• What to Consider Before you Adopt
• Creating a Nurturing Environment
• How to Communicate About Adoption From Infancy Through Adolescence
• Adopting Internationally and Transnationally
• Adopting and Parenting a Child with Special Needs
• Understanding Attachment and the Impact of Trauma
• When a Child Wants to Search for Birth parents

Thinking about adoption? You must have questions - hundreds of them, in fact. The Whole Life Adoption Book has the answers.

With the most current information, research, and parenting strategies, this book is a practical resource every adoptive family should own. And it's now recommended reading by the National Council For Adoption (NCFA). You'll understand the impact of adoption on birth children and learn about links to other resources for the journey ahead.

Every question you've considered - and some that you haven't - will be answered in the pages of The Whole Life Adoption Book. The learn more about the NCFA, visit their website at www.adoptioncouncil.org

1. Making Room in the Family
2. Creating a Family
3. Navigating Intercountry Adoption
4. Transcultural Adoption
5. What Builds Healthy Adoptive Families?
6. Developing a Supportive Adoption Environment
7. Barriers to Adjustment
8. Attachment, Development, and the Impact of Trauma
9. Living with Children With Attachment Trauma
10. How Do We Feel About Adoption?
11. Talking to Children About Adoption
12. What's Inside an Adopted Adolescent?
13. Searching for a Past
14. Creating a Nurturing Family