Authors Jayne E. Schooler and Thomas C. Atwood share insights into every aspect of adoption. This powerful resource addresses the needs and concerns facing adoptive parents while offering encouragement for the journey ahead.
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Schooler's strength lies in her relating the emotional issues of adoption: identity, grief and barriers to attachment...As a mother of four adopted sons, I found this book to be beneficial. -- Katrina Schmitz, Christian Retailing, April 15, 1993
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Thinking about adoption? You must have questions—hundreds of them, in fact. The Whole Life Adoption Book has the answers.
With the most current information, research, and parenting strategies, this book is a practical resource every adoptive family should own. And it’s now recommended reading by the National Council For Adoption (NCFA). You’ll understand the impact of adoption on birth children and learn about links to other resources for the journey ahead.
Every question you’ve considered—and some that you haven’t—will be answered in the pages of The Whole Life Adoption Book . To learn more about the NCFA, visit www.adoptioncouncil.org.
With the most current information, research, and parenting strategies, this book is a practical resource every adoptive family should own. And it’s now recommended reading by the National Council For Adoption (NCFA). You’ll understand the impact of adoption on birth children and learn about links to other resources for the journey ahead.
Every question you’ve considered—and some that you haven’t—will be answered in the pages of The Whole Life Adoption Book . To learn more about the NCFA, visit www.adoptioncouncil.org.
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Jayne E. Schooler, an enthusiastic supporter of families formed by adoption or foster care currently serves as a international trainer, consultant, and curriculum writer with the Institute for Human Services in Columbus, Ohio. She has partnered with Casey Family Programs, the National Foster Parent Association, Spaulding for Children and the National Council for Adoption in writing and training projects. Her unique experience as both a foster/adoptive parent and adoption professional offers her audiences credible experience and support.
Jayne has over 25 years of experience in working with and speaking to families and professionals in child welfare, first as a foster parent, then as an adoptive parent, adoption professional and educator. Jayne's first book, The Whole Life Adoption Book,(1993 and revised 2008) is required reading for adoption agencies around the country. She is also the author of Searching for a Past,(1995) and co-author of an award-winning book, Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child.(2000) and Journeys after Adoption (2002) and Mom, Dad, I'm Pregnant" When Your Daughter or Son Faces an Unplanned Pregnancy.(2004) Her newest book project, Wounded Children, Healing Homes: How Traumatized Children Impact Adoptive and Foster Parents was released January, 2010.
Since 1989, Jayne has been a keynote speaker and workshop presenter on family life issues as well as foster and adoptive parent issues on state, national, and international levels for both families and professionals. She has made guest appearances on over three dozen radio talk shows across the country, speaking on adoption and family life issues. She was selected as the 2006 Trainer of the Year for the Ohio Child Welfare training program and also awarded the Distinguished Service in Training award (2006) by the National Staff Development and Training Association.
Jayne's international work has taken her to Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, and in 2010, her speaking and consultation expands to Poland and New Zealand. This is cooperation with the International Leadership and Development Center headquartered in Canada. One of her books have been translated into Russian (Telling the Truth) and plans are in the works for two others - in Russian and Polish.
In addition to her training and writing responsibilities, Jayne also serves as a faculty member in the Life Issues Counseling Department of the Master's International School of Divinity in Evansville, Indiana. She and her husband, Dr. David Schooler, are the parents of two adult children, Ray, age 43 who joined their family by adoption at age 16, and a daughter, Kristy, 33 and grandparents of three.
AND our blog dandjschooler.blogspot.com
Jayne E. Schooler, an enthusiastic supporter of families formed by adoption or foster care currently serves as a international trainer, consultant, and curriculum writer with the Institute for Human Services in Columbus, Ohio. She has partnered with Casey Family Programs, the National Foster Parent Association, Spaulding for Children and the National Council for Adoption in writing and training projects. Her unique experience as both a foster/adoptive parent and adoption professional offers her audiences credible experience and support.
Jayne has over 25 years of experience in working with and speaking to families and professionals in child welfare, first as a foster parent, then as an adoptive parent, adoption professional and educator. Jayne's first book, The Whole Life Adoption Book,(1993 and revised 2008) is required reading for adoption agencies around the country. She is also the author of Searching for a Past,(1995) and co-author of an award-winning book, Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child.(2000) and Journeys after Adoption (2002) and Mom, Dad, I'm Pregnant" When Your Daughter or Son Faces an Unplanned Pregnancy.(2004) Her newest book project, Wounded Children, Healing Homes: How Traumatized Children Impact Adoptive and Foster Parents was released January, 2010.
