By Kathryn Sandford
“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.” Maya Angelou
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The psychological effects on a birth parent who places their child for adoption can often be overlooked.
To say all mothers are created equal is both true and false. I don’t exactly know the validity of this statement because I’m not a mother by biology. I’m a mom by adoption.
Normal bereavement and major depression share many of the same symptoms. And because of those similarities, psychiatrists have historically carved out what is known as a "bereavement exclusion." Its purpose was to reduce the likelihood that normal grief would be diagnosed as clinical depression.
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I believe that social workers need to focus on that which we are trained to do: extend civic love and compassion to the client, staring where he or she is. We are not wed to the medical model; social work is ecological, psychosocial, and systems oriented.