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Adoption Research & Adoption Articles

Orphanage Experience Alters Brain Development by Seth Pollack, psychologist

Adopting an Institutionalized Child, by Dana Johnson, MD

Association for Research in International Adoption

Lifelong Issues in Adoption by Deborah N. Silverstein and Sharon Kaplan

Navigating Uncharted Waters: School Psychologists Working with Internationally Adopted Post-Institutionalized Children, Boris Gindis, Ph.D

The Primal Wound

Project to trace the emotional toll of severe child neglect

Raising the Post-Institutional Child - Ronald Federici, Psy.D.

Attachment & Attachment Disorder

Articles

Attachment: Biology, Evolution and Environment

Attachment as a Context for Development: Challenges and Issues

Choosing to Use Confrontive Therapies With Attachment Disordered Children by Cathy Helding with Foster W. Cline, M.D.

Identifying Insecure Attachment and Dependency Bonding in Adopted Children by Cathy Helding

Inter-National Adoption Alliance

Older Child Adoption Online Magazine

What is Attachment? Kathleen Moss (ATTACh)

What You Should Know Before You Adopt a Child

Organizations and Treatment Centers

Adoption and Attachment Therapy at IELD - Lynne Lyon, MSW

Adoption Parenting - Doris Landry, MS

The Amen Clinic for Behavioral Medicine

ATTACh: Association for Treatment and Training in the Attachment of Children

Attachment and Bonding Center of Ohio - Gregory Keck, PhD & Regina Kupecky, LSW

Attachment and Bonding Center of PA

Attachment Center Northwest

Attachment Disorder Support Group

Cathy Helding

Center for Family Development - Dr. Arthur Becker-Weidman

The Explosive Child - Ross W. Green, PhD.

Family Attachment Center - Joanne May, PhD

Heal the Hearts Foundation

Hincks-Dellcrest Treatment Centre - Toronto, Canada

Kuddle Kids Korner

Martha G. Welch Center for Family Treatment

Nancy Thomas Parenting

Parent Network for the Post Institutionalized Child

Special Needs Network - UK

Theraplay

Walter Buenning, PhD - RAD Treatment: Healing with Love and Limits

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, etc.

American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry - PTSD page

Bruce Perry, M.D., Ph.D., Scholastic's expert-in-residence on brain  development and children in crisis - index to articles.

The ChildTrauma Academy

David Baldwin's Trauma Information Pages

Foundation for Human Enrichment - Trauma Healing with Somatic Experiencing® by Dr. Peter Levine

Hakomi Somatics Institute - Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies

National Center for PTSD

Ricky Greenwald's Child Trauma Home Page

The Trauma Center - Bessel van der Kolk

Traumatology

Northwest Adoption Exchange - Trauma and Attachment by Rebecca Perbix Mallos, MSW

Sensory Integration Dysfuncion

Essential Learning Institute - Sensory Integration Training

Kid Power - Sensory Integration Dysfunction

The Listening Program - Auditory Processing Therapy Program

Sensory Resources

S.I. Network - Sensory Integration Resource Center

Southpaw Enterprises - Sensory Integration & Developmental Products for the Therapeutic Professional

Books & Other Adoption/Attachment Resources

Alphabet Soup Books carries a large selection of children's books in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Tagalog, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Polish, Greek, Arabic and German. (Others are available by request); multicultural literature - myths, folktales and fables from around the world; "life issue" books, for both children and adults, which deal with such issues as adoption, special needs, disabilities, death, divorce, feelings, sexual abuse and sexuality. (609)771-3700.

Asia Threads

International Maps and Guides from Omni Resources you can order a map of your child's province in China or other country

Order books from Tapestry

Bonding Through Touch: Infant Massage for Adoptive Families
a video to help enhance bonding using Infant Massage. The children in the video were adopted from Guatemala, Russia, and from the US. One of the families adopted from China, and the issues which they encountered beginning in China and continuing at home are addressed in the video.

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