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
Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Equipping Parents of Children at Risk for Attachment Problems; Chapter 1: What Is Attachment and Why Is It Important?; Chapter 2: Challenges for Children and Parents; Chapter 3: What Children Have Already Learned about Attachment; Chapter 4: Grief and Its Effects; Chapter 5: Trauma and Traumatic Loss; Chapter 6: The Impact of Cultural Change; Chapter 7: Other Complications for Attaching; Chapter 8: Emotional Development: Promoting Attachment at Every Phase; Chapter 9: The Shape of Progress.
Chapter 10: Relaxing the Grip of Anxiety and ControlChapter 11: The Fairness Factor; Chapter 12: Building Emotional Intelligence; Chapter 13: Forming a Team of Support; Chapter 14: Getting Professional Help; Epilogue; Appendix; Resources; Index; About the Publisher; About the Author.
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