by Cindy Probst, M.Ed, MSW, LCSW
Adoption Lifebook: A Bridge to Your Child's Beginnings is an easy-to-read workbook for international adoptive parents and waiting parents who wish to document their children’s early lives for them, in the form of a lifebook. Through exercises and the text, readers become more comfortable telling children the truth about their beginnings while emphasizing their strengths and resilience.
Adoption specialist Cindy Probst guides parents through such topics as talking with children about their birth parents and orphanage or foster care experience, answering “why was I adopted?” questions, and using empowering adoption language. Adoption Lifebook: A Bridge to Your Child's Beginnings is an invaluable resource for helping children feel good about who they are.
REVIEWS
"This is a great idea and you have done it beautifully. I can recommend it to adoptive parents and children!"
T. Berry Brazelton, MD, Professor Emeritus, Harvard Medical School
"I am so glad that there is now an easy-to-use guide for families to make their specifically international lifebook. Cindy's approach is warm and supportive, while imparting a wealth of knowledge about adoption and child development. This will be a valuable tool for adoptive families for many years to come."
Joan Clark, Former Executive Director, ACONE Adoption Community of New England, Inc.
"Virtually all adopted children report intense longing for information about their early days or months. Cindy Probst has done a tremendous service to adoptive parents and children alike with this sensitive and practical guide to compiling information and writing about our children's lives before they joined our families. By helping parents acknowledge the difficult emotions surfaced in this process as well as by providing practical tips for how to document our children's first months even when little or no apparent information exists, Probst will help a generation of children find some of the answers to their questions. This is a book no adoptive family should be without."
Susan Caughman, Publisher,
Adoptive Families Magazine
We recommend pairing this with Beth O'Malley's book that you can find here
By
special arrangement, this book is autographed by Cindy!
