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    Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child


Who Is Patty Cogen?

Find out more about Patty and her education, experience and current work. Click on Bio.


Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child--from your first hours together through the teen years

Patty's shares the insights and strategies from a decade of First Year Home Groups. You can review the entire table of contents and read several excerps on Amazon. Order from Amazon,Tapestry Books or your local bookstore. Click on Book.for more information.


What To Expect When You Adopt Internationally

Access both published and unpublished articles including those frequently referenced by Adoptive Families Magazine, Transracial Adoption Resources (NYSCCC), Families with Children from Russia and Eastern Europe, Families with Children From China (their Top Ten Reads Before Adopting Internationally). Click on Articles


The First Year Home Group

Find out more about the nationally recognized support and education group for parents and internationally adopted children. Click on First Year Home Group


Contact Information

For additional information please call: (206) 378-0477.








Upcoming Events
Article in Fall, 2008, issue of WA-Association of Family Therapist Newsletter

Lecture for Child Therapy Association, Seattle, Oct.15, 2008, 7:30-9:30pm. (CEU's available)


Recent Events or Publications

-Lecture at Scripps College, "The Amazing, Flexible Brains of Parents and Children", July 2008

- Interview on KHUM radio (104.3 FM), California, July 2008.

-Article in Adoptive Families Magazine, August, 2008, "What's On Their Minds?"

- Book publication Party! Queen Anne Books, Thursday, June 5, 2008.

- Lecture,WACAP Adoption Agency, Renton, WA, June, 2008