Attachment
Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families With Special-Needs Kids
Adopting the Hurt Child tackles the harsh realities of abuse and neglect while offering real hope for healing. Written for adoptive and foster parents, social workers, and caregivers, it provides clear insight into understanding wounded children and practical strategies for supporting them. Its companion volume, Parenting the Hurt Child: Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow, is equally essential. Together, these books are invaluable resources for anyone committed to helping children overcome trauma and thrive in safe, loving homes.
Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control: A Love-Based Approach to Helping Attachment-Challenged Children With Severe Behaviors
This insightful book goes beyond theory to offer both science and hope for parenting children with attachment challenges. The first chapters explain the neurological research behind “The Stress Model,” while the following sections focus on seven common behaviors—such as lying, stealing, hoarding, aggression, gorging, defiance, and lack of eye contact. With clarity and compassion, it provides parents with understanding and practical strategies for building trust and connection with struggling children.
Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today’s Parents
A classic in adoption literature, Attaching in Adoption is a comprehensive guide for prospective and current adoptive parents on fostering healthy attachment. Deborah Gray explains what attachment is, how grief and trauma impact development, and offers practical strategies to build trust, cooperation, and emotional well-being. Simply the best resource for parents, it remains an essential read. Gray also wrote a companion volume, Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience After Neglect and Trauma, for professionals.
Toddler Adoption: The Weaver’s Craft
Toddler Adoption explores the distinct joys and challenges of adopting children between 12 and 36 months old—a stage marked by emotional and cognitive transitions. Drawing from both professional expertise and personal experience as an adoptive parent, the author offers compassionate guidance and practical strategies to help families navigate attachment, behavior, and developmental needs. This revised and updated edition equips caregivers and professionals alike with tools to support a toddler’s adjustment and foster strong, healthy family bonds.
The Attachment Parenting Book: A Commonsense Guide to Understanding and Nurturing Your Baby
In The Attachment Parenting Book, Dr. Bill and Martha Sears—the husband-and-wife team who coined the term—introduce parents to the six “Baby B’s”: bonding, breastfeeding, babywearing, bedding close, belief in the value of baby’s cry, and beware of baby trainers. While focused on infancy and less applicable to foster care or international adoption, it remains a practical, inspiring introduction to attachment parenting and a helpful resource for building strong early connections.
Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive
This empowering book helps parents recognize the gifts and baggage they bring to parenting and shows how awareness can transform family life. With a balance of spirit and practicality, it offers hands-on exercises at the end of each chapter, plus research summaries for those who love the science behind the strategies. Both encouraging and deeply useful, it’s a resource we can’t recommend highly enough.
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