Recommended Reading
- Adoption
- Attachment
- Adoption and Teens
- Kinship Care
- Sensory Issues
- Connected Parenting
- Understanding the Effects of Trauma
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
By Sherrie Eldridge
Adopting after Infertility: Messages from Practice, Research, and Personal Experience (1st Edition)
By Rachel Balen, Marilyn Crawshaw
Adopting On Your Own: The Complete Guide to Adoption for Single Parents
By Lee Varon
The Adoption Experience: Families Who Give Children a Second Chance
By Ann Morris
Adoption is a Family Affair: What Relatives and Friends Must Know
By Patricia Irwin Johnston
Adoption and Loss: The Hidden Grief
By Evelyn Burns Robinson
Adoption Wisom: A Guide to the Issues and Feelings of Adoption
By Marlou Russell PhD
In On It: What Adoptive Parents Would Like You To Know About Adoption
By Elisabeth O’Toole
Creating Ceremonies: Innovative Ways to Meet Adoption Challenges
By Cheryl A. Liebernan, PhD and Rhea K. Bufferd, LCSW
The Family of Adoption: Completely Revised and Updated
By Joyce Maguire Pavao
International Adoption: Sensitive Advice for Prospective Parents
By Jean Knoll and Mary-Kate Murphy
Twenty Life-Transforming Choices Adoptees Need to Make (2nd Edition)
By Sherrie Eldridge<
Love Me, Feed Me: The Adoptive Parent’s Guide to Ending the Worry ABout Weight, Picky Eating, Power Struggles, and More
By Katja Rowell MD
The Open Adoption Experience – A Complete Guide for Adoptive and Birth Families
By Lois Ruskai Melina
The Post-Adoption Blues: Overcoming the Unforeseen Challenges of Adoption
By Karen J. Foli, PhD
Small Feats: Unsung Accomplishments and Everyday Heroics of Foster and Adoptive Parents
By Richard J. Delaney, PhD
The Spirit of Open Adoption
By James L. Gritter
Telling the Truth to your Adopted or Foster Child: Making Sense of the Past (2nd Edition)
By Betsey Keefer, Jayne E. Schooler, Bergin & Garvey
Toddler Adoption: The Weaver’s Craft Revised Edition
By Mary Hopkins-Best
The Whole Life Adoption Book: Realistic Advice for Building a Healthy Adoptive Family
By Jayne E. Schooler and Thomas C. Atwood<
You Can Adopt: An Adoptive Families Guide
By Susan Caughman and Isolde Motley
Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today’s Parents Reprint Edition
By Deborah D. Gray
Attachment in Common Sense and Doodles: A Practical Guide
By Miriuam Silver
Becoming a Family: Promoting Healthy Attachments with Your Adopted Child
By Lark Eshleman, PhD
Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Traumatized Children, Third Edition
By Daniel Hughes
Connecting with Kids Through Stories: Using Narratives to Facilitate Attachment in Adopted Children Second Edition
By Melissa Nichols, Denise B. Lacher, Joanne C. May, Todd Nichols
Creating Loving Attachments: Parenting with PACE to Nurture Confidence and Security in the Troubled Child
By Daniel Hughes, Kim Golding
Everyday Parenting with Security and Love: Using PACE to Provide Foundations for Attachment
By Kim Golding
Games and Activities for Attaching With Your Child
By Deborah D. Gray, Megan Clarke
I Love You Rituals
By Becky A. Bailey
New Families, Old Scripts: A Guide to the Language of Trauma and Attachment in Adoptive Families
By Caroline Archer
Nurturing Attachments: Supporting Children Who Are Fostered or Adopted
By Kim Golding
Parenting with Theraplay®: Understanding Attachment and How to Nurture a Closer Relationship with Your Child
By Helen Rodwell, Dr. Vivien Norris
The Connected Parent: Real-Life Strategies for Building Trust and Attachment
By Lisa Qualls, Dr. Karyn Purvis
Beneath the Mask: Understanding Adopted Teens
By Debbie Riley
Building Self-Esteem in Children and Teens Who Are Adopted or Fostered
By Dr. Sue Cornbluth
Building Self-Esteem in Children and Teens Who Are Adopted or Fostered
By Rachel Staff
Parenting in the Eye of the Storm: The Adoptive Parent’s Guide to Navigating the Teen Years
By Katie Naftzger
Courageous Love: Instructions for Creating Healing Circles for Children of Trauma for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
By Laura Montané Bailey
Grandparents as Parents, Second Edition: A Survival Guide for Raising a Second Family
By Sylvie de Toledo and Deborah Elder Brown
Relatives Raising Children: An Overview of Kinship Care
