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Helpful reading about older children and children with attachment and bonding issues

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Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families with Special-Needs KidsA Guide for Parents and Professionals- Gregory Keck and Regina Kupecky

 

Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents  - Deborah Gray

 

Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children  - Daniel A Hughs

 

Raising Adopted Children, Revised Edition: Practical Reassuring Advice for Every Adoptive Parent  - Lois Ruskai Melina

 

Real Parents, Real Children: Parenting the Adopted Child  - Holly Van Gulden & Lisa M. Bartels-Rabb

 

Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self  - David Brodzinsky, Ph.D., Schechter & Henig

 

Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew  - Sherrie Eldridge

 

Toddler Adoption: The Weaver's Craft- Mary Hopkins-Best

 

Adopting the Older Child  - Claudia L. Jewett-Jarratt

 

Our Own: Adopting and Parenting the Older Child  - Trish Maskew

 

 

Can This Child Be Saved? Solutions For Adoptive and Foster Families - Foster W. Cline. M.D. & Cathy Helding

 

Children Who Shock and Surprise: A Guide to Attachment Disorders (New and Improved)  - Elizabeth Randolph, R.N., Ph.D.

 

Didn't I Tell You to Take Out the Trash: Techniques for Getting Kids to Do Chores Without Hassles Foster W. Cline, M.D. & Jim Fay

 

Facilitating Developmental Attachment: The Road to Emotional Recovery and Behavioral Change in Foster and Adopted Children - Daniel A. Hughes, Ph.D and Jason Aronson

 

Give them roots, then let them fly: Understanding attachment therapy  - Carol A. McKelvey, M.A.

 

Helping Children Cope with Separation and Loss, Revised Edition  - Claudia L. Jewett-Jaratt

 

Help for the Hopeless Child: A Guide for Families  - Dr. Ronald S. Federici

 

Holding Time  - Martha G. Welch, M.D.

 

Hope for High Risk and Rage Filled Children- Reactive Attachment Disorder: Theory and Intrusive Therapy - Foster W. Cline, M.D.

 

Journey Of The Adopted Self: A Quest For Wholeness  - Betty Jean Lifton, Ph.D.

 

Parenting With Love And Logic (Updated and Expanded Edition)  - Foster Cline, M.D. & Jim Fay

 

Healing Trust: Rebuilding the Broken Bond for the Child With Reactive Attachment Disorder(2 excellent video tapes - also available in audio tape format)

Nancy Thomas  www.nancythomasparenting.com

 

Talking with Young Children about Adoption - Susan Fisher, M.D. & Mary Watkins, Ph.D.

 

Healing Power of the Family: Illustrated Overview of Life with the Disturbed Foster or Adopted Child  - Richard J. Delaney, Ph.D and Wood N. Barnes, 1998

 

The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder, Revised Edition  - Carol Stock Kranowitz, M.A.

 

Troubled Transplants: Unconventional Strategies for Helping Disturbed Foster and Adopted Children - Richard Delaney, Ph.D. & Frank R. Kunstal, Ed/D

 

When Love Is Not Enough: A Guide to Parenting Children with RAD 

Nancy Thomas   www.nancythomasparenting.com

 

Attachment of Traumatized Children - Dr. Bruce Perry 

http://childtraumaacademy.org/Documents/AttCar4_03_v2.pdf

 

The Connected Child: Bring hope and healing to your adoptive family  - Dr. Karyn Purvis, Dr. David Cross, Wendy Lyons Sunshine

 

Orphans of the Living: Stories of America's Children in Foster Care  - Jennifer Toth

 

Clinical and Practice Issues in Adoption--Revised and Updated: Bridging the Gap Between Adoptees Placed as Infants and as Older Children - Victor Groza, Karen F. Rosenberg

 

Creating Ceremonies: Innovative Ways to Meet Adoption Challenges  - Cheryl A. Lieberman and Rhea K. Bufferd

 

Eden's Secret Journal - The Story of an Older Child Adoption  - By Brenda McCreight

Other excellent places to find helpful books to fit your specific situation:

 

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