The Adopted Teen Workbook

“What a wonderful resource for adopted teens and families! Neiman deftly captures the central themes of identity and loss, putting words to feelings that often go unspoken. Her workbook includes mindfulness and self-care, so needed in today’s technology-saturated world. I love how she interweaves mindfulness and managing stress with difficult feelings and their adoption narrative. I’ll be recommending this to all of the adoptive families I know and work with!”
 —Katie Naftzger, LICSW, author of Parenting in the Eye of the Storm

“Barbara Neiman’s The Adopted Teen Workbook is a remarkable intervention in the challenges facing adopted youth and teens in foster or kinship care. Drawing on years of experience in the discipline of mindfulness, Neiman’s workbook provides a series of carefully devised exercises that engage body and mind, opening a space for meditation and reflection on the realities of loss and abandonment. This workbook has the potential to be a powerful tool not only for the adopted, but for those whose lives have been transformed by adoptive kinship.”
 —Barbara Yngvesson, professor emerita of anthropology at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, and author of Belonging in an Adopted World

“Adolescence is a joyous yet often challenging time for families as teens work through issues involved in identity formation. This is particularly true for adopted teens, who not only must determine who they are and where they came from but must face the issue of abandonment by their birth parents. Resources for adoptive families in this area have been lacking, but this void has been filled. In The Adopted Teen Workbook, Barbara Neiman offers a practical road map that will greatly assist adoptees and their parents in jointly navigating a safe passage to adulthood.”
—Dana E. Johnson, MD, PhD, professor in the department of pediatrics, Adoption Medicine Clinic, University of Minnesota