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The Adoptee's Journey : From Loss and Trauma to Healing and Empowerment.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Small, Cameron Lee.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adoption--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Adoption.
- Adoptees--Psychology.
- Adoptees.
- Intercountry adoption.
- Interethnic adoption.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (214 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Westmont : InterVarsity Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- Adoption is often framed by happy narratives, but many adoptees struggle with unaddressed trauma. Narrating his own and other adoptees' complex stories, counselor Cameron Lee Small unpacks the history of adoption and the church's influence, helping adoptees regain their agency and identity on a journey of integration and healing.
- Contents:
- Prologue
- Missing Family
- Facing Our History
- Loss and Grief
- Trauma and Recovery
- Processing Our Emotions
- Telling Our Stories
- Identity Development
- Navigating Relationships
- Birth Search and Reunion
- Finding Our Callings.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781514007051
- 1514007053
- OCLC:
- 1430661463
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