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Making Room in Our Hearts: Keeping Family Ties Through Open Adoption
by Duxbury, Micky | PB | VeryGood
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- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller notes
- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780415955027
- Subject Area
- Family & Relationships, Psychology
- Publication Name
- Making Room in Our Hearts : Keeping Family Ties Through Open Adoption
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Item Length
- 10 in
- Subject
- Psychotherapy / Couples & Family, Mental Health, Adoption & Fostering
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Perfect
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5 in
- Item Weight
- 13.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 7 in
- Number of Pages
- 192 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN-10
0415955025
ISBN-13
9780415955027
eBay Product ID (ePID)
53733158
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Publication Name
Making Room in Our Hearts : Keeping Family Ties Through Open Adoption
Language
English
Subject
Psychotherapy / Couples & Family, Mental Health, Adoption & Fostering
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Family & Relationships, Psychology
Format
Perfect
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
13.6 Oz
Item Length
10 in
Item Width
7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2006-014125
Reviews
""Open adoption is not a trend - it is the wave of the future. Making Room In Our Hearts helps us prepare for that future by providing an ethical and child-centered perspective as it puts a human face on open adoption. You will meet real people revealing, as well as struggling, with the ups and downs of these complex relationships. This book fills an important need by providing adoption professionals, birth and adoptive families and their extended familial networks with a wealth of practical and personal information." ." (Brenda Romanchik, MSW. Open Adoption educator, Birth Parent advocate and Director of Insight:Open Adoption Resources and Support.), "Open adoption is not a trend - it is the wave of the future. Making Room In Our Hearts helps us prepare for that future by providing an ethical and child-centered perspective as it puts a human face on open adoption. You will meet real people revealing, as well as struggling, with the ups and downs of these complex relationships. This book fills an important need by providing adoption professionals, birth and adoptive families and their extended familial networks with a wealth of practical and personal information." Brenda Romanchik, MSW. Open Adoption educator, Birth Parent advocate, and Director of Insight:Open Adoption Resources and Support. "Every once in a while, a book comes along that can make an honest difference in the understanding of an important subject -- and, therefore, in people's lives. I'm delighted to say that 'Making Room in Our Hearts' is one of those books. It takes on open adoption, which remains too poorly understood despite its growing prevalence, and explains it in the best possible way: through the stories of those who live it. The result is simultaneously touching and enlightening; it's a wonderful combination that I hope and believe will make an honest difference in the continued evolution of adoption from the stigmatized, secretive process that it used to be intoone that is honest, healthy and better serves all of its participants, especially the children." Adam Pertman, Executive Director Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute "I have been anxiously awaiting the release of Making Room in our Hearts , by Micky Duxbury so that I could recommend it to every adopting family I have the forture of consulting with. Never has there been a volume so compassionate, inspiring and informative about why child-centered, open adoption is the correct paradigm for today's adoptions. Ms. Duxbury understands that openness in adoption is not a quantifiable obligation, but a quality that can be cultivated and resides in the heart of family members touched by adoption." Leslie Foge, MA, MFT, Adoption Psychotherapist, Co-author of The Third Choice: A Woman's Guide for Placing a Child for Adoption, Making Room in Our Hearts is an authentic, inside account of the open adoption experience. It offers an opportunity to listen in as the participants of adoption describe the delights and challenges of their journeys. Openness never shines brighter than when it is expressed in the actual words of those who live it day in and day out. - James Gritter, author of The Spirit of Open Adoption, and The Lifegivers: Framing the Birth Parent Experience in Adoption I have been anxiously awaiting the release of Making Room in our Hearts, by Micky Duxbury so that I could recommend it to every adopting family I have the fortune of consulting with. Never has there been a volume so compassionate, inspiring and informative about why child-centered, open adoption is the correct paradigm for today's adoptions. Ms. Duxbury understands that openness in adoption is not a quantifiable obligation, but a quality that can be cultivated and resides in the heart of family members touched by adoption. - Leslie Foge, MA, MFT, Adoption Psychotherapist and Co-author of The Third Choice: A Woman's Guide for Placing a Child for Adoption Having been born under the closed adoption system some forty-something years ago, it was a profoundly moving experience for me to read about families'¬"birth and adoptive families'¬"who have come to embrace openness for their children. I believe that the adoption community is moving in a brave and important new direction, and that Micky Duxbury's book will provide a vital map for families and professionals