ABSTRACT
Children adopted as infants can also grow up with questions, doubts, and, at times, deep-seated insecurity, if their past is shrouded in secrecy or if caregivers show anxiety about sharing what they know about children’s biological parents or pre-adoptive experiences. Life story work provides a structure to normalize sharing and reduce stress. The Life Storybook process helps children and parents to transform non-verbalized feelings of tension, fear, or sadness into pictures and words. The RLH Session Struc - ture provides a means for adoptive parents to connect with children, to show children they can validate their experiences, to help them grieve losses, and to help them streng - then attachments to their adoptive families.
