Adoption Today

Our bi-monthly members' magazine, Adoption Today, is full of the latest news, expert advice and real-life insight from adoptive families. You can read past copies by visiting the members' area of our website.

Articles in the April 2020 edition:

• Covid-19
  The coming weeks are likely to be a challenge for us all. Our families are particularly likely to feel the strain of changes to routine, increased anxiety, education pressures and social isolation. Here are some of the ways you can look after yourself and your family.
• Adoption UK in action
  Find out what we’ve been working on.
• Life story therapy
  Play therapist and social worker, Julia Davis, explains how therapeutic life story work can help adoptive families process what has happened in their children’s pasts better.
• Seven core issues in adoption and permanency
  Adoption and mental health specialists, Sharon Roszia and Allison Davis Maxon, share their research into the core issues faced by adoptees and their families. 
• Healing through art
  Alice and Shauna Boland-Rhodes are the founders of No Outcome Art, which offers therapeutic art workshops for adopted children. They tell us how art can help.
• Helping adoptive families grow together
  Our Therapeutic and Education Support Services in Adoption (TESSA) programme, which launched in Wales at the end of 2019, is already celebrating some early successes. We speak to the parents involved.

Join Adoption UK today to get your copy of Adoption Today magazine.

Click here to become a member today