Reading List

Attach-China Must Reads:

  1. Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families with Special-Needs Kids by Gregory C. Keck, PhD and Regina M. Kupecky, LSW
  2. Holding Time by Martha G. Welch, MD
  3. Building the Bonds of Attachment by Daniel A. Hughes
  4. Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents by Deborah D. Gray
  5. How to Talk so Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
  6. Raising a Happy, Unspoiled Child by Burton L. White
  7. The Out of Sync Child, Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Integration Dysfunction by Carol Stock Kranowitz, M.A.

Other Recommended Reading

  1. Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too -- by Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish;
  2. How to Talk So Kids Can Learn: At Home and in School by Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish
  3. Attachment, Trauma, and Healing by Terry M. Levy and Michael Orlans
  4. The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Self by Nancy Newton Verrier
  5. Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew by Sherrie Eldridge
  6. Paarenting the Hurt Child by Gregory C. Keck, PhD and Regina M. Kupecky, LSW
  7. Too Scared to Cry by Lenore M. Terr, MD (about PTSD)
  8. The Child with Special Needs: Encouraging Intellectual & Emotional Growth by Stanley Greenspan
  9. First Steps in Parenting the Child Who Hurts by Caroline Archer (ISBN I85302 801 0. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Rd, London N1 9JB. www.jkp.com)
  10. Secure Base by John Bowlby
  11. Becoming Attached by Robert Karen
  12. Attachment & Loss by John Bowlby
  13. A Child's Journey Through Placement by Vera Fahlberg
  14. Adopting the Older Child by Claudia Jewett
  15. Coping with Separation and Loss by Claudia Jewett
  16. Loving your Child is Not Enough: Positive Discipline that Works by Nancy Samalin
  17. Parenting with Love and Logic by Foster W. Cline
  18. Give Them Roots, Then Let Them Fly Foster W. Cline
  19. Don't Touch My Heart: Healing the Pain of an Unattached Child by Lynda Gianforte and Christopher H. Waldmann
  20. Vision & Separation by Kenneth Wright
  21. Parenting and Emotional Development: Tears & Tantrums by Aletha J. Solter
  22. The Aware Baby by Aletha J. Solter
  23. Playground Politics: Understanding the Emotional Development of Your School Age Child by Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D.
  24. Intimacy & Solitude - Stephanie Dowrick (Norton)
  25. Touching by Ashley Montegue
  26. In Defense of Mothering by Thelma Fraiberg
  27. Maternal Infant Bonding by Marshall H. Klaus 1976, out of print
  28. Nighttime Parenting by Sears (published by La Leche League)

 

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