Guest Posts by Addison

I'm glad to share about adoption, movies, family communication, and self-care for social workers in several venues. Here's a list of where I've been. If you think your audience would be interested in the stuff I write, please contact me. I'm glad to talk about communication in adoptive families to as many people as will listen!

Summer 2014 - New Social Worker: Belle

June 2014 - Adoption Today: How to Train Your Dragon 2 Review

Spring 2014 - Adoptive Families: Q&A: Closure

Spring 2014 - New Social Worker: The Oscars and Thanking People Who Helped Along the Way

3/30/14 - New Social Worker: Because I Wanted to Help People

3/24/14 - Children's Home Society of Minnesota: Film of the Year

March 2014 Foster Focus Magazine: Movie Review - Beasts of the Southern Wild

2/27/14 America Adopts: Get Talking About Adoption with Oscar-Nominated Movies

Feb 2014 New Social Worker: Single Adoptive Dads in Film

Fall 2013 Adoptive Families: Emotional Pictures

9/10/13 Shared Grace: What and Why

July 2013 New Social Worker Blog: Movies Aren't Just for Off-Hours

Summer 2013: New Social Worker Magazine: Does This Movie Make My Attitude Look Big?

June 2013 Foster Focus Magazine vol 3 issue 1: Special Review: CAMP

5/13/13     Coalition for Children Youth and Families: How to Help Kids in Foster Care

3/25/13      Adoption Magazine: Adoption Themes in Movies

3/18/13       Reel Spirituality: The Adoption Connection: Beasts of the Southern Wild

3/15/13       Openness in Adoption - Presentation to Southwest Missouri Coalition of Adoption
                   Professionals, Springfield, MO

2/21/13       America Adopts: Using Movies to Talk about Open Adoption

2/14/13        Social Jerk: 4 Things Social Workers Can Do to Avoid Burning Out

2/6/13          Reel Spirituality: The Adoption Connection: Batman Begins

1/21/13        Families Online Magazine: 3 Ways You Can to Teach Your Kids to be Thankful

12/26/12       Wife then Mama: Why it's So Hard to Get Out of Foster Care, and How to Help

12/25/12       Reel Spirituality: The Adoption Connection: The Santa Clause

12/12/12       AmericanHistoryUSA.com: Have Adoptions Been Historically Closed or Open?

11/29/12       Reel Spirituality: The Adoption Connection: Superman the Movie

11/28/12       Jobland.US: Working as a Social Worker

10/25/12       Reel Spirituality: The Adoption Connection: Tarzan

09/06/12       Reel Spirituality: The Adoption Connection: The Odd Life of Timothy Green

1/14/12         Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs as a Starting Point for Care and Self-Care: Presentation to the
                     Southern California Chapter of the North American Association of Christians in Social Work -
                     Ontario, CA