| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 269 pages) |
| 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 and joining with the adoptive family -- Module 5. Search for identity and transracial adoption -- Module 6. Adoption and the outside world -- Module 7. Trauma treatment -- Termination session -- References |
| Summary |
This manual presents a structured, evidence-based protocol for mental health treatment for families that adopt vulnerable children |
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"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) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 3, 2018) |
| Subject |
Adopted children -- Counseling of
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Family counseling.
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Adoption -- Psychological aspects
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Adoption -- psychology
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Family Therapy -- methods
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychotherapy -- Child & Adolescent.
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Adoption -- Psychological aspects
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Family counseling
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Langley, Audra, author
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Miranda, Jeanne, 1950- author.
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Riley, Debbie B., author.
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| ISBN |
9781433829406 |
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1433829401 |
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