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1 online resource (216) |
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Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Full, Half, Step, Foster, Adoptive, and Other: The Complex Nature of Sibling Relationships -- 2. Siblings in Foster Care and Adoption: What We Know from Research -- 3. Sibling Connections: The Importance of Nurturing Sibling Bonds in the Foster Care System -- 4. The Experience of Sibling Loss in the Adjustment of Foster and Adopted Children -- 5. The Rights of Siblings in Foster Care and Adoption: A Legal Perspective -- 6. Sibling Issues in Open Adoption Arrangements: Non-biologically Related Adopted Siblings8217; Experiences with Birth-Family Contact -- 7. Keeping Sibling Connection Alive -- 8. The Creation of a False Self: A Survival Strategy for Siblings of Wounded Adopted or Foster Children -- 9. 8220;Suddenly, Sisters!8221;: Sibling Adjustment in Reunion -- 10. Practice Strategies to Preserve Sibling Relationships -- 11. Mental Health Strategies to Support Sibling Relationships: Nonverbal Interventions to Process Trauma and Maintain the Sibling Bond -- 12. Permanency for Siblings in Kinship Families -- Conclusion: What Have We Learned? Where Do We Need to Go? -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- About the Editors and Contributors |
| Summary |
Normally, our relationships with our brothers and sisters are the longest relationships in our lives, outlasting time with our parents, and most marriages today. The sibling relationship is emotionally powerful and critically important, giving us a sense of continuity throughout life. So what happens when a child loses contact not only with his or her parents, but with siblings too? That is what happens in thousands of cases each year inside the child welfare system. Children are surrendered by parents - or taken by the government - and placed in the foster care system. There, they are often separated and sent to different foster families, or adopted by different couples. In this work, a team of top experts details for us how this added separation futher traumatizes children. This stellar team of internationally known researchers - some of whom are themselves adoptees - shares with us hard, poignant, and personal insights, as well as ways we might act to solve this widespread problem. Contributors address not only the importance of nurturing sibling bonds and mental health strategies to support those relationships, but also the legal rights of siblings to be together, as well as issues in international adoptions. Emerging and standing programs to encourage and facilitate adoptions that keep siblings together are featured, as are programs that at least enable them to stay in contact |
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Adopted children.
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Siblings.
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Foster children -- Family relationships
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siblings (people)
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Adopted children -- Family relationships
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Siblings
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Foster children -- Family relationships
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
SILVERSTEIN, DEBORAH.
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SMITH, SUSAN L.
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| ISBN |
1282420747 |
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9781282420748 |
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9780313351440 |
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0313351449 |
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