Adoption
We have collected here some material on various issues related to adoption. You will see that many of these resources are from the website talkinghearttoheart.org, which is a website about parenting adopted teens.
Special Needs Adoption
Son’s Prenatal Exposure to Amphetamines
Adoptive Mom Advocates for Daughter’s Special Needs
Adoptees Speak Out
Positive Message to Parents: Sending your Child to Treatment
PACER- Support Groups for Adopted Persons and Birth Parents
http://talkinghearttoheart.org/adoptee-voices/pacer-groups-for-adopted-persons-and-birth-parents/
Andrea’s Story – Latina Adoptee
http://talkinghearttoheart.org/parenting-adopted-teens/andreas-story/
A Whole New World – Chinese Adoptee’s Story
http://talkinghearttoheart.org/adoptee-voices/a-whole-new-world/
Kathryn Joyce, Author of The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking and the New Gospel of Adoption
Aselefech Evans and Jenni Fang Lee in Conversation – Ethiopian and Chinese Adoptees
http://talkinghearttoheart.org/adoptee-voices/aselefech-evans-and-jenni-fang-lee-in-conversation/
Adoptee Searches for Birth Mother
http://talkinghearttoheart.org/parenting-adopted-teens/angela-tuckers-film-closure/
Transracial Adoptive Families
Conversation about Transracial Adoption with Beth Hall, Executive Director of PACT An Adoption Alliance
Checklist for Transracially Adoptive Parents
Radical Attachment Disorder
Podcast on Unconditional Love
Adoption and Identity
For Adoptive Parents: The Tween Years
http://talkinghearttoheart.org/parenting-adopted-teens/for-adoptive-parents-the-tween-years/
Adoption and Divorce
http://talkinghearttoheart.org/parenting-adopted-teens/adoption-and-divorce/
Identity, Adolescence and Adoption
Is Adoption Loss? For Adoptive Parents
http://talkinghearttoheart.org/parenting-adopted-teens/is-adoption-loss-for-adoptive-parents/
Adoption Counselors
Cindy Rasicot MFT, www.cindyrasicot.com, Lafayette, CA 510 332-0463
Cherie Campbell-French MFT, Lafayette, CA 925 787-4673
Colleen King Ney LCSW, Palo Alto, CA 650 493-1448
Linda Ikeda MFT, San Jose, CA 408 247-1600 #3