Attaching in Adoption is a comprehensive guide for prospective and actual adoptive parents on how to understand and care for their adopted child and promote healthy attachment. This classic text provides practical parenting strategies designed to enhance children's happiness and emotional health. It explains what attachment is, how grief and trauma can affect children's emotional development, and how to improve attachment, respect, cooperation and trust. Parenting techniques are matched to...

Packed full of great ideas for fun games and activities, this book encourages positive attachments between a parent or carer and their child.When it comes to choosing the best games to play with children who have difficulties attaching, it is often hard to know how to play with a purpose. This book contains fun, age-appropriate games along with an explanation of why they matter. All the games included are designed for specific age ranges, from infants to older children, and help to...

Day-to-day clinical guidance on what to do with all the attachment theory you’ve learned.Attachment theory is very popular in therapy these days. But what do you as a therapist do with all that theory? How can you use it to make the lives of your clients better?This book is a hands-on, practical guide to successful attachment-oriented interventions with parents and children who present with a variety of issues, from trauma to depression to anger.It ...

Adopted children who have suffered trauma and neglect have structural brain change, as well as specific developmental and emotional needs. They need particular care to build attachment and overcome trauma.This book provides professionals with the knowledge and advice they need to help adoptive families build positive relationships and help children heal. It explains how neglect, trauma and prenatal exposure to drugs or alcohol affect brain and emotional development, and explains ho...

Capturing the warmth and fun of forming close relationships with children, this book offers simple advice to parents of children who find it difficult to attach and bond - whether following adoption, divorce or other difficult experiences.Attachment therapist Deborah D. Gray describes how to use the latest thinking on attachment in your daily parenting. She reveals sensory techniques which have proven to help children bond - straightforward activities like keeping close eye contact...

Life story work is an approach designed to enable traumatized children to explore, question and understand the past events of their lives. It aims to secure their future by strengthening attachment with their carers and providing the opportunity to develop a healthy sense of self and a feeling of wellbeing.This new edited volume documents innovative ways in which life story work has been developed. It draws on the work of nine life story centres based around the world and provides ...

Two criminal dynasties of New York-One forbidden obsession. Inside a high stakes war between two crime families, arises a steamier battle of the sexes.He's the hot Bratva playboy prince - she's the enemy. She's also the sexy, brilliant daughter of the Italian Mafia Boss when their two worlds collide.Falling for your kidnapper is not meant to end in desire.He's everything she was raised to despise — a ruthless enemy, violent, untouchable - yet she's the one woman he ...

"Delightfully wicked. . . . a plethora of spells to exact revenge . . . guaranteed to make you laugh with glee at the very thought of casting them!" —Dorothy Morrison, author of Utterly WickedCoauthor of the bestselling How to Turn Your Ex-Boyfriend into a Toad, Deborah Gray shares an array of hexes, spells, and incantations for revenge, power, and protection.Life is beautiful but crossing paths with awful people can make your life a misery....

Voted number 6 out of 18 Best Short Memoir Books by BookAuthority.org. Deborah Gray writes about growing up at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in Southeastern Kentucky in the early sixties under the living guidance of her maternal grandmother. This memoir is a love story dedicated to the memories of a six-year-old child and the years that follow. There is laughter, joy, sadness, and sometimes inner contemplation, but never a dull moment. Deborah's Maw, Rose Wilson, will give you...

For seventeen-year-old Nell, life is about to take a chilling turn.Raised by a workaholic uncle and used to being overlooked in a crowd, Nell has found life to be rather dull and uneventful…Until the day of a school field trip out to White Shell Lagoon. Going against her nature, Nell bends a rule – and makes a shocking discovery.Now she has a secret that no one will believe, one that whispers danger even as it seems to call to her very soul. What really lurks beneath the gla...

"One of those rare books that quickly became the standard work in its field." —Anne Firor Scott, Duke UniversityLiving with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society.This revised edition of Ar'n't I a Woman? reviews and updates the scholarship on slave women and the slave family, explori...

"One of those rare books that quickly became the standard work in its field." ―Anne Firor Scott, Duke UniversityLiving with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society.This revised edition of Ar'n't I a Woman? reviews and updates the scholarship on slave women and the slave family, explori...