Book
Attaching in adoption : practical tools for today's parents / Deborah D. Gray. --
Record details
- ISBN: 1849058903 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9781849058902 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 393 p. : ill.
- Publisher: London : Jessica Kingsley, 2012, c2002.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published: Indianapolis : Perspectives Press, 2002. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 376-384), Internet addresses (p. 371-376) and index. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 29.95 |
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| Subject: | Adoption. Attachment behavior in children. Attachment disorder in children. Adopted children > Family relationships. |
- Book News
A reprint from 2002, this volume by Gray, a clinical social worker specializing in attachment, grief, and trauma and former therapeutic foster parent, helps prospective and current adoptive parents understand, care for, and promote healthy attachment in their adopted child who has challenges in attachment due to neglect, grief, abuse, or prenatal exposure to substance. She explains what attachment is, how grief and trauma can affect children's emotional development, and how to improve attachment, respect, cooperation, and trust. She discusses the impacts of cultural change, attention-deficit disorder, fetal alcohol syndrome, and profound neglect, and techniques for helping these children, including expected patterns of progress and how to calm anxiety and reduce control, talk to siblings, build emotional intelligence, form a team of support, and get professional help. A companion book, Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience after Trauma and Neglect, details home and therapy processes for use by professionals. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) - Jessica Kingsley Pub
This classic text is a comprehensive guide for prospective and actual adoptive parents on how to understand and care for their adopted child and promote healthy attachment. It explains what attachment is and provides parenting techniques matched to children's emotional needs and stages to enhance children's happiness and emotional health. - Jessica Kingsley Pub
Attaching in Adoption is a comprehensive guide for prospective and actual adoptive parents on how to understand and care for their adopted child and promote healthy attachment.
This classic text provides practical parenting strategies designed to enhance children's happiness and emotional health. It explains what attachment is, how grief and trauma can affect children's emotional development, and how to improve attachment, respect, cooperation and trust. Parenting techniques are matched to children's emotional needs and stages, and checklists are included to help parents assess how their child is doing at each developmental stage. The book covers a wide range of issues including international adoption, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, and learning disabilities, and combines sound theory and direct advice with case examples throughout.
This book is a must read for anyone interested in adoption and for all adoptive families. It will also be a valuable resource for adoption professionals.
