Adoption-Specific Therapy

This book presents a structured, evidence-based protocol for mental health treatment for families that adopt vulnerable children from foster care or overseas orphanages. Drawing on their extensive clinical experience as founding members of premier national organizations that serve adopted children, the authors addresses the key presenting behavioral problems of the child and the underlying issues contributing to these problems that uniquely affect adoptive families. These include concerns related to parent child attachment, loss and grief, trauma, the child’s understanding of their adoption “story,” identity development, and birth family connections.