TELLING THE TRUTH TO YOUR ADOPTED OR FOSTER CHILD:
Making Sense of the Past



TABLE OF CONTENTS
  1. The power of secrets on family relationships
  2. Truth or consequences: A great debate
  3. Just the facts, Ma'am: Why do children need them?
  4. A fact-finding mission: How to gather what you need to know
  5. Adoption through a child's eyes: Developmental stages
  6. Through a parent's eyes: Core issues, coping styles, and communication
  7. The ten commandments of telling: Principles to consider
  8. Sharing the hard stuff: The adoptive parent's challenge
  9. Tolls of communication between parents and children
  10. Transracial or transcultural adoption: Talking about adoption within a minority family
  11. Kinship foster care and adoption: Telling the truth when it's "all in the family"
  12. Opening a closed adoption for school-age children: Questions most asked by parents
  13. Adolescence -- chronic but not terminal: Keeping lines of communication open
  14. Opening a closed adoption -- The teenage years
  15. Communicating about adoption in the classroom: Teaching the teachers


AUTHOR INFORMATION
Betsy Keefer, with almost 30 years of experience, is a training consultant for the Institute for Human Services. Jayne E. School, author of "The Whole Life Adoption Book" and "Searching for a Past," is an affiliate trainer with over 20 years of experience.
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