Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families

Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families’s four parts take readers through the core issues of being family-challenged and making good decisions about resolving those losses.

Rating:  Votes: 354

Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control

This book covers in detail the effects of trauma on the body-mind and how trauma alters children’s behavioral responses. While scientifically based in research, it is written in an easy to understand and easy to grasp format.

Rating:  Votes: 120

Helping Children Cope With Separation And Loss

All adopted children have suffered a loss--the loss of their birthparents. Some have also been separated from foster parents. HELPING CHILDREN COPE WITH SEPARATION AND LOSS contains compassionate, step-by-step guidance for any concerned adult.

Rating:  Votes: 486

Labor of the Heart: A Parent's Guide to the Decisions and Emotions in Adoption

Utilizing extensive research and the author's own experience, Labor of the Heart does not gloss over the realties of the adoption process, but rather leads parents through the many stages and emotional impacts the process involves.

Rating:  Votes: 381

Nurturing Adoptions : Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma

With higher and higher percentages of children joining their families not as newborns, but from domestic or international foster care or from orphanages abroad, both parents and the professionals with whom they consult need new skills.

Rating:  Votes: 188

The English American

Springing from her hit one-woman show of the same name, "The English American" follows Pippa Dunn, who is adopted by British parents and doesn't meet her American birth parents until she is 28.

Rating:  Votes: 402

Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home

Already hailed as "brave, emotional, and gorgeously written" by Frances Mayes, this is a unique memoir about the search for identity through love, hunger, and food.

Rating:  Votes: 307

Welcome Home, Forever Child

This heartwarming picture book was written specifically for children who were adopted past infancy. The book offers a loving message of reassurance and permanence.

Rating:  Votes: 384