Adoption Videos - Documentary - Educational Films
These adoption documentaries and educational films on video, offering education for families, professionals, advocates, and lawmakers., make excellent choices for agencies, support groups, and other teaching and advocacy venues. Topics include adoption practices, adopting, building family relationships, and factual accounts of family experiences. Listed alphabetically.
1) Bonding Through Touch: Infant Massage for Adoptive Families This video, produced by Three Hearts, LLC, teaches parents how to massage their infants and children with a loving touch. Massage promotes attachment and bonding by reinforcing gentle, close, loving contact between parents, siblings, and the new child.
Read ReviewVendor's Site 2) In The Sun: A Complete Guide to Adoption A "how to adopt" video. It includes information about the various types of adoption, children (ages, domestic, international), legal and financial considerations, presented in a series of conversations with couples and comments by adoption professionals.
3) Precious Cargo Originally aired on November 11, 2001 (PBS), this remarkable film is being made available on video. The story follows a group of young Vietnamese adoptees on a homeland visit, and includes information on Operation Babylift. The film is both political and intensely personal. Purchase for non-commercial educational use only.
Read ReviewVendor's Site 4) Out of the Fog: Mothers Speak About Adoption This educational video featuring women who have lost their children to adoption is being made available free on the Web. Addressing issues such as open records, language, choice, and adoption practice, the video is the creation of independent filmmaker Suzie Kidnap.
Read ReviewPublisher's Site 5) Seven Core Issues of Adoption Sharon Kaplan and Deborah Silverstein discuss the issues of loss, rejection, guilt and shame, grief, identity, intimacy, and mastery/control with an audience of triad members. Excellent choice for support groups and adoption educators.
6) Unlocking the Heart of Adoption This documentary, filmed by Sheila Ganz over the course of several years with input from families around the entire spectrum of adoption, is intended to educate, encourage dialog, and raise awareness. An excellent choice for educators and adoption professionals, as well as our families.
Read ReviewVendor's Site 7) Was I In Your Tummy, Mommy? This 90-minute video was created by Spence-Chapin's Adoption Resources Center and presents teaching sessions with parents addressing the "tummy" question, as well as questions about children who don't ask questions, and dealing with questions and comments from others.
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While I think that more people should be encouraged to read these days, I know videos can be an excellent tool for learning and teaching more about adoption. I think it is especially critical for children pre-literacy to get visual images that help them start to make sense of their identities as adopted persons, and particularly to know that there are others like them out there, and that their life is a blessing and is special to everyone they touch and will touch. I also think it's incredibly important that educators include videos about adoption and issues about adoption in general in their daily lives, particularly if they know there are adoptees in their classrooms. I think creating an open environment for children and families that includes visual aids really can help children process the information more effectively.
Similarly, I think videos for adult adoptees can help create a community of support for those that think they might be alone in their feelings surrounding their own adoptions. The combination of books and videos can really encapsulate a wide ranges of feelings and experiences and help the healing process, which I realize never is fully complete.
Posted by: avalanche at 11/10/2005 11:22 AM
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