Brooke Randolph, MA, NCC, LMHC

The title of this book can be both inflammatory and comforting; different people need to read it different ways.

The reality is that the desire for information has nothing to do with parenting or personality, but an innate desire.

It's Not About You is an adoptee-focused anthology project intended to comfort those who fear the desire for information and connection is any kind of judgement on themselves. Our purpose is also to confront those who try to make it about themselves, missing the opportunity to support and connect with the adoptee who needs this information.

General Adoption, Growing Up Adopted, Openness in Adoption, Search and Reunion

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Joy Rees

Through words, pictures, photographs, certificates and other 'little treasures', a Life Story Book provides a detailed account of the child's early history and a chronology of their life.

Fully updated, this clear and concise book shows a unique family-friendly way to compile a Life Story Book which promotes a sense of permanency for the child, and encourages attachments within new families. Joy Rees' influential model works chronologically backwards rather than forwards, aiming to reinforce the child's sense of belonging and security before addressing the child's past and early trauma. The book contains simple explanations of complex concepts, practical examples, helpful suggestions and includes some simple checklists. This new edition has been expanded to include fostered children and those living in kinship care or with a special guardian.

Perfect for social workers, adoption agencies, adoptive parents, foster carers and kinship carers, Life Story Books for Adopted and Fostered Children is a refreshing, innovative and common-sense guide.

General Adoption, Domestic Adoption, Foster Care Adoption, Growing Up Adopted, International Adoption, Openness in Adoption, Professionals, Adoption Issues

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Ronald Rapee PhD, Ann Wignall D. Psych, Susan Spence PhD, Heidi Lyneham PhD, Vanessa Cobham PhD

Most children are afraid of the dark. Some fear monsters under the bed. But at least ten percent of children have excessive fears and worries—phobias, separation anxiety, panic attacks, social anxiety, or obsessive-compulsive disorder—that can hold them back and keep them from fully enjoying childhood. If your child suffers from any of these forms of anxiety, the program in this book offers practical, scientifically proven tools that can help.

Now in its second edition, Helping Your Anxious Child has been expanded and updated to include the latest research and techniques for managing child anxiety. The book offers proven effective skills based in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to aid you in helping your child overcome intense fears and worries. You'll also find out how to relieve your child's anxious feelings while parenting with compassion.

Inside, you will learn to:

Help your child practice “detective thinking” to recognize irrational worries
What to do when your child becomes frightened
How to gently and gradually expose your child to challenging situations
Help your child learn important social skills

This book has been awarded The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Self-Help Seal of Merit—an award bestowed on outstanding self-help books that are consistent with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) principles and that incorporate scientifically tested strategies for overcoming mental health difficulties. Used alone or in conjunction with therapy, our books offer powerful tools readers can use to jump-start changes in their lives.

Parenting, Grief & Loss, General Adoption, Domestic Adoption, Foster Care Adoption, Growing Up Adopted, Openness in Adoption, Children with Special Needs, Attachment, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Mental Health Diagnosis Illness, Physical/Medical Disabilities, Sexual Issues, Trauma & Brain Development

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Donna B. Pincus, PhD

When our children are born, we do everything we can to make sure they have love, food, clothing, and shelter. But despite all this, one in five children today suffers from a diagnosed anxiety disorder, and countless others suffer from anxiety that interferes with critical social, academic, and physical development. Dr. Donna Pincus, nationally recognized childhood anxiety expert, is here to help. In Growing Up Brave, Dr. Pincus helps parents identify and understand anxiety in their children, outlines effective and convenient parenting techniques for reducing anxiety, and shows parents how to promote bravery for long-term confidence. From trouble sleeping and separation anxiety to social anxiety or panic attacks, Growing Up Brave provides an essential toolkit for instilling happiness and confidence for childhood and beyond.

Parenting, Grief & Loss, General Adoption, Domestic Adoption, Foster Care Adoption, Growing Up Adopted, Openness in Adoption, Children with Special Needs, Attachment, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Mental Health Diagnosis Illness, Physical/Medical Disabilities, Sexual Issues, Trauma & Brain Development, Professionals, Effects of Trauma

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Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.

Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments—from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga—that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity. Based on Dr. van der Kolk’s own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score exposes the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal—and offers new hope for reclaiming lives.

