Foster/Adoption

RESOURCES

What is Adoption?: Just For Kids Book Click Here

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10 Parenting Skills An Adoptee Wants Parents to Know: Click Here

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How to Build Trust with Your Adopted Child: Click Here

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How to Discipline a Foster Child Adopted Parenting Skills: Click Here

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What is the difference between Shame and Guilt in Adoption: Click Here

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Attachment-Focused Parenting Class: Click Here

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How to Parent a Child with Attachment Trauma: Click Here

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Parents Seeking Hope, Peace and Harmony for Parenting a Foster or Adopted Child: Click Here

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Books:

Bowlby, John: A Secure Base: Parent-Child Attachment and Healthy Human Development (1988)

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Brodzinsky, David: Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self (1993)

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Eldridge, Sherrie: Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew (2015)

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Eldridge, Sherrie: Twenty Things Adoptive Parents Need to Succeed (2009)

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Fessler, Ann: The Girls Who Went Away (2001)

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Forbes, H. & B.: Post Beyond Logic, Consequences, and Control: A Love-Based Approach to Helping Attachment-Challenged Children with Severe Behaviors (2006)

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Verrier, Nancy: The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child (2003)

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Verrier, Nancy: Coming Home to Self: Healing the Primal Wound (2010)