Attachment
Featured Books
Raising Your Spirited Child: A Guide for Parents Whose Child Is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, and Energetic
Dr. Mary Sheedy Kurcinka’s classic parenting guide helps parents understand why children behave the way they do and how to respond with empathy and structure. Using vivid examples and a simple four-step program, she shows how to replace negative labels with positive ones, recognize both your child’s and your own temperamental traits, and navigate everyday challenges like tantrums, mealtimes, and bedtimes. With practical strategies and encouragement, this book equips parents to turn tough moments into opportunities for growth and connection.
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A Child’s Journey Through Placement
This practical guide is designed for social workers, adoption professionals, and foster parents seeking to better support children in care. It explores the importance of attachment and separation, the unique developmental stages of adopted children, and strategies to minimize the trauma of moves. With clear advice on case planning, behavior management, and direct work with children, the book combines professional insight with case studies and exercises, making it a valuable resource for learning and applying best practices in child welfare.
Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control: A Love-Based Approach to Helping Attachment-Challenged Children With Severe Behaviors
This hopeful and practical book goes beyond theory to help parents understand and support children who struggle with attachment. The opening chapters explain the neurological research behind “The Stress Model,” while the following sections focus on seven common behaviors in attachment-challenged kids—such as lying, stealing, hoarding, aggression, defiance, and lack of eye contact. With insight and compassion, the author provides both understanding and concrete strategies, offering parents guidance and encouragement as they navigate these tough challenges.
The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family
Often the first book parents turn to when adopting a child from foster care or “from a hard place,” this classic parenting guide offers wisdom for all families. Dr. Karyn Purvis combines research-based strategies with warmth and compassion, focusing on connection before correction. She addresses the confusing and complex behaviors many foster and adopted children display while offering practical tools that bring hope. Parents will finish this book feeling encouraged, equipped, and ready to build stronger bonds with their children.
The Addicted Child: A Parent’s Guide to Adolescent Substance Abuse
This reassuring guide helps parents better understand and respond to the challenges of teen substance use. In clear, everyday language, it explains how to spot warning signs, what substances kids are most likely to encounter, and how struggles like self-harm or disordered eating can be connected. Parents will also find practical tips for seeking treatment and choosing a counselor who’s the right fit. Full of guidance and compassion, it’s a resource to help families face these tough issues with hope.
The Traumatized and At-Risk Youth Toolbox
The Traumatized and At-Risk Youth Toolbox offers practical, play-based ways to help children move through trauma with curiosity and creativity. Filled with activities drawn from play therapy, art, storytelling, and more, it’s designed with foster youth in mind but useful for any child struggling with anxiety, grief, anger, or depression. With strategies to support kids facing PTSD, ADHD, attachment challenges, and beyond, this guide helps parents and caregivers create safety, rebuild trust, and nurture healing step by step.
Present Moment Parenting
Winner of the 2017 Mom’s Choice Gold Award, Present Moment Parenting by parent coach Tina Feigal helps families find calm when raising an intense child. With new insights on trauma-informed parenting, Feigal explains how stress affects the brain and offers simple strategies to reduce intensity and bring more peace at home. Whether your child struggles with ADHD, autism, attachment issues, trauma, or simply being “hard to handle,” this guide equips parents with tools to connect, understand, and thrive together.
Parenting from the Inside Out
In Parenting from the Inside Out, Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., and Mary Hartzell, M.Ed., explore how your own childhood experiences shape the way you parent. By blending neuroscience with attachment research, they guide parents to reflect on their life stories and foster stronger, more secure connections with their children. Drawing on practical steps and insights from their parent workshops, this book helps families foster empathy, resilience, and deeper bonds, offering tools to create loving and lasting relationships at home.
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