Helping Children Navigate Relationships When New Kids Join the Family
Brothers and Sisters in Adoption is a 2010 Mom’s Choice Awards® Gold Recipient among adult adoption books and is Winner of the 2010 Benjamin Franklin Award as best book in the Psychology genre!
As the book Gray’s Anatomy is to doctors and Black’s Law Dictionary is to the legal field, Arleta James’ Brothers and Sisters in Adoption will be to foster and adoptive parents and child welfare professionals”
from a review by Regina Kupecky
Arleta James, MS, PCC, a therapist with the Attachment and Bonding Center of Ohio, has become well known on the speaking circuit for her expertise in working with adoption-expanded families. Now she shares in one very big (7×10), very fat (544 pages) book what she has learned about integrating children who arrive beyond the newborn stage and with complicated histories into families which already contain kids born into them or adopted by them who are developing predictably and “normally.”
From years of working with families who have adopted domestically and internationally, Arleta has developed practical tools for assisting placement professionals in preparing and supporting families, and for parents, already-resident children and the older-adopted children who join them to use in accepting one-another’s unfamiliar behavior and culture and merging them, ultimately helping those new kids heal, so that the family can forge strong connections and attachments to one another. Brothers and Sisters in Adoption uses some of the material in Arleta’s multi-media curriculum “Brothers and Sisters” and much, much more.
