Domestic Adoption Resources
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On this page you will find resources relating to domestic adoption:
- Link to ADHD Resources
Location: Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactive Disorder
Synopsis: Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) is a national non-profit organization founded in 1987 in response to the frustration and sense of isolation experienced by parents and their children with AD/HD.Link to ADHD Resources
Location: www.adhd.com
Synopsis: This website provides pointers on getting help for your child with ADHD. It gives great resources such as your rights, how to be a child's advocate, and educational resources.
- Books Reviewed/Recommended by Gladney Staff & Clients
Title & Author: Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents, by Deborah Gray
Synopsis: Many adopted children come to their families at an older age. Their adoptive parents need help in understanding how prior experiences and changes in caregivers, culture, language, and more can create challenges for children trying to form attachments in their new families. This book provides advice about obtaining a proper diagnosis, building a caring professional team, using various approaches to parenting and teaching, and finding a therapist who is adequately informed, prepared, and experienced.
- Link to Bipolar Disorder Resources
Location: www.adoption.com
Synopsis: This website describes what bipolar disorder is, the symptoms, and treatment options.Link to Bipolar Disorder Resources
Location: National Institute of Mental Health
Synopsis: This site contains specific medical information about Bipolar Disorder.Link to Bipolar Disorder Resources
Location: The Balanced Mind Foundation
Synopsis: The Balanced Mind Foundation guides families raising children with mood disorders to the answers, support and stability they seek.
- Link to Discussion Birth Parents with Child Resources
Location: Family Services Conference Call
Synopsis: As parents, we want the very best for our children. Many of the questions we receive are on how to present difficult subjects about a child's background with the child and, at what age.
- Books Reviewed/Recommended by Gladney Staff & Clients
Title & Author: Breastfeeding the Adopted Baby, by Debra Stewart Peterson
Synopsis: BREASTFEEDING THE ADOPTED BABY gives you all the practical information and emotional support that you need. After reading this book, you will feel informed and confident with your decision to breastfeed your baby.
- Articles Reviewed/Recommended by Gladney Staff & Clients
Title: After Placement
Location: Gladney E-News
Synopsis: I know we all have heard about Post Partum Depression, but what about Post Placement Depression? Post Placement Depression is common for families to experience after placement.Link to Depression Resources
Location: www.adoption.com
Synopsis: This link provides information about childhood depressive disorders, common symptoms, how to diagnose, treatment, medication, and advice to parents.
- Articles by Gladney Staff & Clients
Title: Infertility: How To Respond When Those Closest to You Are Clueless?
Location: Gladney Articles
Synopsis: "Nobody seems to understand that everything I do, every single day, is related to trying to get pregnant," a woman stated in a discussion group to help women cope. Last spring, I had an opportunity to participate in a discussion with a group of women, all courageously sharing their experiences of struggling through varying stages of infertility-related challenges.
- Subject: Local Medical Resources
Description: Gladney Family Association Referrals
Synopsis: Gladney Family Association provides names of local professional resources for specific medical referrals. Please send an email to Gladney Family Association Referral requesting a referral in your area.Subject: Local Educational Resources
Description: Gladney Family Association Referrals
Synopsis: Gladney Family Association provide names of local professional resources for specific educational referrals such as day cares, schools, tutors, SAT coaching. Please send an email to Gladney Family Association Referral requesting a referral in your area.Subject: Local Psychological/Counseling Resources
Description: Gladney Family Association Referrals
Synopsis: Gladney Family Association provide names of local professional resources for psychological/counseling referrals. Please send an email to Gladney Family Association Referral requesting a referral in your area.Subject: Other Referral Services
Description: Gladney Family Association Referrals
Synopsis: Gladney Family Association provide names of local services such as babysitters. Please send an email to Gladney Family Association Referral requesting a referral in your area.
- Books Reviewed/Recommended by Gladney Staff & Clients
Title & Author: The Adoption Option Complete Handbook, Chris Adamec
Synopsis: This handbook gives you everything you need to adopt - and answers questions you might be afraid to ask. Details of a myriad of adoption resources available in the U.S., Canada, and abroad.
- Subject:The "What to Expect" in Adoption
Title: Adoption Parenting: Creating a Toolbox, Building Connections
Location: Amazon.com
Synopsis: This is "What to Expect" for the adoptive family. It is a book you won’t read all at once, but come back to again and again as your child’s awareness of who they are and how they came to join your family develops and your awareness of how to parent them evolves. Each person comes to parenting from a different place and the needs their children have are unique. With over 100 contributors, this book allows the reader to choose which tools are helpful for their particular situation and which are not. This isn't a book about what you have to do to parent, but about perspective, awareness, and understanding that overlays how you parent. This book is designed to help each of us become the best parents for our children and to offer support and connections for families on the journey of adoption parenting!Articles Reviewed/Recommended by Gladney Staff & Clients
Title: Raising Confident Sons Who Have Respect for Others
Location: News Articles
Author Bio: Peggy Drexler, Ph.D., a research psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychology at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, is the author of “Raising Boys Without Men” (Rodale, 2005) and a former gender scholar at Stanford University. For more information visit www.peggydrexler.com.Articles Reviewed/Recommended by Gladney Staff & Clients
Subject: Parenting
Title: Back to School: Tips for School Success
Location: Gladney's Bright Futures Newsletter
Synopsis: What can you do to ease your child's school days? How can you empower your child and his teacher? Do you tell the teacher that he is adopted? How do you handle adoption-related assignments? Should you help his teacher become more adoption friendly?
- Books Reviewed/Recommended by Gladney Staff & Clients
Title & Author: Adoption in Schools: Resources for Parents and Teachers, by Lansing Wood and Nancy Ng
Synopsis: From tots to teens, school can often be a challenge for the adopted child. Sometimes it's "simply" a matter of educating the educators about adoption, diversity, inclusion, language, and special educational needs. Sometimes you need to go further and tackle deeply-held traditional practices and policies. Either way, this book will help you and your child's teachers make school a better place for your adopted child.Books Reviewed/Recommended by Gladney Staff & Clients
Title & Author: One Wonderful You, by Francie Portnoy
Synopsis: For an adopted child, forming a healthy identity requires incorporating two family legacies into his or her self-definition. ONE WONDERFUL YOU shows how the child is a blend of two families: the physical traits and many of the personality traits that come from the birth family plus the nurturing contributions from the adoptive family, combining to form a complete person. This is a positive, feel-good book for adopted children.
- Books Reviewed/Recommended by Gladney Staff & Clients
Title & Author: Inside Transracial Adoption, by Gail Steinberg and Beth Hall
Synopsis: The authors provide reactive, confident, pro-active, and provocative guidance both for prospective parents who are considering transracial adoption for the first time and also for those who are experienced veterans. This book offers direction for building close, loving, and very real families consisting of individuals who are proud and culturally competent members of differing races.
Please note: Referral lists are provided by Gladney Family Association families who have used the services of these professionals, and not a recommendation of these professionals by the Gladney Center. The links are provided as useful resources and not recommendation of the site, person, or product.
This page last updated on Saturday September 24, 2011
