Adopción y acogimiento

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  • My Soul’s Desire
    Meri Richardson Lsw Mhp Sphr
    A true love story that will touch your heart~A soulful and heart-filled story that doesn’t shy away from the often harsh, heartbreaking realities of adoption; a must for potential parents in preparation for the adoption process.~ Karen H, LSW former adoption counselor and hospice counselor~It is an absolutely amazing weave of many facets of the adoption journey; raw, honest, an...
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    16,84 €

  • Reflection Pond
    Jaiya John
    Reflection Pond is a meditation on identity, culture, and healing in children separated from family. Among the numerous causes for these displacements are poverty, abuse, neglect, natural disaster, epidemic, immigration, incarceration, addiction, war, genocide, oppression, and child labor and trafficking. In the face of such loss and trauma, our children have the power for heal...
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    30,42 €

  • Psychology of Orphans
    Ludmila M. Shipitsyna
    Psychology of Orphans is written by Dr. Lyudmila Shipitsyna Rector of the Institute of Special Education and Psychology Saint-Petersburg, Russia. She has a Doctorate in Science and Biology and works as an honored professor in this specialty in the Russian Federation. Considered an expert and pioneer in this field in Russia, she has authored over 400 publications. Today these bo...
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    22,06 €

  • Just for Awhile
    Virginia Connelly
    This is the story of a boy placed in foster care while his mother was in prison. It is also the story of his foster mother and family, and the impact he was to have on their lives. During the first months in his new foster home, Billy’s angry and erratic behavior made even this experienced mother and teacher question her decision to open her home to a child in need. However, a...
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    14,12 €

  • Adoption
    Barbara Moe
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    94,97 €

  • Inside the Adoption Agency
    Jean Nelson-Erichsen
    Inside the Adoption Agency provides a glimpse inside the fascinating world of international adoption and explains the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption, which is revolutionizing a process that was previously uncontrolled and marred by scandal.'Jean Erichsen gives order to the often overwhelming mix of foreign and dom...
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    14,12 €

  • Forever Lily
    Beth Nonte Russell
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    13,81 €

  • Adopted and Wondering
    Marge Eaton Heegaard
    This art therapy book helps children cope with the emotional impact of adoption. Children can use this book’s interactive exercises to realize that their birth parents were good people who loved them but were unable to give them a good home; understand that they were placed, rather than abandoned; and develop a strong sense of personal identity. The interactive drawing exercise...
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    8,72 €

  • Will You Be Here When I Get Home?
    Claire Cashin
    What is the experience of being an adopted person really like? An honest look at how adoption can affect the individual, families and partners.Claire Cashin was adopted. In her youth, she experienced many personal problems because her birth mother ’gave her away’. This led her in search of her biological mother. This is a true and very honest account of adoption, search ...
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    26,17 €

  • Our Journey to Kaden
    Faydra Stratton
    This is not a book. It may look and feel like any other book you’ve held in your hands and plopped on your nightstand-but it’s not a book. It’s a blog in print. A book should be a fluid continuous stream of prose, with a climactic arch and a subsequent dénouement. This printed blog doesn’t really have those things. It has blog posts, posted comments, and emails in chronological...
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    18,71 €

  • Adopting a Daughter from China
    Denise Harris Hoppenhauer
    From the Author of Adopting A Toddler, Denise Hoppenhauer brings you Adopting a Daughter from China. Written for first time parents, the practical advice offered here combines the challenging aspects of parenthood, with personal experience and the unique needs of adoptive families.This easy to read, book covers every aspect of adopting from China: preparing the nursery, changin...
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    22,09 €

  • The Adoption Mystique
    Joanne Wolf Small / Joanne Wolf Small M.S.W.
    The framework that surrounds adoption laws, policies and practicees, the beliefs, myths and attitudes that endow it with enhanced and profound meaning, value, and mystery are what author Joanne Wolf Small, M.S.W. calls the adoption mystique. Its power is evident in the dispsaraging attitudes about adoption and adoptees held by millions of people.Important issues remain buried,...
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    22,24 €

  • The Adoption Mystique
    Joanne Wolf Small / Joanne Wolf Small M.S.W.
    The framework that surrounds adoption laws, policies and practicees, the beliefs, myths and attitudes that endow it with enhanced and profound meaning, value, and mystery are what author Joanne Wolf Small, M.S.W. calls the adoption mystique. Its power is evident in the dispsaraging attitudes about adoption and adoptees held by millions of people.Important issues remain buried,...
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    33,48 €

  • Hungarian Rhapsody
    James Derk
    'Hungarian Rhapsody: An Adoption Story' is a heart-warming account of an Indiana couple who set out to adopt a child from an orphanage in Eastern Europe but wouldn’t stop until they had brought home six children.Fighting red-tape all the way, Jim and Kim Derk were determined to reunite a split-up family and then keep them together at all costs.A must-read for anyone consideri...
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    21,62 €