Parenting, Grief & Loss, General Adoption, Foster Care Adoption, Openness in Adoption, Children with Special Needs, Trauma & Brain Development, Professionals, Adoption Issues, Effects of Trauma, Grief & Loss in the Triad

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Steve Humerickhouse

A guide for military families with emphasis on waiting children.

General Adoption, Domestic Adoption, Foster Care Adoption, Growing Up Adopted, International Adoption, Openness in Adoption, Relative Adoption, Search and Reunion, Transracial Adoption

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Susan M. Johnson

Since its original publication in 1996, this volume has been a helpful guide to therapists in the practice of emotionally focused therapy. This second edition addresses the many changes in the field of couples therapy, including updated research results linked to clinical intervention and new information on using EFT to address depression and PTSD. A new section covers the growth of couples therapy as a field and its overall relevance to the mental health field, accompanied by coverage of how recent research into the nature of marital distress is consonant with EFT. Other new features are a section on EFT and feminism, as well as a section on cultural competence for the EFT therapist.

Written by a leading authority on emotionally focused couples and marital therapy, this second edition is an up-to-date reference on all aspects of EFT and its uses for mental health professionals.

Parenting, Grief & Loss, General Adoption, Domestic Adoption, Foster Care Adoption, Growing Up Adopted, Openness in Adoption, Relative Adoption, Professionals, Adoption Issues, Grief & Loss in the Triad, Need for Connections

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Dr. Sue Johnson

Heralded by the New York Times and Time magazine as the couple therapy with the highest rate of success, Emotionally Focused Therapy works because it views the love relationship as an attachment bond. This idea, once controversial, is now supported by science, and has become widely popular among therapists around the world.

In Hold me Tight, Dr. Sue Johnson presents Emotionally Focused Therapy to the general public for the first time. Johnson teaches that the way to save and enrich a relationship is to reestablish safe emotional connection and preserve the attachment bond. With this in mind, she focuses on key moments in a relationship-from Recognizing the Demon Dialogue to Revisiting a Rocky Moment-and uses them as touchpoints for seven healing conversations. Through case studies from her practice, illuminating advice, and practical exercises, couples will learn how to nurture their relationships and ensure a lifetime of love.

Parenting, Grief & Loss, General Adoption, Foster Care Adoption, Openness in Adoption, Relative Adoption, Search and Reunion, Professionals, Adoption Issues, Need for Connections, Transitions Considerations, LGBTQ

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Ken Blanchard

Ken Blanchard is one of America's best-known leadership and business experts. And now he helps you understand and experience the art of influence by revealing the greatest life and leadership lessons he's learned in his rich career as an educator and business leader.

The Heart of a Leader offers Blanchard's insight and wisdom on:

Choosing values
Aiming for excellence
Maintaining integrity
Finding the courage to change
Helping others reach their potential
And much more

Arranged with your busy schedule in mind, this book offers you Blanchard's most important concepts in an accessible format. You can reach for instant motivation and insight on a daily basis or soak it up in one reading.

Powerfully challenging and deeply inspiring, The Heart of a Leader will enable you to develop the courageous heart of a true leader. master key attitudes and actions to impact lives around you. and enjoy the profound wisdom that only Ken Blanchard can deliver.

Parenting, Discipline, Parenting Teens, School Challenges, General Adoption, Growing Up Adopted, Openness in Adoption

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Eileen Fursland

Facing up to Facebook examines the challenges faced by all parties involved in contact after adoption and looks at how adoptive parents can help children satisfy their need to know about their birth families whilst minimising potential risks to their security and stability. Fully revised and updated to reflect advances in technology and changes to applications and privacy settings, it looks at the pressing questions facing adoptive parents and practitioners, provides a wealth of information and offers valuable advice.

Case studies enable readers to share others’ experiences and reveal the potential and significant risks that some people have experienced and how they have managed these. Facing up to Facebook is essential reading for all those affected by the new reality of adoption in the age of social networking.

Parenting, Discipline, Parenting Teens, General Adoption, Domestic Adoption, Foster Care Adoption, Growing Up Adopted, International Adoption, Openness in Adoption, Relative Adoption, Search and Reunion

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