Adoption Lifebook: A Bridge to Your Child's Beginnings - Softcover

Cindy Probst

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0971749604 ISBN 13: 9780971749603

Publisher: Boston Adoption Press, 2007

Synopsis

'Adoption Lifebook: A Bridge to Your Child's Beginnings' is a new, easy-to-read workbook for international adoptive parents and waiting parents who wish to document their children's early lives for them, in the form of a lifebook. Through exercises and text, readers become more comfortable telling children the truth about their beginnings while emphasizing their strengths and resilience. Adoption specialist Cindy Probst guides parents through such topics as talking with children about their birth parents and orphanage or foster care experience, answering "why was I adopted?" questions, and using empowering adoption language. 'Adoption Lifebook: A Bridge to Your Child's Beginnings'is an invaluable resource for helping children feel good about who they are.

A portion of the proceeds from the sale of 'Adoption Lifebook: A Bridge to Your Child's Beginnings' will be donated to international orphanage projects.

About this title

About the Author:

Cindy Probst, MEd, MSW, LCSW believes that the stories of children's beginnings belong to them. She has a particular talent for framing difficult truths in ways that are empowering to children, and for teaching their parents to do the same. Cindy works with parents, both individually and in groups, to help them think about how to share the stories of their children's early lives with them, in ways that nourish the spirit, while also honoring the truth. Cindy, an adoption specialist, is also an adoptive parent.

Review:

"...Cindy's approach is warm and supportive, while imparting a wealth of knowledge about adoption and child development..." -- Joan Clark, Executive Director, ODS Adoption Community of New England

"...Probst will help a generation of children answer their questions. This is a book no adoptive family should be without." -- Susan Caughman, Publisher, Adoptive Families Magazine

"This is a great idea and you have done it beautifully. I can recommend it to adoptive parents and children!" -- T. Berry Brazelton, MD, Professor Emeritus, Harvard Medical School

About this edition

• Publisher: Boston Adoption Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0971749604
• ISBN 13: 9780971749603
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88