Adoption-specific therapy : a guide to helping adopted children and their families thrive / Jill Waterman, Audra K. Langley, Jeanne Miranda, and Debbie B. Riley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waterman, Jill, 1945- author.

Langley, Audra, author.

Miranda, Jeanne, 1950- author.

Riley, Debbie B., author.

Contributor:

American Psychological Association, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adopted children--Counseling of.

Adopted children.

Family counseling.

Adoption--Psychological aspects.

Adoption.

Adoption--psychology.

Family Therapy--methods.

Medical Subjects:

Adoption--psychology.

Family Therapy--methods.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 268 pages)

Other Title:

APA PsycBOOKS.

Place of Publication:

Washington D.C. : American Psychological Association, [2018]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Adoption-specific therapy (ADAPT) was developed from the authors experience in treating children who had been adopted past infancy, either through foster care or internationally. These children had very specific kinds of symptoms and they frequently did not respond to standard evidence-based mental health interventions. This book discusses in the introduction the three kinds of adoption in the United States: domestic infant adoption, international adoption, and foster care adoption and presents the ADAPT curriculum. Dealing with such adoption- and trauma-related issues is necessary to successfully treat the significant behavioral and emotional symptoms that bring adoptive families to seek treatment. ADAPT combines evidence-based child coping strategies and positive parenting approaches with resiliency-focused, trauma-competent, attachment-based treatment that addresses adoption-related issues of parent-child bonding, loss and grief, developmental understanding of adoption dynamics, identity development, and birth family connections. In each of the seven modules of adoption-specific therapy, parents and children meet separately for several sessions and then come together for a family session. The book comprises ten chapters. Chapter one discusses the theoretical and empirical underpinnings of the authors approach. Chapter two presents an overview of ADAPT, including the basic beliefs about adoption, a summary of module content, and who should use this approach and how. Chapters three through nine, present the modules with detailed instructions for therapists on how to use the approach with families, along with a ongoing case example, which illustrates how each session may unfold. Chapter 10 discusses the termination session."-- Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).

Contents:

Foundations

Theoretical and empirical underpinnings of adoption-specific therapy

Overview of adoption-specific therapy

The adapt curriculum

Module 1. trust, positive coping strategies, and behavior management

Module 2. developmental understanding of adoption experience

Module 3. loss and grief issues in adoption

Module 4. attachment/joining with adoptive family

Module 5. search for identity/self-esteem/transracial adoption

Module 6. adoption and the outside world

Module 7. trauma treatment (optional: may be inserted as needed any time after module 1)

Termination session

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2018.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781433829246

143382924X

9781433829406

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