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Adoption & childs trauma

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Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today’s Parents

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.

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Deborah D. Gray
2012
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Adoption-Related Trauma and Moral Injury

Even the most loving, caring adoption begins with separation and loss.

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Mirah Riben
2016
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Adoption Therapy: Perspectives from Clients and Clinicians on Processing and Healing Post-Adoption Issues

A much-needed anthology addressing a variety of potential psychological and physiological concerns, Adoption Therapy, Perspectives from Clients and Clinicians on Processing and Healing Post-Adoption Issues is a must-read for adoptees, adoptive parents, first families, and vitally, mental health...

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Laura Dennis (editor)
2014
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The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade

In this deeply moving and myth-shattering work, Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure in the decades before Roe v. Wade.

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Ann Fessler
2024
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Dancing with a Porcupine: Parenting Wounded Children without Losing Your Self

Parenting is hard. So what do you do when you’re parenting a child who has experienced trauma or has extra challenges? You often feel alone and inadequate. You want so much to help your child, but you are at the end of your own rope. You feel guilty that sometimes you want to just quit.

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Jennie Lynn Owens
2024
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My Adoptive Parents Hid My Racial Identity from Me for 19 Years

My parents successfully passed me off as a dark-skinned Italian for 19 years of my life.

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Melissa Guida-Richards
2021
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