By Joseph Crumbley, Robert L. Little
Raising Your Children’s Children: Help for Grandparents Raising Grandkids
By Martha Evans Sparks
The Kinship Parenting Toolbox
By Kim Phagan Hansel
Everyday Games for Sensory Processing Disorder: 100 Playful Activities to Empower Children with Sensory Differences
By Barbara Sher
How to Be a Superhero Called Self-Control!: Super Powers to Help Younger Children to Regulate their Emotions and Senses
By Lauren Brukner
Improving Sensory Processing in Traumatized Children: Practical Ideas to Help Your Child’s Movement, Coordination and Body Awareness
By Sarah Lloyd
Raising a Sensory Smart Child: The Definitive Handbook for Helping Your Child with Sensory Processing Issues, Revised Edition
By Lindsey Biel
The Kids’ Guide to Staying Awesome and In Control: Simple Stuff to Help Children Regulate their Emotions and Senses
By Lauren Brukner
The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder (The Out-of-Sync Child Series)
By Carol Kranowitz
Understanding Your Child’s Sensory Signals: A Practical Daily Use Handbook for Parents and Teachers 3rd Edition
By Angie Voss OTR
Disorganized Children: A Guide for Parents and Professionals
By Uttom Chowdhury, Samuel Stein
Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control: A Love-Based Approach to Helping Attachment-Challenged Children With Severe Behaviors
By Heather T. Forbes
Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control, Vol. 2
By Heather T. Forbes
The Connected Child: Bring hope and healing to your adoptive family
By Karyn B. Purvis
The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children
By Ross W. Greene, PhD
Gentle Discipline: Using Emotional Connection–Not Punishment–to Raise Confident, Capable Kids
By Sarah Ockwell-Smith
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
By Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish
A Short Introduction to Promoting Resilience in Children
By Colby Pearce
No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind
By Daniel J. Siegel
The Opposite of Worry: The Playful Parenting Approach to Childhood Anxieties and Fears
By Lawrence J. Cohen
Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions: Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills to Help Your Child Regulate Emotional Outbursts and Aggressive Behaviors
By Pat Harvey ACSW LCSW-C, Jeanine Penzo LICSW
Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive: 10th Anniversary Edition
By Deaniel J. Siegel and Mary Hartzell
Parenting Strategies to Help Adopted and Fostered Children with Their Behaviour: Trauma-Informed Guidance and Action Charts
By Christine Gordon
Parenting a Teen Who Has Intense Emotions: DBT Skills to Help Your Teen Navigate Emotional and Behavioral Challenges
By Pat Harvey, Britt H. Rathbone
Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting
By Dr. Laura Markham
Playful Parenting: An Exciting New Approach to Raising Children That Will Help You Nurture Close Connections, Solve Behavior Problems, and Encourage Confidence
Lawrence J. Cohen
Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child
By Ross W. Greene, PhD
Reparenting the Child Who Hurts: A Guide to Healing Developmental Trauma and Attachments 1st Edition
By Christine Gordon, Caroline Archer
Self-Reg: How to Help Your Child (and You) Break the Stress Cycle and Successfully Engage with Life
By Stuart Shanker
The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind
By Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
Why Can’t My Child Behave?: Empathic Parenting Strategies that Work for Adoptive and Foster Families
By Amber Elliott
Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal
By Donna Jackson Nakazawa
From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development
By Jack Shonkoff
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
By Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist’s Notebook–What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing
By Bruce D. Perry MD, PhD, and Maia Szalavitz
The Simple Guide to Child Trauma: What It Is and How to Help
By Betsy de Thierry
Trauma is Really Strange
By Steve Haines, Sophie Standing
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
By Peter A. Levine