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A for Adoption:

An Exploration of the Adoption Experience
for Families and Professionals

Providing a psychoanalytic view on adoption, addressing emotional pain and trauma while offering guidance for families and professionals to understand it's emotional complexities and navigate challenges. to support the adoption journey

"Alison Roy is my go-to child and adolescent psychotherapist whenever I have a letter to reply to in my Guardian column which concerns adoption. Her ability, in particular, to put across the possible viewpoint of the child, is especially important and helpful to me; but her empathy and insight into the whole picture is fantastically useful and thought-provoking."

Annalisa Barbieri, The Guardian.

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'Essential for adoptive parents seeking deeper understanding of their child's experiences.'

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"This highly accessible and very readable book is written for a broad readership – it might be said that it is written for every one of us. It explores the complex and multi-faceted experiences of adoption in a deeply thoughtful and emotionally compelling way. This is an important book on many levels – it will speak to child psychotherapists, professional colleagues, young people and families and it can add powerfully to the conversation with services, commissioners and policy makers." Marie Bradley, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist