Adoption category: 683 books
Living Alongside a Child’s Recovery
Therapeutic Parenting with Traumatized Children
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Conventional parenting is not adequate to address the needs of children whose emotional development has been frozen, distorted or interrupted as a result of trauma. Therapeutic parenting is a psychodynamic model of parenting tailored for traumatized children, providing a safe, secure environment in...
Written in the Flesh
A History of Desire
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Written in the Flesh is a history of sexual desire – a startling and provocative history of what people yearn to do sexually. It is the story of the whole body's need for sexual attention rather than simply the genitalia and their procreational function.
The desire for sexual pleasure and...
Life of a Bastard
Vol.1
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
A real account of Javier Soto’s journey of life in foster care. Javier was born in Spanish Harlem (1972) to a 16-year-old Puerto Rican mother and 24-year-old Black father during a period in America when this was considered taboo. Removed from his mother ‘s home along with his sisters due to a...
Insane Roots
The Adventures of a Con-Artist and Her Daughter: A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Growing up, Tiffany Rochelle had no reason to believe her mother was not who she claimed to be, but that all changed when she was nine. She learned her mother had been living under a false identity since before she was born, and that the name her mother had used on her birth certificate wasn’t real....
A Liverpool Secret
The new gripping family saga, perfect for fans of Anna Jacobs and Nadine Dorries
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Liverpool, 1925: Can a chance meeting lead to a fresh start?
Lillian Taylor dreams of a world beyond the locked gates of the convent orphanage. For ten years she has survived the hard faith of the Mother Superior, but the arrival of a glamorous visitor changes everything.
Claiming to...
Real Life Heroes
Toolkit for Treating Traumatic Stress in Children and Families, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Real Life Heroes: Toolkit for Treating Traumatic Stress in Children and Families, Second Edition is an organized and easy-to-use reference for practitioners providing therapy to children and caregivers with traumatic stress. This step-by-step guide is an accompanying text to the workbook Real Life...
by Sue Cornbluth
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Just because children have been fostered or adopted, it doesn't mean they can't grow up to be happy, healthy and successful.
In Building Self-Esteem in Children Who Are Adopted or Fostered, Dr. Sue offers simple and practical advice to those supporting children aged 7+ to help them move beyond...
by Gordon Hill
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
This is the griping tale of a beautiful Shetland Sheepdog who only wanted to be a puppy for his entire life. He lived in Canada, and holidayed in Florida for four months each year. He was born to be a herder, but loved to chase birds, squirrels, airplanes, cars, and even skunks. He loved his two daily...
Ma io una famiglia ce l'avevo!
Viaggio nella mente dei bambini adottati
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Lasciandosi guidare dai racconti di bambini adottati, l’autrice prova ad accostarsi a ciò che si muove nella loro mente, ai sentimenti e ricordi del passato e alla costante ricerca delle origini che li anima. Un libro per avvicinarsi il più possibile alla comprensione del mondo interiore dei bambini...
by Suzy Mitchell Collin
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
THE COVER UP IS OVER!
A married gay couple adopted nine special needs children. In spite of the challenging behaviors and diagnoses of the children, they were flourishing at home and in school. After a decade, baseless sexual allegations against the fathers were lodged and the once thriving...
by David Learmont
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
The Foster Factory deals with the experiences of David Learmont and his wife Marsha once they retired and started working again as Foster Carers. David claims that if he had written this book as a novel, the characters in it would have been considered 'too outlandish to be credible.' How the elderly...
Therapy with Single Parents
A Social Constructionist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Provide effective counseling to members of single-parent families
With more than half of all first marriages ending in divorce, it’s time to re-think the notion that divorce means failure. Therapy with Single Parents focuses on the strengths of the single-parent family rather than...
The Boy from Baby House 10
From the Nightmare of a Russian Orphanage to a New Life in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
In 1990, a young boy afflicted with cerebral palsy was born, prematurely, in Russia. His name was Vanya. His mother abandoned him to the state childcare system and he was sent to a bleak orphanage called Baby House 10. Once there, he entered a nightmare world he was not to leave for more than eight...
by Rio Hogarty
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Rio Hogarty's story of her life in fostering, A Heart So Big, combines the heart-warming nostalgia of Mollie Moran's Aprons and Silver Spoons with heart-breaking stories of children whose lives were blighted by being unloved and uncared for in the style of Cathy Glass.
Nearly seventy years...