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Infertility Patients


Surviving Infertility - Joni Mantell, LCSW
Adoption or Donor - Making the Decision - Judy Kotick, LCSW

Living successfully with infertility - Janet Jaffe, Ph.D

Counseling 'incomplete' families (for Professionals)
Making the Transition from infertility to adoption
- Joni Mantell, LCSW

Don't be afraid, it's just Grief - IACCenter Client

Knowing When to Stop Trying - By Janet Jaffe, Ph.D.
Loss is a Four-letter Word - Dr. Karel Kovnat-Adler
Should We Adopt?  Infertile Parents Face Their Options for Parenthood
The Road to Resilience - Dr. Teena Cahill
Notes from Dr. Teena Cahill - Dr. Teena Cahill

Pre-adoption


While You Are Waiting to Adopt
Making Space: Clearing the Way for a New Beginning - Liz Lombardi
Adoption Marketing: Thinking Out-Of-The-Box - Lynne Berman
He Said She Said - Michael & Joy Goldstein
An International Adoption Primer - Jane Cramer

"The Orphan Doctor" - The Adoption Pediatrician - Dr. Jane Aronson
Domestic Adoption - An Attorneys Perspective - Robin Fleischner, Esq.

Domestic Adoption - The Path to Adoption - Aaron Britvain, Esq.

"It's not like you are the one having the Baby" - IACCenter Client

Adoption Disruption Insurance is back - Jim Miscowski, Esq.

Adoption Lifebooks Basics (1/3) - Betsy Scherl

Adoption Lifebooks Photograph & Memorabilia (2/3) - Betsy Scherl

Adoption Lifebooks what to do while waiting (3/3) - Betsy Scherl

How can Acupuncture help? - Mimi Vassilev-Baker

Handling Grief During the Holidays - Susan Loscalzo, MA, LPC

How the Hague Convention... Might affect you - Deborah Spivack, Esq N

The Adoption Tax Credit - IACCenter Client
Loss is a Four-letter Word - Dr. Karel Kovnat-Adler
The Road to Resilience - Dr. Teena Cahill
Susan Merkel's Adoption Story - Susan Merkel
An Adoptive Dad Speaks about Making the Decision and Becoming a Parent

Adoptive Families

IAC Center Adoption Topics article Adoption and the Schools
Ten Years After: Reflections on Returning to Guatemala - Sharie Verdu
Transracial Adoption: It will Change Your Family Forever - Carolyn Berger, LCSW
First Mother's Day
First Father's Day
The Backwards Lifebook - Joy Rees
Holiday Gifts and the Family-Building Journey - Joni Mantell, LCSW
Becoming a “Public Family” - Jane Cramer, MSW
The Unlikely Crusader - Parenting through Adoption - Ellen Glazer
Girl's Return to Peru sparks effort to help orphans - CNN
Parenting an adopted child - Interview: editors of "A Love Like no Other"

Adoption and the schools - Joni Mantell, LCSW
Family & Friends & the holidays - Joni Mantell, LCSW
Letter From Korea - Daniel Kearns
Ages and Stages in Adoption:  Implications for Parenting and Family
Adoptive Parents Invest More than Biological Parents in Kids
Personal Identity:  A Core Issue in Identity - Jeremy Robbi, M.A.

Adoption Language - Daniel Lee Kearns
Dr. Aronson's Worldwide Orphan Foundation's newsletters
Beyond Cuisine and Traditional Dress:  Creating True Cultural Connections for Trans-racial adoptees - Ji In
Juno:  Open Adoption, Closed  Communication - Bob Bammon, LCSW
Open Adoption, How Open? - Joni S. Mantell, LCSW
De-emphasis on Race in Adoption Is Criticized

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Recommended Reading

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Articles in Adoptive Families Magazine by and with Joni S. Mantell, LCSW

Striking Resemblance
Split Decision
When Birthmoms Get the Blues
Time for Camp?
Lifebook Lessons

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Video Clips

Introduction

International Adoption Workshop 2006
Crossing the Bridge as a New Metaphor
When is Enough Enough? Dr. Andrea Braverman
Lifebook Workshop dialogue between Joni Mantell and Carrie Kitze
How to talk to children about adoption in an IAC Center Support Group run by Joni Mantell, LCSW
An Adoptive Dad Speaking about Making the Decision and Becoming a Parent through adoption

Adoption Videos from Crossing the Bridge from Infertility to Adoption

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Research Project

The IAC Center is launching a Survey to help clarify what prospective adoptive parents really want to learn about adoption and what kind of support they really need.  To learn more click HERE.

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