Caring for troubled adoptive/foster care children can be both harrowing and heroic. Many of today's foster and adopted children come from backgrounds where they experience not only the loss of previous caregivers, but have also suffered from abuse, sexual exploitation, or neglect. Individuals who invite these children into their homes often find themselves in a therapeutic role that can tax and exhaust. Troubled Transplants focuses on these children, their backgrounds, and their deleterious impact on the interaction and environment with the foster or adoptive family. The authors provide suggestions about behavioral roots and practical strategies to address and improve these issues.

Troubled Transplants: Unconventional Strategies for Helping Disturbed Foster & Adoptive Children

Parenting & Relationships

Delaney, Richard J., Ph.D.

Adoption

Richard J Delaney

The Long Journey Home tells the story of a young boy named Mayla. Separated from his mother by a raging flood, Mayla begins a perilous search to find her. This story is an adventure-with-a-message for any child who has suffered separation from loved ones. The Long Journey Home is all about love and loss, trauma and trust.

The Long Journey Home

Delaney, Richard J.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Wood N Barnes

Optimistic, yet realistic, guidelines for intervention with disturbed foster children. This book outlines a hopeful course of treatment for "Fostering Changes.

Fostering Changes: Treating Attachment-Disordered Foster Children

Recounts creative, sometimes off-the-wall, parenting approaches foster and adoptive parents have used to reach their troubled youngsters.

Small Feats: Unsung Accomplishments & Everyday Heroics of Foster & Adoptive Parents

"Fostering Changes outlines a way for helping professionals to consult with and teach foster and adoptive parents to better understand and help their children."--Fostering Changes Foster, kinship, and adopted children often experience neglect, abuse, malnutrition, or other trauma before being placed in foster/adoptive care. Consequential emotional disruptions often present problematic acting out behavior that can cause caregivers to question if and how the children receive optimal treatment in their homes. Drawing on attachment theory and research, Fostering Changes addresses these concerns through focus on understanding children from troubled environments and helping them feel secure and valuable so they accept parents as partners and caregivers. The author also addresses the diagnosis or misdiagnosis of Reactive Attachment Disorder, a condition linked to early maltreatment, abandonment, and sexual exploitation. Fostering Changes aids caregivers and treatment providers in understanding and reducing problem behavior by promoting the expression of needs and emotions to enhance the child's well being and encourage positive interaction with parents.

Fostering Changes: Myth, Meaning And Magic Bullets in Attachment Theory

Mental Health