Since 1989, Jayne has been a keynote speaker and workshop presenter on family life issues as well as foster and adoptive parent issues on state, national, and international levels for both families and professionals. She has made guest appearances on over three dozen radio talk shows across the country, speaking on adoption and family life issues. She was selected as the 2006 Trainer of the Year for the Ohio Child Welfare training program and also awarded the Distinguished Service in Training award (2006) by the National Staff Development and Training Association.
Jayne's international work has taken her to Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, and in 2010, her speaking and consultation expands to Poland and New Zealand. This is cooperation with the International Leadership and Development Center headquartered in Canada. One of her books have been translated into Russian (Telling the Truth) and plans are in the works for two others - in Russian and Polish.
In addition to her training and writing responsibilities, Jayne also serves as a faculty member in the Life Issues Counseling Department of the Master's International School of Divinity in Evansville, Indiana. She and her husband, Dr. David Schooler, are the parents of two adult children, Ray, age 43 who joined their family by adoption at age 16, and a daughter, Kristy, 33 and grandparents of three.
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: The Whole Life Adoption Book: Realistic Advice for Building a Healthy Adoptive Family (Paperback)
Do not make the mistake of buying earlier editions of this terrific volume. The new, June 2008 edition is considerably longer and more detailed than the original book, good though that is.
First off, this edition deals in much greater detail with questions and issues surrounding the inter-country adoption process, which today is governed by the Hague Convention for International Adoptions. (Would that the convention had been in effect when we adopted abroad.) From our perspective, a decade-plus into the adoption experience, some of the material here is of little interest. But for families considering adoption or in the early stages of building and adoptive family, there is much good advice, beginning with discussions of the healthiest motivations for wanting to adopt, and acceptance of the "foundational realities." It's appalling to learn here how many families have adopted children and never told them they were adopted. It should be understood that children have a right to know where they come from, even if the available details are very sparse. Along with accepting that foundation is the reality that adoption generally involves healing for the adoptive parents as well as the child. In most cases, the parents must accept their inability to conceive; they must also understand that their child suffers --- and will continue to do so --- from a Primal Wound that requires nursing and extra care to heal. The book also has excellent chapters on attachment trauma and the difficulties of dealing with adopted kids during their teens. Children may say being adopted has been easy for them. And children adopted as infants, especially, do fare pretty well. But the fact is that at least 5% of children adopted as infants have extraordinarily difficult teen years --- much more so than the average child raised in his or her biological family. And another fact is that raising an adopted child is a much different deal than raising one's biological child. There are a vast range of questions and issues that just don't come up with the latter. And while adopted kids generally emerge from the teenage years in good shape, helping them through this rough period requires super-parents. Don't go into it if you're not prepared. Kids and families want control of their lives. This book can help give them control where otherwise, thanks to all the unknowns and separations, they might feel helpless. (I also recommend Beneath the Mask.) Finally, the book reassures adoptive parents fearful of their child's search for his or her birth parents. Personally, I can't imagine feeling that way, but apparently it's very common. The experience of finding birth parents, in our case, was healing for all members of the adoption triad --- our child, the birth parents, and us, the adoptive parents. My advice: if it looks even remotely possible, try. This book, though, explains that searching and learning a child's origin and "story" can most often help them resolve questions and issues, without which, the child will probably lead a much less productive and meaningful life. This is a book that adoptive parents certainly need, for their child's whole life. As in holistic, and whole. --- Alyssa A. Lappen
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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Helping Adoptive Parents See a Bigger Picture,
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This review is from: Whole Life Adoption Book: Realistic Advice for Building a Healthy Adoptive Family Updated Edition (Paperback)
I work with adoptive parents who are just getting their children (from the child welfare system). This book helps parents figure out what questions they need to be asking. It also is very instrumental in showing us what kinds of issues might come up 2, 5, 10 years from now for an adopted child. Just last night, i had another adoptive parent who is about to finalize their adoption rave about this book. Sometimes it is hard to see beyond a child's need today, but we must be prepared for tomorrow, and this book helps us to do that.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
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A great resource,
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This title is clearly one of the better adoption resource books on the market. It contains a large amount of practical yet thoughtful advice and brings to the attention of adoptive (or potential adoptive) parent considerations that clearly are appropriate but that may not have been obvious before reading the book. The first section of the book clearly would benefit prospective adoptive parents as they work through a myriad of issues before and during the adoption process.
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