Adopting after Infertility (eBook, ePUB)

Messages from Practice, Research and Personal Experience
Redaktion: Crawshaw, Marilyn; Balen, Rachel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Around three quarters of people who turn to adoption do so because of infertility and those working in this field need information, guidance and support to assist them in the process of adoption to support the adopters and to deal with any issues that may result from infertility.

Adopting after Infertility is an accessible and informative interdisciplinary book that addresses the issues that professionals working with adopters and the adopters themselves face when going through the adoption process and the impact of infertility on their experiences. The book includes chapters on the effects of infertility, why people may choose adoption and the assessment and preparation process. It also covers what an Adoption Panel needs to know about the prospective parents, the experiences of those coming to adoption from minority communities or when living with health conditions and post-adoption support needs. Personal accounts by people who have experienced adopting after infertility are included throughout the book.

This book will be essential reading for professionals and academics from a range of disciplines including social work, psychology, health, mental health and counselling. It will also be invaluable to students studying for post-qualifying awards.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857003904
• Artikelnr.: 38236414

Autorenporträt

Edited by Marilyn Crawshaw and Rachel Balen

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Marilyn Crawshaw
University of York
UK and Rachel Balen
University of Huddersfield
UK. 1. The impact of infertility and treatment on individuals and couples. Lone Schmidt
Institute of Public Health
University of Copenhagen
Denmark. 2. When treatment ends; the experiences of women and couples. Gayle Letherby
University of Plymouth
UK. 3. The shift from medical treatment to adoption: Exploring family building options. Petra Thorn
Practice for Couple and Family Therapy
Germany. 4. Where infertility arises from a prior health condition - fit to adopt? Marilyn Crawshaw and Rachel Balen. 5. Assessing infertile couples for adoption - Just what does 'coming to terms with infertility' mean? Marilyn Crawshaw. 6. Adoption and infertility: The role of the Adoption Panel. Jenny Gwilt
independent adoption consultant
UK. 7. 'For him
it's got to be your own son': Adoption and infertility in British South Asian communities. Lorraine Culley and Nicky Hudson
De Montfort University
UK. 8. 'A sense of belonging': The experience of a Black adopter. Sally Baffour
ThankU Charity
UK. 9. Infertility and intercountry adoption. Gill Haworth
Intercountry Adoption Centre
UK
Peter Selman
Newcastle University
UK and Jan Way
Intercountry Adoption Centre
UK. 10. A child at last: Adoption after infertility. Anthea Hendry
Art Psychotherapist
UK and Penny Netherwood
Leeds Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service
UK. 11. Nature and nurture: What do theory and research tell us? Olga van den Akker
Middlesex University
UK. 12. Infertility and adoption: The search for birth parents and the impact on adult family relationships. Julia Feast
British Association for Adoption and Fostering
UK. Final Thoughts. Index.