Attaching in Adoption
Practical Tools for Today's Parents
Deborah D. Gray
Paperback: £16.99 / $24.95
2012, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 400pp
ISBN: 978-1-84905-890-2, BIC 2: JMC
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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.
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Top Ten Tips for the First Year of Placement
26 June 2012
By Deborah Gray, MSW, MPA, clinical social worker specializing in attachment, grief and trauma, and author of Attaching in Adoption and Nurturing Adoptions. Parents passionately want to succeed in raising emotionally healthy children. They also want to enjoy their little ones. When their children arrive later in infancy or childhood, most parents are well-aware that...
Holiday Help for Your Anxious Child – by Deborah Gray
3 April 2012
Here are some helpful tips for adoptive parents and foster carers to ensure that holidays are fun for everyone—especially for the anxious child. By Deborah Gray, MSW, MPA, clinical social worker specialising in attachment, grief and trauma, and author of Attaching in Adoption and Nurturing Adoptions. Anxious children like to know what their part is in any new event....
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- counselling,
- educational psychology,
- emotions,
- families,
- fostering,
- grief,
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- mental health,
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- social care,
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- trauma
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