Transitioning and launching children to adulthood can be challenging enough without the added complexities of adoption and trauma. Adult adoptees often have a harder time trusting their adoptive parents during this crucial developmental stage and adoptive parents may want to help but not know how. Christina and Elaine, adoption professionals and adoptive moms of adult adoptees, share: Ways to stay connected while launching, How the 7 core issues in adoption cycle through this stage, Help for families who are struggling with mental health, intellectual and physical disabilities, Understanding the role attachment and other traumas play in this transition, Framing for conversations that can be difficult, Healing for adoptive parents and adult adoptees, Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) that can be used for relationship building, Encouragement for the journey because parenting is a relationship that never ends! Book jacket.