Siblings in Adoption and Foster Care: Traumatic Separations and Honored Connections

Contributors address not only the importance of nurturing sibling bonds and mental health strategies to support those relationships, but also the legal rights of siblings to be together, as well as issues in international adoptions. Emerging and standing programs to encourage and facilitate adoptions that keep siblings together are featured, as are programs that at least enable them to stay in contact. "Theory and research, practice guidelines, and stories, are all explored." The contributing authors include educators, clinicians, researchers, practitioners, psychologists, and youth.