In Their Parents' Voices: Reflections on Raising Transracial Adoptees

Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda's In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories shared the experiences of twenty-four black and biracial children who had been adopted into white families in the late 1960s and 70s. The book has since become a standard resource for families and practitioners, and now, in this sequel, we hear from the parents of these remarkable families and learn what it was like for them to raise children across racial and cultural lines.These candid interviews shed light on the issues these parents encountered, what part race played during thirty plus years of parenting, what they learned about themselves, and whether they would recommend transracial adoption to others. Combining trenchant historical and political data with absorbing firsthand accounts, Simon and Roorda once more bring an academic and human dimension to the literature on transracial adoption.

Politics & Social Sciences

Simon, Rita

Roorda, Rhonda

Social Sciences

Columbia University Press

Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda's In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories shared the experiences of twenty-four black and biracial children who had been adopted into white families in the late 1960s and 70s. The book has since become a standard resource for families and practitioners, and now, in this sequel, we hear from the parents of these remarkable families and learn what it was like for them to raise children across racial and cultural lines. These candid interviews shed light on the issues these parents encountered, what part race played during thirty plus years of parenting, what they learned about themselves, and whether they would recommend transracial adoption to others. Combining trenchant historical and political data with absorbing firsthand accounts, Simon and Roorda once more bring an academic and human dimension to the literature on transracial adoption.

In Their Siblings’ Voices: White Non-Adopted Siblings Talk About Their Experiences Being Raised with Black and Biracial Brothers and Sisters

In Their Siblings' Voices shares the stories of twenty white non-adopted siblings who grew up with black or biracial brothers and sisters in the late 1960s and 1970s. Belonging to the same families profiled in Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda's In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories and In Their Parents' Voices: Reflections on Raising Transracial Adoptees, these siblings offer their perspectives on the multiracial adoption experience, which, for them, played out against the backdrop of two tumultuous, politically charged decades. Simon and Roorda question whether professionals and adoption agencies adequately trained these children in the challenges presented by blended families, and they ask if, after more than thirty years, race still matters. Few books cover both the academic and the human dimensions of this issue. In Their Siblings' Voices helps readers fully grasp the dynamic of living in a multiracial household and its effect on friends, school, and community.

This unprecedented study of sex trafficking, forced labor, organ trafficking, and sex tourism across twenty-four nations highlights the experiences of the victims, perpetrators, and anti-traffickers involved in this brutal trade. Combining statistical data with intimate accounts and interviews, journalist Stephanie Hepburn and justice scholar Rita J. Simon create a dynamic volume sure to educate and spur action. Hepburn and Simon recount the lives of victims during and after their experience with trafficking, and they follow the activities of traffickers before capture and their outcomes after sentencing. Each chapter centers on the trafficking practices and anti-trafficking measures of a single country: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, France, Germany, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Niger, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Syria, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Examining these nations' laws, Hepburn and Simon reveal gaps in legislation and enforcement and outline the cultural norms and biases, societal assumptions, and conflicting policies that make trafficking scenarios so pervasive and resilient. This study points out those most vulnerable in each nation and the specific cultural, economic, environmental, and geopolitical factors that contribute to each nation's trafficking issues. Furthermore, the study also highlights common phenomena that governments and international anti-traffickers should consider in their fight against this illicit trade.

Human Trafficking Around the World: Hidden in Plain Sight

Hepburn, Stephanie

Sociology

gendzier, Rhonda

Rita Simon, a founder member of the art therapy profession, focuses on the complex interplay between content and style in patients' work, arguing that it is style that reflects the habitual mood or attitude of the unconscious.

The Symbolism of Style: Art as Therapy

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Routledge

Rita Simon, a founder member of the art therapy profession, has been developing her understanding of the complex interplay between content and style in patints' work for over 40 years. In "The Symbolism of Style" she puts forward the thesis that, while a picture can speak through both its content and its style, it is the style which reflects the habitual mood or attitude of the unconscious. By looking at the progression of styles in children's work, it is possible to see the developmental stages to which at times it may be helpful for an adult temporarily to return. In the early stages of therapy, a patient's style can help the art therapist understand his or her underlying mood, and, later, a consistent change in style can indicate a radical change in the patient's grasp of reality. The therapist's understanding of the hidden meaning in the style can thus greatly enrich the therapeutic process and very often improve its outcome. From her long study of clinical material the author has developed a simple classification of the four basic styles, and their transitional stages, which recur in patient's work. This book should be of interest to art therapists.

Psychology & Counseling

In this absorbing account of her work with children and adults, individuals and groups, Rita Simon shows how the symbolic image and the style in which it is presented is often related to a particular stage in the integration of painful experiences. As the image and the style change, so does the individual who discovers previously untapped sources of creativity and inner strength. Richly documented with case studies and over 80 illustrations, Symbolic Images in Art as Therapy highlights the contribution both art and the art of the therapist can make in working to ease the effects of bereavement, depression, abuse, physical handicap or any other cause of mental distress.

Symbolic Images in Art as Therapy

Exercise & Fitness

In this absorbing account of her work with children and adults, individuals and groups, Rita Simon shows how the symbolic image and the style in which it is presented is often related to a particular stage in the integration of painful experiences. As the image and the style change, so does the individual who discovers previously untapped sources of creativity and inner strength. Richly documented with case studies and over 80 illustrations, Symbolic Images in Art as Therapy highlights the contribution both art and the art of the therapist can make in working to ease the effects of bereavement, depression, abuse, physical handicap or any other cause of mental distress.

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In Their Parents' Voices: Reflections on Raising Transracial Adoptees

In Their Parents' Voices: Reflections on Raising Transracial Adoptees

In Their Siblings’ Voices: White Non-Adopted Siblings Talk About Their Experiences Being Raised with Black and Biracial Brothers and Sisters

Human Trafficking Around the World: Hidden in Plain Sight

Human Trafficking Around the World: Hidden in Plain Sight

In Their Parents' Voices: Reflections on Raising Transracial Adoptees

The Symbolism of Style: Art as Therapy

The Symbolism of Style: Art as Therapy

Symbolic Images in Art as Therapy

Symbolic Images in Art as Therapy