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ITAO Book Club
We’ve assembled a list of some of the best books ever written about parenting, foster care and adoption and given you an easy way to read about them and purchase them online by clicking through from this website. When you do, ITAL receives a portion of the proceeds from that sale and from everything else you purchase on Amazon in that session! It’s a great way to support our work with foster and adoptive families.
A Child’s Journey Through Placement
This book provides the foundation, resources, and tools to help professionals, parents, and other to support children for whom the journey through placement is part of their road to adulthood. Chapter titles include: 1) Attachment and Separation, 2) Child Development, 3) Separation and Loss, 4) Minimizing the Trauma of Moves, 5) Case Planning, and 6) Behavior Problems.
Achieving Permanency for Adolescents in Foster Care: A Guide for Legal Professionals
Achieving Permanency addresses the legal, medical, psychological, economic and social issues that often pose challenges to teens seeking permanent families. This book offers guidelines that describe different case types and propose specific solutions and approaches, including step-by-step legal and casework strategies.
Adoption Wisdom: A Guide to the Issues and Feelings of Adoption
Insight and understanding of adoptees, birth parents and adoptive parents. A book for anyone who wants to know more about the realities of adoption. Marlou Russell, Ph.D. speaks and writes on issues of adoption while maintaining a private practice in Santa Monica, California. She is an adoptee in reunion with many relatives from both sides of her birth family.
Attaching in Adoption
This book covers many issues, including cross-cultural and interracial adoption, religious concerns and other complications for attaching, such as ADHD and learning disabilities.
Beyond the Foster Care System – the Future for Teens
This book is a powerful tool to help youths in foster care move to fully engaged lives in our society. Through the stories of wonderful young people we learn how to build on their strengths, abilities, and ambition to help them succeed.
Born for Love
In this unforgettable book, award-winning science journalist Maia Szalavitz and renowned child-psychiatrist Bruce D. Perry explain how empathy develops, why it is essential both to human happiness and for a functional society, and how it is threatened in the modern world.
Dr. Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D., is an internationally recognized authority on brain development and children in crisis. Dr. Perry leads the ChildTrauma Academy, a pioneering center providing service, research and training in the area of child maltreatment.
Braided Cord: Tough Times In and Out
See larger image Braided Cord: Tough Times In and Out (Paperback) By (author) Liz Kulp, Jodee Kulp, Karl Kulp List Price: $24.95 USD New From: $20.41 In Stock Used from: $19.20 In Stock Liz Kulp was diagnosed with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) as a young teen. Knowing her challenges and understanding her strengths helped [...]
Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children
Building the Bonds offers clinicians a strudy framework and practical strategy for facing these overwhelming cases. Perhpas even more importantly, it wil enlighten, affirm, and buoy the adoptive parents, foster parents, caseworkers, and teachers who accompany the children on their courageous and daunting journey toward attachment.
Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence
Cutting to the heart of the alarming trend of violence committed by children, Ghosts from the Nursery gives startling new evidence that violent behavior is fundamentally linked to abuse and neglect in the first two years of life.