  • Hungarian Rhapsody
    James Derk
    'Hungarian Rhapsody: An Adoption Story' is a heart-warming account of an Indiana couple who set out to adopt a child from an orphanage in Eastern Europe but wouldn’t stop until they had brought home six children.Fighting red-tape all the way, Jim and Kim Derk were determined to reunite a split-up family and then keep them together at all costs.A must-read for anyone consideri...
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    32,25 €

  • The Basics of Adoption
    James Dickerson / Mardi Allen
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    69,12 €

  • Understanding Adoption
    Kathleen Hushion
    Adoption has become widely practiced, accepted, and accessible, and has greatly changed the composition of families making it a timely subject for study. The authors of Understanding Adoption undertake exploration of this important terrain of loss and connection, and of the fragility and resilience of human bonds. ...
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    65,19 €

  • Understanding Adoption
    Kathleen Hushion
    Adoption has become widely practiced, accepted, and accessible, and has greatly changed the composition of families making it a timely subject for study. The authors of Understanding Adoption undertake exploration of this important terrain of loss and connection, and of the fragility and resilience of human bonds. ...
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    152,37 €

  • Weaving a Family
    Barbara Katz Rothman
    A pathbreaking study of the continuing impact of race and adoption on our society by a sociologist who is also the white mother of an African American childRead the first chapter (.pdf)Weaving together the sociological, the historical, and the personal, Barbara Katz Rothman looks at the contemporary American family through the lens of race, race through the lens of adoption, an...
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    20,52 €

  • The Other Choice
    Tamra Clum Barton
    This is a personal and touching story of one women's journey to find a child. Tamra spent 8 years pursuing a child through fertility clinics without success. Her body would not cooperate and give her the child she wanted. The need for a child was so overwhelming they turned to adoption. Their adoption journey from start to finish took three years, while reading the story y...
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    17,34 €

  • Journeying Through State Adoption
    Daphine L Reeves
    Journeying Through State Adoption is a practical guide for anyone who desires to adopt a child and who needs information to begin. It gives you a complete roadmap for navigating the state foster care system. You will walk through the touching story of a family who pursued their desire to share love with a child in need.Additionally, Journeying Through State Adoption is for thos...
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    18,70 €

  • A Very Special Child
    Debra Shiveley Welch
    A book written from the heart of a ’mother’ one who adopted a child and found her true calling. ...
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    15,95 €

  • At First A Dream
    Vic Goguen
    A solitary figure stands stoop-shouldered at the entrance to a closed China Air terminal at JFK, and he feels a creeping vulnerability that is foreign to him at age fifty-three. Peering through the rain and fog at the ghostly glow of streetlights on deserted airport roads, he wonders what in heaven’s name he is doing there.alone.in the middle of the night.six thousand dollars s...
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    21,02 €

  • Arms Wide Open
    Jane Waters
    Arms Wide Open provides a window into the lives of young pregnant women struggling with the decision of making an adoption plan or becoming a single parent. It is a vital tool for couples considering open adoption. Mrs. Waters clearly outlines the emotional turmoil of the birth mothers and offers suggestions to help make an open adoption a positive experience for the child, t...
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    14,73 €

  • Becoming a Family
    Lark Eshleman
    Becoming a Family helps adoptive parents recognize and respond to the signs of broken attachment. This practical guide offers clear and effective strategies for parents to help their children overcome their uncertain past and embrace the love of their new parents. ...
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    12,99 €

  • Hola
    Shaina Maidel
    Hola: An Adoption Adventure is a chronicle of one woman’s adventures as she struggles with fear while trying to adopt her infant daughter in a politically stressed third world country. Ultimately, Shaina finds that blind courage and faith are her best tools for survival. Hola is replete with information about the adoption process and its possible pitfalls. It offers a picture ...
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    15,53 €

  • Riding on Angels Wings - My Spiritual and Physical Pregnancies
    Cynthia M. Burris / Cynthia MBurris
    Brace yourself to be filled with inspiration, love and devotion after you read this tale of two beautiful 'Spiritual and Physical' pregnancies; you’ll want to start your own voyage. ...
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    18,25 €

  • Can My Father Deliver?
    Gladwynne Malligan
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    8,95 €

  • The Cruelest Con
    Kelly Kiser-Mostrom
    The Cruelest Con 'is a unique book in many ways: it is deeply personal, emotionally powerful, and contains important lessons for everyone in the adoption community. We all should read it and learn from it - so that adoption can truly be the rewarding, ethical process that it should be.'--Adam Pertman, author of Adoption Nation and executive director of the Evan B. Donaldson Ado...
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    16,08 €

  • ADOPTING ELDAR
    RANDALL BAKER
    'At its simplest, this is the story of an adoption. Simple stops there. How is this different? The 13-year old boy initiates the process himself None of the boy’s living parents has ever met each other, and they do not share a common language. He comes from one of the remotest, yet loveliest, locations in the world-the North Caucasus The 'rules' for this process are unfathomab...
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    30,30 €