14. Bibliography

This section of the SWAN Permanency Toolkit contains a list of sources of information used to create the toolkit.


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  • Forbes, Heather. “Beyond Consequences Live.” Beyond Consequences Live. St. Christopher’s Children’s Hospital. Philadelphia, PA. 2011. Training.
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  • Hicks, Randall, (2005). Adopting in America: How To Adopt Within One Year, WordSlinger Press
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  • MacAskill, C. (2002). Safe Contact?: Children in Permanent Placement and Contact With Their Birth Relatives. Dorset, England: Russell House Publishing Limited.
  • Macrae, S. editor, Disruption & Dissolution: Unspoken Losses.
  • Massimini, M. T. (1999). Talking to Children About Loss. New York, NY: Penguin Putnam.
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  • The National Commission of Family Foster Care
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  • Neil, E. (2007). Post-Adoption Contact and Openness in Adoptive Parents’ Minds: Consequences for Children’s Development. British Journal of Social Work , 5-23.
  • O’Toole, E. (2011). In On it: What adoptive parents would like you to know about adoption. St. Paul, MN: Fig Press.
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  • Perry, B. (n.d.). Surviving Childhood: An Introduction to the Impact of Trauma. Retrieved July 2013, from Child Trauma Academy: childtrauma.org
  • Perry, D. B. (2010). Effects of Traumatic Events on Children. Retrieved Aug. 2012, from The Child Trauma Academy: www.ChildTrauma.org
  • Pertman, A. (2011). Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming our Families – and America. Boston, MA: The Harvard Common Press.
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  • Petroff, Valerie. GREAT EXPECTATIONS! A Mother’s Journey through Post-Adoption Depression. NACAC Conference, Workshop August 9, 2013, Toronto, Canada.
  • Practice Parameters for the Assessment and Treatment of Children and Adolescents with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. (April, 2010). Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 49 , 414-430.
  • Rethinking Adoption in the 21st Century: Historic Shifts Create New Realities – and a Need for Structural Change. Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, March 3, 2014 from www.adoptioninstitute.org
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  • Siegel, D. J. (1999). The Developing Mind. New York, New York: The Guilford Press.
  • Siegel, D. H. (2008). Open Adoption and Adolescence. Families in Society , 366-374.
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  • Silverstein, D. N., & Smith, S. L. (2009). Siblings in Adoption and Foster Care: Traumatic Separations and Honored Connections. Westport, CT: Praeger Press.
  • Sisneski, J., Adoption Disruption: When Love Isn’t Enough, February 2007
  • Singer, D. G., & Revenson, T. A. (1978). A Piaget Primer: How a Child Thinks. New York, New York: Plume.
  • South, S & Lim, E, Expectations, exhaustion can lead mothers to post-adoption stress.
  • US Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families. June 11, 2013, from http://www.acf.hhs.gov/
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  • Yatchmenoff, Diane K. (2001). Measuring Client Engagement From the Client’s Perspective in Nonvoluntary Child Protective Services.