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Carol Lozier announces her new website, www.forever-families.com and book, The Adoptive & Foster Parent Guide: How to Heal Your Child?s Trauma and Loss.
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Carol Lozier, MSW is a clinical social worker in private practice in Louisville, Kentucky.? She graduated from Florida State University in 1989, and is licensed in the state of Kentucky.? Carol Lozier has spent over twenty years counseling children and families, specializing in adoption and foster care issues.? She is passionate about helping children heal from past trauma and loss.
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The Adoptive & Foster Parent Guide: How to Heal Your Child?s Trauma and Loss
PRACTICAL HELP.? REAL ANSWERS.
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Finally, a practical, reader-friendly book for adoptive and foster parents!
?The first part of the book effortlessly explains topics that are pertinent to adoptive and foster families, including the four attachment styles, detachment, and unique family issues, such as: family triangles and birth families.? This information will be helpful to the newly arrived home family as well as the experienced family.?
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Adopted and foster children enter a family with a history of loss and/or trauma.? In the second half of the book practical strategies, vignettes, and tips teach parents how to maintain a calm home, manage their child?s behavior, and heal their child?s trauma and loss through the guidance of step-by-step instruction.
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As a result of early deprivation, children may see a few to many professionals, and typically are also involved in school or community activities.?Commonly, parents believe that a provider will manage their child?s care but in actuality, this is often not the case.? The third part of the book explains how parents can arrange, monitor, and coordinate their child?s mental and physical health care.? ?
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The new website, www.forever-families.com offers information and support to families.? On the site you can buy copies of the book, and you will find ?In My Child?s World? blog, a free child?s e-book to facilitate healing, a forum for parents, and a section titled, ?What Real Kids Say!?
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BOOK REVIEWS
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This is what Deborah Gray, MSW, MPA therapist and author of Attaching in Adoption and Nurturing Attachments, says about the The Adoptive & Foster Parent Guide:?
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?Carol Lozier's book is a clearly written guide to parents and professionals alike. The book is full of good ideas that will help adoptive families in their journey. I immediately chose one of her suggestions to use with my client families. Carol has the gift of explaining to the lay reader easy applications of family therapy principles. The book is a positive one, sure to help adoptive families. It is a welcome addition to the literature.?
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Kay Bratt, child advocate and author of Silent Tears; A Journey of Hope in a Chinese Orphanage, Chasing China, The Bridge and Mei-Li, endorses the book:
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"The Adoptive and Foster Parent Guide" addresses behavioral issues and unique emotional requirements for adopted children of all ages with easy exercises and real life stories to relate to. This is not just a guide to bring hope to you?it is a guide that will help heal your child of the early hurt or trauma they may have experienced.??
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Jeanne P. mother to six, three of whom are adopted, provides her endorsement:
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?I see it like this: A child who has suffered early trauma, loss or neglect will very likely join their new family with a layer of ice around them. It might be a thin layer that is easily cracked or it might be very thick. Most adoption books give us tools to help chip away at the ice from the exterior, but your book gives us a step-by-step approach to help melt the ice from the inside out. It is not to say that we can't keep chipping away from the outside, but if we were able to simultaneously melt the ice from the inside, how much quicker would we be able to see the real kid who is hiding underneath????
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Penny Callan Partridge, adult adoptee and author of THE PEOPLE THEY BROUGHT ME - Poems in the? Adoption Community
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?We are lucky to have Carol Lozier share her success in working with adoptive families and to make this sharing such an easy read.??
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GIVEAWAYS!!
In celebration of The Adoptive & Foster Parent Guide, there will be numerous giveaways including free copies of the book and international dolls, picture frames, and bookmarks.? Stay tuned!? The giveaways will be announced on www.forever-families.com and the Forever-Families Facebook Group Page.
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