'Handbook of Adoption' addresses topics in adoption that reflect the many dimensions of theory, research, development, race adjustment and clinical practice which can affect adoption triad members.
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the complex landscape surrounding international adoptions within the Indian context. Embark on a journey through the corridors of legislation, regulations, and policies governing inter-country adoption in India. This handbook serves as an indispensable resource, providing legal professionals, adoption agencies, policymakers, and concerned individuals with a thorough understanding of the nuanced and ever-evolving framework. This is not just a legal manual; it's a guide for ethical, informed decision-making. With navigational aids, practical guides, and procedural outlines, the handbook ensures that readers can traverse the adoption process with confidence and clarity. This handbook is your indispensable companion. Illuminate the path forward, informed by a profound understanding of the laws and policies that shape inter-country adoption in India.
This collection bridges the voices of international scholars and adopted persons to share knowledge about clinical practice with adopted people in adolescence and early adulthood. Coming at a time when countries are beginning to focus on adoption reform, this handbook is the first to address not only the external, systemic contributions to their developmental complexities but also the underlying, internal meanings of being adopted as children become adolescents and mature into adulthood. It explains how adopted clients differ from those not adopted and emphasizes the need for clinical research on adopted people in this older age group. Exploring how clinicians can understand their client’s clinical needs, it offers specific protocols and frameworks for assessment and necessary modifications in language and treatment. With a foreword by Miriam Steele, chapters examine the legal and sociopolitical cultures, policies, and practices in which adoption is embedded, calling for broad systemic change. Embracing theoretical, conceptual, and global perspectives, this handbook is written for clinicians in all disciplines, at all tiers of practice, administration, and training, identifying the key roles they can potentially play in expanding and better focusing our understanding of the psychology of being adopted.
Target MH-CET contains the detailed solutions of MH-CET 2007 to 2018. The solution to each and every question has been provided. The past papers will guide you in terms of what has been asked in the earlier years. Thus in all there are 10 past papers as the MH-CET paper was not held in 2013. This is followed by 5 Mock tests designed exactly as per the pattern of the 2018 MH-CET exam. Each Mock Test contains 200 questions on the 4 sections: Section I: Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (50) Section II: Quantitative Aptitude (50) Section III: Logical & Abstract Reasoning (100)
Most of the Competitive exams today test an aspirant's general awareness of India and its influencing factors. Most of the questions asked in these exams revolve around the new initiatives - various schemes, policies etc. - taken by the government during the recent times. The questions asks about the various features, objectives, stakeholders, beneficiaries, budgets, targets etc. involved in these initiatives. Thus General Knowledge/ Awareness about the Indian social, economic & political aspects is essential for success in any Competitive/ Recruitment exams. INDIA HANDBOOK 2018 FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMS by Disha is a comprehensive book with detailed theoretical content which covers an exhaustive listing of government Schemes & Yojanas, Policies & Plans, Important Bills & Acts, Constitution of India & the various amendments, various Courts’ Judgements, Summits/ Conferences, Agreements/ Accords, Organizations/ Alliances, Tribunals/ Regulators, Important Committees & their recommendations, Important Projects & Missions and many more. INDIA HANDBOOK FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMS covers all the latest trends in General Knowledge which a candidate aspiring for any competitive exams like IAS, State PSCs, SSC, Bank Clerk and PO, Railways, State Services Examinations and various PSUs such as NTPC, NHPC, BPCL, BSNL, DMRC, HAL, IOCL, SAIL, NPCL, DRDO etc. needs to be aware of. The book has been developed in accordance with the current pattern and trends in various competitive examinations. The book has been written in a lucid style for easy comprehension of the readers. Figures, Graphics and Tables have also been added wherever required. Hope the book will prove to be highly beneficial for you.
Since the late nineteen sixties, transnational adoption has emerged as a global phenomenon. Due to a sharp decline in infants being made available for adoption locally, involuntarily childless couples in Western Europe and North America who wish to create a family, have to look to look to countries in the poor South and Eastern Europe. The purpose of this book is to locate transnational adoption within a broad context of contemporary Western life, especially values concerning family, children and meaningful relatedness, and to explore the many ambiguities and paradoxes that the practice entails. Based on empirical research from Norway, the author identifies three main themes for analysis: Firstly, by focusing on the perceived relationship between biology and sociality, she examines how notions of child, childhood and significant relatedness vary across time and space. She argues that through a process of kinning, persons are made into kin. In the case of adoption, kinning overcomes a dominant cultural emphasis placed upon biological connectedness. Secondly, it is a study of the rise of expert knowledge in the understanding of 'the best interest of the child', and how the part played by the 'psycho.technocrats' effects national and international policy and practice of transnational adoption. Thirdly, it shows how transnational adoption both depends upon and helps to foster the globalisation of Western rationality and morality. The book is an original contribution to the anthropological study of kinship and globalisation.
The word “mother” traditionally meant a woman who bears and nurtures a child. In recent decades, changes in social norms and public policy as well as advances in reproductive technologies and the development of markets for procreation and care have radically expanded definitions of motherhood. But while maternity has become a matter of choice for more women, the freedom to make reproductive decisions is unevenly distributed. Restrictive policies, socioeconomic disadvantages, cultural mores, and discrimination force some women into motherhood and prevent others from caring for their children. Reassembling Motherhood brings together contributors from across the disciplines to consider the transformation of motherhood as both an identity and a role. It examines how the processes of bearing and rearing a child are being restructured as reproductive labor and care work change around the globe. The authors examine issues such as artificial reproductive technologies, surrogacy, fetal ultrasounds, adoption, nonparental care, and the legal status of kinship, showing how complex chains of procreation and childcare have simultaneously generated greater liberty and new forms of constraint. Emphasizing the tension between the liberalization of procreation and care on the one hand, and the limits to their democratization due to race, class, and global inequality on the other, the book highlights debates that have emerged as these multifaceted changes have led to both the fragmentation and reassembling of motherhood.
This book provides a fresh interdisciplinary analysis into the lives of migrant children and youth over the course of the twentieth century and up to the present day. Adopting biopolitics as a theoretical framework, the authors examine the complex interplay of structures, contexts and relations of power which influence the evolution of child migration across national borders. The volume also investigates children’s experiences, views, priorities and expectations and their roles as active agents in their own migration. Using a great variety of methodologies (archival research, ethnographic observation, interviews) and sources (drawings, documents produced by governments and experts, films and press), the authors provide richly documented case studies which cover a wide geographical area within Europe, both West (Belgium, France, Germany) and East (Romania, Russia, Ukraine), South (Italy, Portugal, Turkey) and North (Sweden), enabling a deep understanding of the diversity of migrant childhoods in the European context.