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A Guide to Search and Reunion in Adoption

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NJ ARCH has created a useful handbook to help you with your adoption needs. This handbook covers a very important issue in adoption – search and reunion. To view and print an electronic, PDF version of this handbook, please click on the handbook cover to the left. If you would like to request a hard-copy… [read more]

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A Need to Know: Enhancing Adoption Competence Among Mental Health Professionals

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For a variety of reasons, adopted individuals and their families are more likely to use mental health services than is the general population. Helping adoptive parents manage these life complexities for themselves and their children can be a challenge, often requiring the help of professionals. Adopted individuals, as children and through their life cycles, can… [read more]

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Accreditation and Adoption Accredited Bodies: General Principle and Guide to Good Practice Guide 2

Accreditation and adoption accredited bodies

Published by Family Law A publishing imprint of Jordan Publishing Limited 21 St Thomas Street Bristol BSI 6JS For the Hague Conference on Private International Law Permanent Bureau 6, Scheveningseweg 2517 KT The Hague The Netherlands Telephone +31(0)70 363 3303 fax +31(0)70 360 4867 e-mail secretariat@hcch.net website http://www.hcch.net © Hague Conference on Private International Law… [read more]

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Additional Scholarships

Additional scholarships
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Adopting as a Single Parent

Adopting as a single parent

Many single people are choosing to adopt, reflecting national trends toward greater acceptance of nontraditional families. Nationally, approximately one-quarter of children and youth, or about 22 million, are growing up in single-parent households.  In 2011, nearly one-third of adoptions from foster care were completed by unmarried people. This included adoptions by 1,400 single men and… [read more]

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Adoption 101

Adoption 101

This adoption awareness curriculum has been designed to help adoptive parent group leaders and others train child welfare, medical, legal, education, and mental health professionals, and other community members to be more responsive to the needs of adopted children and to work more effectively with their families. North American Council on Adoptable Children 970 Raymond… [read more]

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Adoption Advocate

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Adoption creates a split between a person’s biology and biography, and openness is an essential way to help adoptees heal this split.1 This article covers what openness means in the context of adoption and how adoptive parents can, through openness, help adoptees integrate and heal. There are three shifts adoptive parents can make—supported by adoption… [read more]

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Adoption Advocate

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Adoption Advocate No 184

Adoption Advocate No. 166
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Adoption Advocate Prenatal Stress, Preverbal Trauma, and Developmental Trajectories: The Importance of the Attachment Relationship

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Adoption Advocate Prenatal Stress, Preverbal Trauma, and Developmental Trajectories: The Importance of the Attachment Relationship The impact of prenatal stress and preverbal trauma on developmental trajectories is both a topic of education and area of treatment focus in my clinical practice. As a specialist in infant and early childhood development, as well as trauma and… [read more]

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