The adoptive parents' handbook A guide to healing trauma and thriving with your foster or adopted child
Book - 2020
"The essential guide to parenting adopted and foster kids--learn to create felt safety, heal attachment trauma, and navigate challenging behaviors and triggers"--
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Berkeley :
North Atlantic Books
[2020]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-326) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781623175153
- Foreword
- Preface
- Part 1. Creating Felt Safety
- 1. Origins
- 2. Trauma: How a Gastroenterologist Changed How the World Thinks about Trauma
- 3. Infant Trauma
- 4. PTSD and Fight, Flight, and Freeze
- 5. Olympic-Level Self-Care
- 6. Attachment
- 7. Healing Attachment Damage
- 8. Good Discipline Strategies
- 9. Routines and Rituals
- Part 2. Emotional Regulation
- 10. Adoption (or Placement) Stages: How Children Grieve
- 11. Attunement and Manipulation: All Behavior Communicates
- 12. Reflective Listening and Emotional Modeling
- 13. Sensory Success
- Part 3. Identity
- 14. Transracial and Transethnic Adoption
- 15. Older Child Adoption
- 16. Working with Birth Family
- 17. Talking with Your Child about Adoption
- 18. Lifebooks: Not just for the Crafty
- Part 4. Living and Thriving with PTSD
- 19. The Child You Have
- 20. Sleep and Food Strategies
- 21. How to Choose the Right Therapist
- 22. Working with Schools
- 23. PTSD and Medical Care
- 24. Siblings
- 25. Lying and Stealing
- 26. When It's More Than PTSD: ADHD, FASD, Autism
- 27. While You Are Waiting and the First Few Months
- 28. Foster Care: Licensed to Parent
- 29. When Things Are Really Hard
- 30. Leaving Home
- 31. Troubleshooting: The Q and A Section
- Book List
- Movie List
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author