Talking with Young Children About Adoption - Hardcover

Watkins, Ms. Mary; Fisher M.D., Dr. Susan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300051786 ISBN 13: 9780300051780

Publisher: Yale University Press, 1993

Synopsis

Offers practical advice on how to tell children they are adopted, shares accounts by twenty adoptive parents, and anticipates what problems might arise

About this title

About the Author:

Mary Watkins, Ph.D., is a psychologist in private practice in Littleton, Massachusetts, a teacher at the Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, and the author of Waking Dreams and Invisible Guests: The Development of Imaginal Dialogues. Susan M. Fisher, M.D., is a psychoanalyst and a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, and is also coauthor of To Do No Harm: DES and the Dilemmas of Modern Medicine.

From Publishers Weekly:

This book, designed to help adoptive parents, as well as professional counselors and therapists, deal with questions youngsters ask about their adoption, contains revealing conversations between parents and their children, aged two to 10, from 20 families of all kinds--single, lesbian and interracial, among them. Psychologist Watkins ( Waking Dream ) and psychoanalyst Fisher (coauthor of To Do No Harm ) are themselves adoptive mothers. Stressing that "the adoptive family integrates diversity," and that "children come into families in different ways," the authors seek to prepare parents to acquaint children with their origins through frank talk, stories and play. The children's contribution in the book shows them ready to face reality, for the most part; their comments are probing, humorous and touching.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0300051786
• ISBN 13: 9780300051780
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272