Rachel Staff

Parenting Adopted Teenagers (eBook, ePUB)

Advice for the Adolescent Years

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How can adoptive parents and their teenagers navigate the challenges of the adolescent years?

Full of valuable, grounded advice, this guide will help parents to understand the impact of early trauma on a child's development and the specific nature of the changes that occur during adolescence. With tips for coping with common problems, it combines first-hand accounts from professionals, parents and teenagers themselves. It also covers essential topics such as: family and peer relationships, developing healthy intimate relationships, emerging identity issues, and contacting birth family.

Accessible and honest, Parenting Adopted Teenagers is an invaluable resource for adoptive parents as well as professionals working with them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784500696
• Artikelnr.: 44758758

Autorenporträt

Rachel Staff is a senior therapeutic social worker for Adoptionplus as well as an independent social worker and trainer. Rachel has specialised in adoption and adoption support for the last 12 years. She currently runs training and support groups for parents of adopted teenagers as well as working with teenagers themselves.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. About Adoptionplus. Note on the Text. Introduction. 1.
Key Emotional Themes. 2. Behaviours and 'Ways of Being'. 3. Approaches and
Strategies for Managing the Emotional Roller Coaster. 4. Mental Health
Provision for Adopted Adolescents. 5. Changing Relationships. 6. Emerging
Identity. 7. Peer Relationships and Early Intimate Relationships. 8.
Contact and the Adolescent Years. 9. Parents Come First - the Importance of
Parent Support. Conclusion.