Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience After Neglect and Trauma - Hardcover

Deborah D. Gray

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0944934331 ISBN 13: 9780944934333

Publisher: Perspectives Press (IN), 2007

Synopsis

Adoption has changed dramatically in less than a decade. 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.

From the author of Attaching in Adoption (already a must-have book for both adoptive parents and placement professionals) comes this new tool designed to help placement professionals and therapists whose practices are not focused specifically on adoption and attachment understand how new research on the impact of neglect, abuse, early trauma, and institutionalization on the developing brains of children can guide their practices in new directions. Nurturing Adoption s goal is to help professionals to assist parents in healing their children s and guiding them into strong and healthy relationships and productive adulthood.

The hardcover was a 2008 silver medalist in the Benjamin Franklin Awards!

About this title

About the Author

Deborah Gray is the founder of Nurturing Attachments. She is a clinical social worker specializing in the areas of attachment, grief, and trauma. She has spent over 15,000 hours in the last 15 years counseling children who were adopted. Her private practice philosophy is one of empowering parents with information and techniques so that their skills and styles are used in meeting the needs of their children. Her passion is to help children and their families to develop close, satisfying relationships.

Deborah is a popular presenter due to her practical approaches of promoting attachment, shaping behavior, and working through trauma. She teaches in the Cascadia Resources/Northwest Adoption Resource and Portland State Post-Graduate Programs in Adoption Counseling and the University of Washington's Post-Graduate Trauma Certificate program.

In her personal life, Deborah Gray feels linked to adoption through the family in which she grew up. She has also been a therapeutic foster parent. She received her graduate degrees from Syracuse University in 1981. She is a licensed social worker in the State of Washington.

Deborah Gray is the author of numerous articles and the book Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents, published by Perspectives Press, Inc. in 2002.

From the Inside Flap

Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma by Deborah D. Gray

Like so many things, adoption has been affected by the rapidly changing world. In fact, adoption has a completely different face than it did just 10 years ago. Because of dramatic changes in where the majority of children come from, at what ages, and after what experiences, social work and child therapy professionals must adjust their tools and skills just as dramatically.

Adoptions, both domestic and international, create families with children at all different levels of development and needs. Just because the child is two years old doesn't mean he is at a two-year-old's expected level of development. Factors such as attachment issues, grief, trauma and prenatal exposure to harmful substances, all play important roles.

This book provides best practices for professionals working with families adopting in a 21st-century world. Hear the success stories of breakthroughs and secure families through the voices of children and their families who have overcome the challenges today's adoptive families face.

Find practical, yet flexible ways to move children--from infants to early teens--into their new families. Learn the effects of neglect and trauma on brain and emotional development, and more importantly, how to recognize them. Discover home and school approaches that encourage children to flourish, even after trauma and neglect.

More than ever, adoptive families need professionals who will thoroughly prepare and support them--not just through the adoption process but as the family grows. This book by the author of the acclaimed Attaching in Adoption gives support to placement and therapy professionals in helping to create successful families.

Edition details

• Publisher: Perspectives Press (IN)
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0944934331
• ISBN 13: 9780944934333
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 510