alike. I am grateful for this work and only wish that it had been the standard of practice while I was growing up. - Susan Ito, adult adoptee and co-editor of A Ghost At Heart's Edge: Stories & Poems of Adoption This book is a valuable inclusion as an educational tool in the arena of open adoption '¬¦ that can build understanding among those personally involved with adoption, considering adoption, professionals and anyone else who is interested in this topic. Additionally, it offers support to those already in open adoptions who want to hear about how this experience has evolved for others as the years have passed. - Patricia Martinez Dorner, MA, LPC, LMFT, Co-author of Children of Open Adoption and author of How to Open an Adoption: A Guide for Parents and Birthparents of Minors As adoption makes a paradigm shift away from secrecy into face-to-face relationships, families and professionals are floundering. Micky Duxbury's Making Room in our Hearts will be hailed as a hands-on open adoption manual that encompasses the process from pre-birth, throughout the child's growing years and even into lift-off as the child becomes an adult. Using a common sense approach, the author dispels myths while answering navigational questions that occur in open relationships. The timing for release of Making Room in our Hearts coincides with a great need for a comprehensive reference and guide to the process. - Mary Martin Mason, Information Clearinghouse Coordinator, Minnesota Adoption Resource Network, Minneapolis
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
362.734
Table Of Content
Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1: My Family's Story Chapter 2: Into the Heart of Child-Centered Open Adoption Chapter 3: Understanding Each Other's Fears and Concerns Chapter 4: "This Baby Belongs to Itself and the More People Who Love It, The Better" Chapter 5: Becoming Extended Family Chapter 6: Openness in the Public Adoption System Chapter 7: Opening Closed Adoptions Chapter 8: Unique Families - Unique Challenges Chapter 9: Making It Work Chapter 10: A Call For Change Closing Thoughts Resources References
Synopsis
Adopted persons face challenges their entire lives as they struggle to answer the most basic question: Who am I? The hope of open adoption is that adopted children will develop stronger identities if they have the opportunity to develop healthy ongoing relationships with their families of origin. Making Room in Our Hearts offers an intimate look at how these relationships evolve over time, with real-life stories from families who have experienced open adoption first-hand. This book helps both adoptive and birth parents address their fears and concerns, while offering them the support to put the child's psychological and spiritual needs at the center of adoption. Based on interviews with more than one hundred adopted children, birth and adoptive parents, extended families, professionals and experts, the book is an effective and invaluable resource for those considering open adoption, those experiencing it, and professionals in the field. Openness has altered the landscape of adoption, and Making Room in Our Hearts will help us catch up to the reality that is open adoption today., Making Room in Our Hearts is an effective and invaluable resource for those considering open adoption, those experiencing it, and professionals in the field. Openness has altered the landscape of adoption, and Making Room in Our Hearts will help us catch up to the reality that is open adoption today., Although adoption has never ceased to be a topic of wide interest, there is little material that covers the option of open adoption, which calls for regular contact between the adoptive and birth parents and the child. While closed adoption often prompts anguish and confusion over the adoptee's identity, open adoption allows the child access to his/her birth parents. Making Room in Our Hearts shows that children have a right to know and claim both their biological and adoptive families, rather than having to choose between the two or have no choice in the matter at all. Making Room in Our Hearts covers the basic issues of open adoption while also including real-life, relatable stories of those with experience making and living through these challenging decisions. Duxbury addresses common fears and concerns, gives attention to siblings and other extended family, and discusses how adoption has changed and how it will continue to change in the future. Based on the author's interviews with over one hundred adoption professionals/ experts, birth and adoptive parents, extended family, and adopted children, the book provides profiles of families from a variety of backgrounds and situations and includes a host of viewpoints of those with specific knowledge. By showing how open adoption works for others, those who are currently considering it can see how it may work for them. This cutting edge book will help the readers more fully understand the benefits, concerns, and overall process of a child-centered open adoption. Duxbury has conducted extensive research on the topic, making this an effective resource for those considering open adoption, those experiencing it, and professionalsworking with adoptive and birth parents. "Making Room In Our Hearts is an authentic, inside account of the open adoption experience. It offers an opportunity to listen in as the participants of adoption describe the delights and challenges of their journeys. Openness never shines brighter than when it is expressed in the actualwords of those who live it day in and day out." James Gritter, author of The Spirit of Open Adoption, and The Lifegivers: Framing the Birth Parent Experience in Adoption.
LC Classification Number
HV875.55.D89 2007
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