Nurturing Adoptions

Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma

Deborah D. Gray

Paperback: £15.99 / $24.95

2012, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 512pp
ISBN: 978-1-84905-891-9, BIC 2: JMC JKSF JKSN

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Introduction. Part 1. The Issues of Neglect and Trauma in Today's Adoption. 1. The Changing Nature of Adoption. 2. Trauma, Stress, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder – Interrelationships. 3. Neglect. 4. Traumatic Stress – The Symptom Clusters. 5. Early Relational Trauma, Traumatic Loss, and Effects on Development. 6. Trauma and Neglect – Double Insults. 7. Attachment and Trauma/Neglect. Part 2. Putting the Pieces Together – Restoration after Traumatic Stress and Neglect. 8. Common Ground: What Parents, Caseworkers, Teachers, and Therapists Can Do to Help. 9. The Role of the Child Welfare/Social Worker. 10. The Role of the Mental Health Worker. 11. Structuring Careers and Practices. 12. Creating Resilience in Children and Their Families. Appendices. Glossary. Useful Tools and Exercises. References. Resources and Recommended Reading. Index.

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Author information

• Deborah D. Gray

Subject areas

• Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
• Parenting
• Health, Social Work and Social Care
• Psychiatry and Psychology

Keywords

• adoption,
• attachment,
• child development,
• child psychiatry,
• child psychology,
• counselling,
• educational psychology,
• grief,
• looked after children,
• mental health,
• parenting,
• psychotherapy,
• resilience,
• social work,
• trauma

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