"This book is a 'must
read'
for everyone touched
by adoption."
About the Authors
Joe
Soll
조살,
the author of Adoption
Healing... a path to recovery
(one for adoptees ,one for
mothers who lost children to
adoption, and one for both) and
co-author of Evil
Exchange
and Fatal
Flight is a
diplomate psychotherapist
and lecturer internationally recognized as
an expert in adoption
related issues and a former adjunct
professor of social work at Fordham
University Graduate School. He is director
and co-founder of Adoption
Crossroads in New York City, a non-profit
organization
that
helps
reunite and gives support to adoptees,
original parents and
those who have adopted.
.
Adoption Crossroads is affiliated with
more than 450 mental
health institutions and adoption search and
support groups in eight
countries, representing more than 500,000
individuals whose lives have
been affected by adoption. Adoption
Crossroads is also dedicated
to educating the public about adoption
issues, preserving families and
reforming current adoption practices.
The director and
founder of the Adoption Counseling
Center in New York City, Mr. Soll is
also co-organizer and
co-chair of the New York State Adoption
Agency Task Force; a member of
Matilda Cuomo's 1993 Advisory Council on
the “Adoption Option”;
conference chair and board member of the
American Adoption Congress,
and a
former trustee of the
International Soundex Reunion
Registry. He's a fellow of the
American
Orthopsychiatric
Association, the American Association of
Grief Counselors, and a member
of the Council on Social Work Education,
the National Association of
Social
Workers and the National Academy of
Television Arts and Sciences
.
Since 1989, Mr.
Soll has organized and
coordinated ten international mental
health conferences on adoption
attended by
mental health professionals. He has
been an expert witness in
court about adoption related issues and
has lectured widely at adoption
agencies, social work schools, mental
health facilities and mental
health conferences in the U.S. and
Canada.
Mr. Soll has
appeared on radio and
television more
than 300 times, given more than 130
lectures on adoption related issues
and has been featured or quoted in more
than three dozen newspapers,
books and magazines. In 1994 he was
portrayed as a therapist in
the NBC made-for-TV movie about adoption,
The Other Mother. He
recently played himself in the HBO
original movie Reno Finds Her
Mom. He was featured in the
2001 Telly Award winning Global
Japan documentary, “Adoption Therapist:
Joe Soll”
His own
story as an adoptee has been
presented
more than thirty times on Unsolved
Mysteries. He has walked the
250 miles from New York City to
Washington, D.C. six times to create
public awareness of the need for adoption
reform. He resides in
Congers, NY and maintains an office in New
York City.
and
support groups in eight
countries, representing more than 500,000
individuals whose lives have
been affected by adoption. Adoption
Crossroads is also dedicated
to educating the public about adoption
issues, preserving families and
reforming current adoption practices.