Understanding Adoption: Clinical Work with Adults, Children, and Parents

by Diana Siskind (Editor, Collaborator), Susan B. Sherman (Editor), Kathleen Hushion (Editor), Janet Shapiro (Collaborator), Carole Lapidus (Collaborator), Cathy Siebold (Collaborator), Jeffrey Seinfeld (Collaborator), Sandy Silverman (Collaborator), Paul Hymowitz (Collaborator), Vivian Shapiro (Collaborator), Susan Sherman (Collaborator), Laurie Sloane (Collaborator), Alice van der Pas (Collaborator), , SusanWarshaw (Collaborator), Jane Hanenberg (Collaborator), Jerrold Brandell (Collaborator) and Christopher Bonovitz (Collaborator)

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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.