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and in the lower left hand corner, add your email address.
This weekly electronic newsletter will help you stay current
on many of the issues relevant to this course.
There are other electronic newsletters which we will also
recommend to you throughout the course – which we
will be asking you to critique and to critically analyze.
Sign up for these two: emag@adoptionweek.com
and infor@adoptionforum.org.
We will spend the first 15 minutes of each session critically
discussing these newsletters, please come prepared for
each class to discuss these.
Although
no one is likely to read everything that is on the reading
list, students are advised to read in sufficient depth
to appreciate and understand the impact of multiple
factors on seeking and delivering assistance. Experience
has demonstrated that students who are more widely read,
and who incorporate their reading into their work, practice
more competently.
Texts
The
following books should be purchased via amazon.com
or barnesandnoble.com,
they are essential for every adoption competent
practitioner’s collection:
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Required Texts:
Javier,
R.A., Baden, A., Biafora, F.A., & Camacho-Gingerich,
A. (2007). Handbook of adoption: Implications for
researchers, practitioners, and families. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
Mallon,
G.P. & Hess, P. (2005). Child welfare for
the 21st century: A Handbook of policies,
practices, and programs. New York: Columbia
University.
Pavao, J.M. (2005). The family of adoption. Boston: Beacon
Press.
Recommended Texts:
Brodzinsky,
D. M., Schechter, M. D., & Marantz, R. (1992).
Being adopted: The lifelong search for
self.
NY: Anchor Books.
Eldridge,
S. (1999). Twenty things adopted kids wish their
adoptive parents knew. NY: Delta.
Fahlberg,
V. (1994). A Child’s Journey Through
Placement. Indianapolis, IN:
Perspectives Press.
Keck,
G.C., and Kupecky, R.M. (1998). Adopting the Hurt
Child. Indianapolis, IN: Navpress
Publishing Group.
McCreight,
B. (2002). Parenting your adopted older child.
Oakland, CA: New Harbinger
Publications.
First
Session:
Overview: Changing Trends in Foster Care and Adoption
Chapters 1-4,
and Foreword in Handbook of Adoption.
Child Welfare League of America. (2000). Standards of Excellence for Adoption Services,
revised ed. Washington,
DC: Child
Welfare League of America.
Fester, J. (2005). Substance abuse
issues in the family. In G. Mallon and P. Hess (Eds.)
Child welfare for the twenty-first century: A handbook
of practices, policies, and programs (pp. 335-348).
New York: Columbia University Press.
Groza, V. et al. (2005). Overview of adoption.
In G. Mallon and P. Hess (Eds.) Child welfare for
the twenty-first century: A handbook of practices, policies,
and programs (pp. 432-451). New York: Columbia
University
Press.
Kirk, D. (1985). Adoptive kinship:
A modern institution in need of reform.
Toronto:
Ben Simon
Mallon, G.P. & Hess, P. (Eds.). (2005). Introduction (pp. 1- 9). In Child
welfare for the twenty-first century: A handbook of
practices, policies, and programs. New
York: Columbia University Press.
Mallon, G.P. (2005). Facilitating
permanency for older adolescents in foster care: Toolbox
for youth permanency .
Washington, DC:
Child Welfare League of America.
McGowan, B. (2005). Historical evolution of child welfare services. In G. Mallon
and P. Hess (Eds.) Child welfare for the twenty-first
century: A handbook of practices, policies, and programs
(pp. 10-48). New York:
Columbia
University
Press.
Postmus, J. (2005). Domestic violence
in child welfare. In G. Mallon and P. Hess (Eds.)
Child welfare for the twenty-first century: A handbook
of practices, policies, and programs (pp. 355-372).
New York: Columbia University Press.
Renne, J., &
Mallon. G. (2005).
Facilitating permanency for youth.
In G. Mallon and P. Hess (Eds.) Child welfare for
the twenty-first century: A handbook of practices, policies,
and programs (pp. 488-503). New
York: Columbia
University
Press.
Second Session:
Core
Clinical Issues in Adoption/Adoption Family Systems
Chapters 5, 6, 7, 18, 19 & 20 in Adoption Handbook
Brodzinsky, D. M., Schechter, M. D., &
Marantz, R. (1992). Being adopted:
The lifelong search for self. NY: Anchor Books.
Pavao, J. (1992).
Normative crises in the development
of the adoptive family. Adoption Therapist,
3(2): 1-4.
Pavao, J.M. (2005). The
family of adoption.
Boston: Beacon Press.
