"This book is a 'must
read'
for everyone touched
by
adoption."
About the Author
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
a NBC made-for-TV movie about
adoption. He 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" and in the
MediaStorm 2011 documentary "Broken
Lines" as well as profiled in the
International Museum of Women.
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.