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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822170703321

Titolo

Siblings in adoption and foster care : traumatic separations and honored connections / / edited by Deborah N. Silverstein and Susan Livingston Smith ; foreword by Adam Pertman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2008

London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2024

ISBN

979-82-16-01461-4

1-282-42074-7

9786612420740

0-313-35144-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SilversteinDeborah N. <1947->

SmithSusan Livingston

Disciplina

362.73085/5

Soggetti

Adopted children - Family relationships

Siblings

Foster children - Family relationships

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Full, half, step, foster, adoptive, and other : the complex nature of sibling relationships / Diane F. Halpern -- Siblings in foster care and adoption : what we know from research / Smith -- Sibling connections : the importance of nurturing sibling bonds in the foster care system / Herrick & Piccus -- The experience of sibling loss in the adjustment of foster and adopted children / Brodzinsky -- The rights of siblings in foster care and adoption : a legal perspective / Freundlich --Sibling issues in open adoption arrangements : non-biologically related adopted siblings' experiences with birthfamily contact / Berge, Green, Grotevant, & McRoy -- Keeping sibling connection alive / Roszia and Roe -- The creation of a false self : a survival strategy for siblings of wounded adopted or foster children / Trout -- Suddenly sisters! sibling adjustment in reunion / Thompson Underdahl -- Practice strategies to preserve sibling relationships / by Deborah Silverstein & Susan Livingston Smith -- Mental health strategies to support sibling



relationships : nonverbal interventions to process trauma and maintain the sibling bond / Creek -- Permanency for siblings in kinship families / Biddle & Bishop -- Conclusion : what have we learned? where do we need to go?.

Sommario/riassunto

Normally, our relationships with our brothers and sisters are the longest relationships in our lives, outlasting time with our parents, and most marriages today. The sibling relationship is emotionally powerful and critically important, giving us a sense of continuity throughout life. So what happens when a child loses contact not only with his or her parents, but with siblings too? That is what happens in thousands of cases each year inside the child welfare system. Children are surrendered by parents - or taken by the government - and placed in the foster care system. There, they are often separated and sent to different foster families, or adopted by different couples. In this work, a team of top experts details for us how this added separation futher traumatizes children. This stellar team of internationally known researchers - some of whom are themselves adoptees - shares with us hard, poignant, and personal insights, as well as ways we might act to solve this widespread problem.Contributors address not only the importance of nurturing sibling bonds and mental health strategies to support those relationships, but also the legal rights of siblings to be together, as well as issues in international adoptions. Emerging and standing programs to encourage and facilitate adoptions that keep siblings together are featured, as are programs that at least enable them to stay in contact.