SAGE Books - Promoting Successful Adoptions: Practice with Troubled Families

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This book offers a clear, well-documented view of troubled adoptive families. It focuses on adoptive families after the legal finalization of the adoption has taken place and is full of case examples, detailed case histories and presentations of various practice strategies.

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Chapter 5: Adoption Means Somebody Loves you and Somebody Doesn't: Separation, Grief, and Attachment Issues in Work with Families

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Susan Livingston Smith
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Jeanne A. Howard
In:Promoting Successful Adoptions: Practice with Troubled Families
Chapter DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452232843.n5
Subject:Social Work - Families
Keywords:adopted children; adoptive parents; attachment; attachment parenting; birth parents; children; closeness

Adoption Means Somebody Loves you and Somebody Doesn't: Separation, Grief, and Attachment Issues in Work with Families

Adoption means somebody loves you and somebody doesn't: Separation, grief, and attachment issues in work with families

An adoption worker reported that when she asked a young client what adoption meant to him, he responded, “Adoption means somebody loves you and somebody ...

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  Smith, S. L., & Howard, J. A. (1999). Adoption means somebody loves you and somebody doesn't: separation, grief, and attachment issues in work with families. In Promoting successful adoptions: Practice with troubled families (pp. 90-125). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781452232843.n5
  
  Smith, Susan L., and Jeanne A. Howard. "Adoption Means Somebody Loves you and Somebody Doesn't: Separation, Grief, and Attachment Issues in Work with Families." In Promoting Successful Adoptions: Practice with Troubled Families, 90-125, Sage Sourcebooks for SSHS the Human Services. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452232843.n5.
  
  Smith, S. L. and Howard, J. A. 1999. Adoption Means Somebody Loves you and Somebody Doesn't: Separation, Grief, and Attachment Issues in Work with Families. In: 1999. Promoting Successful Adoptions: Practice with Troubled Families, Sage Sourcebooks for SSHS the Human Services, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 90-125 Available at: <http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781452232843.n5> [Accessed 5 Dec 2021].
  
  Smith, Susan L. and Jeanne A. Howard. "Adoption Means Somebody Loves you and Somebody Doesn't: Separation, Grief, and Attachment Issues in Work with Families." Promoting Successful Adoptions: Practice with Troubled Families. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 1999, pp. 90-125. SAGE Knowledge. Sage Sourcebooks for SSHS the Human Services. 5 Dec 2021, doi: http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781452232843.n5.
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