Third
Session:
Pre
and Post Adoption Issues for Birthparents and Families
and for Adoptive Parents and Families, Including the
Impact of Infertility on Adoption
Chapters 22, 24 & 27 in the Adoption Handbook
Baran, A. & Panor, R. (1993). Lethal
Secrets: The Psychology of Donor Insemination: Problems
and Solutions. NY: Warner Books.
Ceballo, R., Lansford, J.E., Abbey, A., & Stewart, A.J.
(2004).
Gaining a child: Comparing the experiences of biological parents,
adoptive parents and stepparents. Family Relations,
53 (1), 34-48.
Daniels, K.R.
(1994). Adoption and donor insemination: Factors influencing
couples' choices. Child Welfare. Vol. 73 (1), 5-14.
Edelstein,
S.B., Burge, D., & Waterman, J. (2002). Older children in preadoptive homes: Issues before termination of parental rights.
Child Welfare. Vol.
81 (2), 101-121.
Festinger, T. (2005). Adoption disruption.
In G. Mallon and P. Hess (Eds.) Child welfare for
the twenty-first century: A handbook of practices, policies,
and programs (pp. 452-468). New
York: Columbia University Press.
Ells, W.S. (1995). The Adoption
Reader: Birth Mothers, Adoptive Mothers & Adopted
Daughters Tell Their Stories. New
York: Avalon Publishing Group.
Fessler, A. (2006). The girls
who went away: The
hidden history of women who surrendered children for
adoption in the decades before Roe v. Wade.
London: Penguin
Press
Gravelle, K. &
Fischer, S. (1993). Where Are My Birth Parents? A
Guide for Teenage Adoptees. New York: Walker & Co.
Gritter, J.L. (2000). Life givers: Framing the birthparent experience
in open. Washington, DC:
CWLA.
Gritter, J.L. (1997). The spirit of open adoption.
Washington, DC: CWLA.
Hern, K. & Carlson E.M. (1999). Reunion: A Year in Letters Between a Birthmother
And the Daughter She Couldn’t Keep. New York: Avalon Publishing Group.
Hollingsworth, L. (2005). Birth mothers whose parental rights are terminated. In
G. Mallon and P. Hess (Eds.) Child welfare for the
twenty-first century: A handbook of practices, policies,
and programs (pp. 469-481). New York: Columbia
University
Press.
Hughes, A. (1999). Soul Connection: Memoir of a Birthmother’s
Healing Journey. Green Bay,
WI: Otto
Bay
Books
Jones, M.B. (1993). Birthmothers:
Women Who Relinquish Babies for Adoption Tell Their
Stories. Chicago: Chicago
Review Press.
Kane, B. (1999). Thank You Son, For
Finding Me: A Birthmother’s Story. Fairfield CT.: Aslan
Publishing.
Marsh, M., & Ronner,
W. (1996). The Empty Cradle: Infertility in America from Colonial
Times to the Present. Baltimore:
Johns
Hopkins University
Press.
Mason, M.M. 1995). Out of the shadows: Birthfathers’
stories.
Edina, MN:
O.J. Howard Publishing.
Mason, A. Skolnick, and S.D. Sugarman,
(Eds.), All Our Families: New Policies for a New Century
(pp. 236-255). New York:
Oxford University
Press.
May, E. T. (1995). Barren in the Promised Land: Childless Americans and the Pursuit
of Happiness. New York: Basic Books.
Schaefer, C. (1991). The Other Mother: A Woman’s Love for
the Child She Gave Up for Adoption.
New York: Soho
Press.
Solinger, R. (1992).
Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy
and Race Before Rose V. Wade. New York: Routledge.
Wadia-Ells, S. (Ed.).
(1995). The Adoption
Reader: Birth Mothers, Adoptive Mothers and Adopted
Daughters Tell Their Stories. Seattle:
Seal Press.
Young, L. (1954). Out of Wedlock: A Study of the Problems
of the Unmarried Mother and Her Child.
New York: McGraw-Hill.
Fourth
& Fifth Sessions:
Assessing,
Intervening and Creating a Treatment Plan
Assessment,
Diagnosis, and Intervention: Attachment and Bonding
Assessment,
Diagnosis, and Intervention: Mental Health and Neurological
Disorders
Chapters 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, & 31, in Adoption Handbook
Brodzinsky, D.M., Smith, D.W.,
& Brodzinsky, A. (1998). Children’s adjustment to adoption developmental and clinical issues.
