Risk & Promise
Author: Ira J. Chasnoff, MD, Linda D. Schwartz, PhD, Cheryl L. Pratt, PhD, Gwendolyn J. Neuberger, MD
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Risk and Promise is written by a team of pediatricians, a clinical psychologist, and an infant mental health specialist based on their extensive research and clinical experience in working with children adopted from overseas. The first two sections of Risk and Promise provide prospective parents with information as it will come to them during the adoption process. Each major section is then divided into key subsections that focus the information on specific characteristics related to the child. The book’s third section consists of worksheets that parents can fill out to help them collect baseline information that will be helpful in both the short and long term. The authors’ goal in writing this book is to insure that every adoption is a well-informed adoption that ultimately promotes the health and development of the child and the family.
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Praise for RISK AND PROMISE
“This is a clearly written book, both accurate and concise...This is on the list of "must buys" for members of the adoption community.”
- Deborah D. Gray, MSW, MPA, author of Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents.
“Unlike most other books on international adoption, this one has been devised by specialists in medicine and developmental psychology”
- Library Journal (Starred Review)
“This is a must read for anyone considering international adoption to help them prepare for whatever might come.”
- Kristine Faasse, LMSW ACSW, Director of Adoption Services, Bethany Christian Services
“It [Risk and Promise] provides parents with a better understanding of how to interpret a child’s medical information, an understanding of behaviors that are prevalent among orphaned children, how to encourage bonding and attachment and tools to utilize once the family has returned home that will promote growth and development for their child...I
recommend it to adoption professionals as well as adoptive parents.”
- Snow Wu, MA, President, Great Wall China Adoption
“...Not just a great resource for internationally adoptive parents but to all prospective adoptive parents. ”
- Carrie Craft, Adoption/Foster Care, about.com
