Foster Care and Foster Adoption

Please find some of our best articles, essays and reviews on this topic.

For more topics and articles, check out our full listing on our Resource Library.

Children who are placed for adoption in the midst of trauma respond by internalizing the experience. They need help to understand and manage the emotional pain on top of whatever other trauma’s led to their placement. Topics include recruitment and reasons for adopting waiting children, what happens to youth who don’t get adopted, and lots of articles to help foster parents understand children’s behaviors in reaction to what has happened to them.

If you prefer, you can use our Library Search Tool to search by title or author. All the material in this section is copyrighted by Pact; for permission to reproduce or re-post it, please contact us at education@pactadopt.org.

• A Different Kind of Normal
  by Joan McNamara (1998 | 339 KB | )
  
• Adoption Candle Ceremony
  adapted from FAIR (2009 | 70 KB | )
  
• Assistance and Tax Benefits for Foster and Adoptive Parents
  by Pact (2011 | 533 KB | )
  
• Book Review: All Families Are Special
  by Norma Simon, Illustrated by Teresa Flavin (2004 | 408 KB | )
  
• Book Review: Brothers and Sisters in Adoption
  by Arleta James (2009 | 473 KB | )
  
• Book Review: Parenting Adopted Adolescents: Understanding and Appreciating Their Journeys
  by Gregory Keck (2009 | 408 KB | )
  
• Book Review: The Woman Who Raised Me
  by Victoria Rowell (2005 | 82 KB | )
  
• Children In Transition
  by Devon Rubin (2009 | 308 KB | )
  
• Climbing Mount Adoption
  by Shane Salter (1992 | 320 KB | )
  
• Developing Cultural Competence
  by Linda Whitfield (1995 | 105 KB | )
  
• Does Fost-Adoption Encourage Healthy Growth?
  By Jodee Kulp (1995 | 333 KB | )
  
• Encouraging Reluctant Teens & Tweens to Attend Teen Club
  by Pact (2011 | 342 KB | )
  
• Family Stories: Surviving Foster Care - A Day with Shane Salter
  Interviewed by Roxanne Agur (1997 | 373 KB | )
  
• Film Review: Foster Parents Speak: Crossing Bridges and Fostering Change
  by Photosythesis Productions (2009 | 469 KB | )
  
• How Did You Get So Close?
  by Holly van Gulden (1998 | 331 KB | )
  
• Interpreting Regression in Children
  Adapted from Holly van Gulden (2009 | 329 KB | )
  
• Issues in Kinship Care
  by Pact (2010 | 48 KB | )
  
• Laughter, Attachment and Adopting Older Kids
  by Pat O’Brien (1996 | 340 KB | )
  
• Looking At Kinship Adoption - Hammering Out Bits And Pieces Of The Elephant: An Interview with Sharon Kaplan Roszia
  Interviewed by Gail Steinberg (1993 | 340 KB | )
  
• My Name Is Roxanne
  by Roxanne Agur (1995 | 110 KB | )
  
• On Being Adopted Older with "Special Needs"
  by Carol DeMuth (1997 | 349 KB | )
  
• Pact’s Position on the Multi-Ethnic and Inter-Ethnic Placement Acts
  by Beth Hall and Gail Steinberg (1997 | 117 KB | )
  
• Prenatal Substance Exposure: What Parents Need to Know
  by Pact (2010 | 59 KB | )
  
• Question and Answer with Adam Pertman
  (2011 | 127 KB | )
  
• Teen Corner: Dominique’s Journey
  by Dominique Parker (2005 | 94 KB | )
  
• The Decision Makers?
  by Barbara Termitiere (1995 | 324 KB | )
  
• The Life Story Book
  by Vera Fahlberg (1993 | 337 KB | )
  
• The Tapestry of My Life
  by Holly van Gulden (1994 | 323 KB | )
  
• Who Are The Real Parents - Revisiting Extended Family as a Support System for Children in Need of Adoption or Foster Care
  by O. Virginia Phillips (1995 | 111 KB | )
  

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