Thousand Oaks,
CA: Sage.
Fahlberg, V. (1994). A
Child’s Journey Through Placement. Indianapolis,
IN: Perspectives Press.
Keck, G.C., and Kupecky,
R.M. (1998). Adopting the Hurt Child. Indianapolis,
IN: Navpress
Publishing Group.
Sixth
Session:
Impact
of Abuse and Neglect on Child Development
Chapters 19, 20, & 21 in Mallon & Hess Book
Alaggia, R. & Krishenbaum,
S. (2005). Speaking the unspeakable: Exploring the impact
of family dynamics on child sexual abuse disclosures.
Families in Society, 86 (2), 227-234.
Meyerson, L.A., Long P.J., Miranda, R. Jr. & Marx, B.P.
(2002). The influence of childhood sexual abuse,
physical abuse, family environment, and gender on the
psychological adjustment of adolescents. Child
Abuse and Neglect. Vol. 26 (4), 387-405.
Pardeck, J.T. (2004).
Treating child abuse and neglect with family therapy
intervention. Family Therapy. 31 (1), 17-32.
Scannapieco, M. & Connell-Carrick,
K. (2002). Focus on the first years: An eco-developmental assessment of child
neglect for children 0 to 3 years of age. Children
and Youth Services Review. Vol. 24 (8), 601-621.
Promoting
Positive Sexual Development after Abuse and Neglect
Anderson, L.E.,
Wesston, E.A.,
Doueck, H.J., & Krause, D.J.
(2002).
The child-centered social worker and the sexually abused
child: Pathway to healing. Social Work.47 (4),
368-378.
Avery, L. Massat,
C.R., & Lundy, M. (2000). Posttraumatic stress and mental health functioning of sexually abused
children. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal,17
(1). 19-34.
Kesssler, M.R.G., Nelson, B.S., Jurich, A.P. & White, M.B. (2004). Clinical decision-making strategies of
marriage and family therapists in the treatment of childhood
sexual abuse survivors. The American
Journal of Family Therapy. Vol. 32 (1), 1-10.
Levenson, J.S., & Morin, J.W. (2006). Risk assessment in child sexual abuse cases. Child Welfare. Vol. 85 (1), 59- 82.
Rosenthal,
S, Feiring, C. & Taska,
L. (2003). Emotional support and adjustment over a
year’s time following sexual abuse discovery.
Child Abuse and Neglect. Vol. 27 (6) 641-661.
Walrath, C., Ybarra, M., Holden,
E.W., Liao, Q., Santiago,
R., & Leaf, P. (2003). Children with reported histories of sexual abuse: utilizing multiple
perspectives to understand clinical and psychosocial
profiles. Child Abuse and Neglect,
27 (6) 509-524.
Walter, L.,
Pavkov T.W., Casanova G.M. & Wetchler J.L. (2005). Do American families differ in their
definitions of child sexual abuse? The
American Journal of Family Therapy.
33(2), 147-166.
Seventh
Session:
Child
Centered and Sensitive Treatment in Adoption
Backhaus,
K. A. (1989). Training mental health
practitioners in postadoption work. Child Welfare.
68 (1), 61-68.
Clegg, P., & Toll, K. (1996). Videotape and the Memory Visit: A Living Lifebook for Adopted Children. Child Welfare. 75
(4), 311-319.
Cowan, A.B. (2004). New
strategies to promote the adoption of older children
out of foster care. Children
and Youth Services Review. 26 (11), 1007-1020.
McCreight, B. (2002).
Parenting your adopted older
child. Oakland, CA:
New Harbinger Publications.
Petr, C.G. (2004). Social work with children
and their families. NY: Oxford
Press. Chapter 2: Social work in child welfare settings;
Chapter 5: Family-Centered Practice; Chapter 6: Strengths
Perspective.
Rose, S.R., & Fatout, M.F. (2003).
Social work practice with children
& adolescents. Boston:
Allyn & Bacon. Chapter 10 Methods and practices
in child welfare agencies.
Eighth
Session:
Clinical
Practice with Diverse Children, Youth and Families
Chapters 8,
9, 10, 11, & 23 in Adoption Handbook.
Barth, R.P.,
Webster, D. II, & Lee, S. (2002). Adoption of American
Indian children: Implications for implementing the Indian
child welfare and adoption and safe families acts. Children
and Youth Services Review. 24 (3),
139-158.
Brooks, D. & James, S. (2003). Willingness
to adopt black foster children: Implications for child
welfare policy and recruitment of adoptive families.
