Synopses & Reviews
Fantastic Antone Grows Up is a field guide to life with an adolescent or young adult with fetal alcohol syndrome/effects. Under the best of circumstances, adolescence is a trying time for young people and their families. The budding adult seeks independence and autonomy while the resistant child within longs for protection and structure; questions about sexuality and work, social commitments, and solitary accomplishments loom large and can create a family battlefield. For the challenged and challenging young people with FAS/E, the circumstances as they begin maturing are never the best. In this sequel to Fantastic Antone Succeeds, young people with FAS/E and their caregivers report on their experiences coping with the problems of adolescence and young adulthood. Again the editors and authors have concentrated on the wisdom of practice, as they candidly convey which techniques worked and which did not during the difficult passages of the teenage years and beyond. The twenty-one chapters are grouped according to theme. Section one discusses the meaning of success for adolescents and adults with FAS/E -- the need to define success in new ways. Cindy Gere found her path to success, for example, through creative expression. She graduated from college with a degree in fine arts and successfully completed a program in art. Many of her paintings, including the one illustrating the cover of this book, provide a poignant and candid expression of what FAS/E means to her. Section two discusses strategies that work in areas such as counseling, education, sexuality, trouble with the law, and independent living. Section three covers what families need from the community, including innovative programs that help individuals with FAS/E, and how to get a diagnosis at adolescence. The book also contains important resources, organizations to contact, and internet addresses. More has been learned about how alcohol poisoning in the womb alters brain function and physical development since the release of Fantastic Antone Succeeds, but science is far from providing the answers that affected young people and their caregivers need. Until such answers are forthcoming, nothing can replace the voices of experience with their practical messages of coping, caring, loving, weeping, laughing, and -- more often than might be expected -- succeeding.
Synopsis
The great demand for Fantastic Antone Succeeds demonstrated need for communication about FAS/E among young people with FAS/E and their caregivers. This sequel book again offers the wisdom of practice in candid discussions about difficult transitions of adolescence and young adulthood. Section one discusses the meaning of success for adolescents and adults with FAS/E--and the need to define success in new ways. Section two offers strategies in areas such as counseling, education, sexuality, legal problems, and independent living. Section three covers what families need from the community, including innovative programs that help individuals with FAS/E and how to get a diagnosis at adolescence. It also contains lists of important resources, including organizations, innovative programs at the community level, publications, and contact information.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-407) and index.
About the Author
Judith Kleinfeld is founder and director of the Northern Studies program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She has published numerous books and articles, including Gender Tales: Tensions in the Schools (St. Martin's Press, 1995) and two books on fetal alcohol syndrome/effects, Fantastic Antone Succeeds and Fantastic Antone Grows Up(University of Alaska Press 1994, 2000).
Table of Contents
Foreword/Fantastic Antone is Growing Up
Sally Caldwell Acknowledgments
Judith Kleinfeld IntroductionThe Roller Coaster Ride of Life with FAS/E
Judith Kleinfeld Part OneWhat is Success for Adolescents and Adults with FAS? Chapter 1Works in Progress: The Meaning of Success for Individuals with FAS/E
Jan Lutke Chapter 2Ryland's Gift: How My Son Taught Me To Be a Good Mother
Mary Lou Cannery Chapter 3The Graduate: College for Students with FAS/E
Anne Ruggles Gere and Cindy Gere Chapter 4Living Independently: A Mother's Tale
Marceil Ten Eyck Chapter 5Why I Chose to Live Alone
Sidney Guimont Chapter 6How I Grew Up with FAE
Stef Pummell Chapter 7Creating an "External Brain": Supporting a Mother and Child with FAS
Susan Doctor Chapter 8Finding Hope in a Troubled Life
Janeen Bohmann Part TwoStrategies taht Work: Education, Counseling, Sexuality, Trouble with the Law, Living Skills Chapter 9Working with Adolescents in High School:Techniques that Help
Debra Evensen Chapter 10Finding the Right School for Devorah
Diane Malbin Chapter 11Adapting Talk Therapy for Individuals with FAS/E
Susan L. Baxter Chapter 12Trouble with the Law
Marie Jones Chapter 13Sexuality and Young Adults with FAS/E
Sara Miranda and Karen Levine Chapter 14Growing Up with FAS/E
Pamela Groupe Groves Chapter 15Reaching Independence Day: Managing the Behavior of Teenagers
Jim Slinn Chapter 16Adolescents with Disabilities: Insights for Individuals with FAS/E
Claire D. Coles and Mary Ellen Lynch Part ThreeWhat Families Need from the Community Chapter 17Using Community Mentors to Help Teenagers Develop Social Skills
Janet Adams Chapter 18Community Involvement: Lessons from Native Americans
Rodger Hornby Chapter 19Relinquishing Our Christmas Child So We Could Reclaim Him
Ann Michael Chapter 20Caring for the Caregivers: Family Support and Empowerment
Georgiana Wilton, Raymond Kessel, and Moira Chamberlain Clark Chapter 21Diagnosis and Thereafter: What We Know Now andWhere We are Going
Barabara A. Morse ConclusionWhat the Wisdom of Practice Teaches Us About FAS/E atAdolescence and Young Adulthood
Judith Kleinfeld AfterwordBroken Beaks and Wobbly Wings
Teresa Kellerman Appendix OneThe Case of Ida
The Honorable Judge C. Cunliffe Barnett Appendix TwoAnnotated Bibliography of Resources
David A. and Gail S. Hales Works CitedIndex