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The girl behind the door : a father's quest to understand his daughter's suicide  Cover Image Book Book

The girl behind the door : a father's quest to understand his daughter's suicide / John Brooks.

Brooks, John, 1956- (author.).

Summary:

"Early one Tuesday morning John Brooks went to his teenage daughter's room to make sure she was getting up for school and found her room dark and "neater than usual." Casey was gone but he found a note: The car is parked at the Golden Gate Bridge. I'm sorry. Several hours later a security video was found that showed Casey stepping off the bridge. Brooks spent months after Casey's suicide trying to understand what led his seventeen-year-old daughter to take her life. He examines Casey's journey from her abandonment at birth in Poland, to the orphanage where she lived for the first fourteen months of her life, to her adoption and life with John and his wife Erika in Northern California. He reads. He talks to Casey's friends, teachers, doctors, therapists, and other parents. He consults adoption experts, researchers, clinicians, attachment therapists, and social workers. In The Girl Behind the Door, Brooks shares what he learned and asks "What did everyone miss? What could have been done differently?" He'd come to realize that Casey might have been helped if someone had recognized that she'd likely suffered an attachment disorder from her infancy--an affliction common among children who've been orphaned, neglected, and abused. This emotional deprivation in early childhood, from the lack of a secure attachment to a primary caregiver, can lead to a wide range of serious behavioral issues later in life. John's hope is that Casey's story, and what he discovered since her death, will help others. This important book is a wakeup call that parents, mental health professionals, and teens should read"--Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781501128349 (hardcover) :
  • Physical Description: 216 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2016.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject: Brooks, Casey, > Mental health.
Brooks, John, 1956- > Family.
Adopted children > Biography.
Adopted children > Family relationships.
Attachment disorder in adolescence.
Fathers and daughters > Biography.
Suicide > Biography.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Lakeshore Branch 362.28092 Brook 31681010001212 NONFIC Available -


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