Children and Youth Services Review.
25 (5/6), 463-489.
Billingsley, A., & Giovannoni,
J.. (1972). Children of the Storm: Black Children
and American Child Welfare. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich.
Crumbley, J. (1999). Transracial
adoption and foster care: Practice issues for professionals.
Washington, D.C.:
CWLA Press.
Cross, T., & Fox, K. (2005).
Customary adoption as a resource for
Native American and Alaskan Native children.
In G. Mallon and P. Hess (Eds.) Child welfare for
the twenty-first century: A handbook of practices, policies,
and programs (pp. 423-431). New
York: Columbia University Press.
Cox Soon-Keum,
S. (1999). Voices from another place: A collection of works
from a generation born in Korea
and adopted in other countries. St.
Paul, MN:
Yeoung & Yeoung Books Company
Everett, J.E., Chipungu, S.S., & Leashore,
B.R. (Eds.). (2004). Child
welfare revisited: An Africentric
perspective. New Brunswick, NJ:
Rutgers
University Press.
Jeong Trenka, J. (2003). The language of blood. St.
Paul, MN:
Greywolf Press.
Mallon, G. (2006). Lesbian and gay foster and adoptive parents: Recruiting, assessing, and
supporting an untapped resource for children and youth
in America’s child
welfare system. Washington, DC:
Child Welfare League of America.
Mallon, G.P. (2004). Gay men choosing parenthood. New
York: Columbia
University
Press.
Martin. A. (1993).
The lesbian and gay parenting handbook: Creating
and raising our families. New
York: Harper Perennial.
Roberts, D. (2002). Shattered bonds: The color
of child welfare. New York: Basic Books.
Smith-McKeever,
T.C. & McRoy,
R.G. (2005).
The role of private adoption agencies in facilitating African American
adoptions. Families in Society.86
(4). 533-540.
Smith-McKeever,
C. (2006). Adoption satisfaction among
African-American families adopting African-American
children. Children and Youth
Services Review. 28 (7), 825-840.
Steinberg, G. & Hall, B. (2000). Inside
Transracial Adoption: Strength-Based, Culture-Sensitizing
Parenting Strategies for Inter-Country or Domestic Adoptive
Families that Don’t Match. Indianapolis,
IN.: Perspective Press.
Stewart, P.E. (2004). Afrocentric approaches
to working With African American families. Families in Society, 85, (2), 217-224.
Ninth
Session:
Search
and Reunion Issues for Adoption Triad Members
Chapters 12 & 22 in Adoption Handbook
Askin, J. (1998).
Search: A Handbook for Adoptees
and Birthparents. Westport,
CT.: Greenwood
Publishing Group Inc.
Bailey J.J.
& Giddens, L.N.
(2001). The Adoption
Reunion Survival Guide: Preparing for the Search, Reunion,
and Beyond. Westport,
CT.: Greenwood Publishing Group Inc.
Dorner, P.M. (1997).
How to Open an Adoption: A Guide for Parents and
Birthparents of Minors. Royal
Oak, MI.: Insight.
Lifton, B.J. (1988). Lost and found: The adoption experience.
NY: Harper & Row.
Lifton, B.J. (1994). Journey of the adopted
self. NY: Basic Books.
Lifton, B.J. (1998). Twice Born: Memoirs of an
Adopted Daughter. New
York: St. Martins Press.
Lifton, B.J. (1986). I’m Still Me.
New York: Random House
Children’s Books.
Speirs, C.C., Duder,
S., Sullivan, R., Kirstein, S., Propst,
M., & Meade, D. (2005). Mediated reunions in adoption:
Findings from an evaluation study. Child
Welfare. 84 (6), 843-866.
Tenth
Session:
Clinical
Practice/Therapeutic Strategies with Adoptive Triad
Members
Chapters 13, 14, 16, 17, 21, & 33 in Adoption Handbook
Casey Family Services. (1995). Post
adoption service: Emerging themes, issues, interventions. New
Haven, CT:
Casey Family Services.
Eldridge, S. (1999). Twenty
Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew.
NY: Delta.
Melina, L. R. (2002). Raising adopted children: Practical,
reassuring advice for every adoptive parent.
New York: Quill.
Smith,
S.L. & Howard, J.A. (1999). Promoting Successful Adoptions.
Newbury Park, CA:
Sage.
Smith, S., & Howard, J.A. (2003). After adoption: The needs of adopted youth. Washington, DC: CWLA.
