Over 200,000 children live in foster homes in America today. 40-60% of these children have been severely and permanently damaged by their pasts, resulting in behavioral, psychiatric, emotional and neurological disorders. Large numbers of previously adopted children (both domestic and international) suffer from similar problems. In the past, these children would have been cared for in specialized facilities staffed 24 hours a day by professionals. Today they are placed in inadequately prepared adoptive or foster homes where they often become uncontrollable, and forcefully reject those who want only to love and help them. Yet, in the past when families sought understanding and help, they found that there was little or none available. Now there is.
Can This Child Be Saved? Solutions for Adoptive and Foster Families... Offers parents help and hope, encouragement and support. It examines what causes children to act and react the way they do, and why conventional strategies and approaches often fail to reach them. It explores and validates parents feelings and offers struggling families clearly detailed and easy to understand parenting techniques and therapeutic approaches that DO succeed with disturbed children.
Foster W. Cline, M.D. - Dr. Cline is an internationally renowned adult and child psychiatrist, lecturer, and author of eight books on parenting and working with difficult children. His best selling Love and Logic parenting series, co-authored with Jim Fay, has been translated into several foreign languages. Hope for High Risk and Rage Filled Children has become the classic reference on understanding and treating Reactive Attachment Disorder in children. Dr. Cline is the cofounder of two clinics that specialize in the treatment of severely disturbed children. He is a popular speaker at workshops and seminars throughout the United States and has spoken in eleven foreign countries. Dr. Cline and his wife Hermie have three children by birth, one by adoption and several foster children. They live in the mountains of northern Idaho.
Cathy Helding - Cathy is a nationally known consultant, writer, and speaker in the field of special needs adoption and parenting of special needs children. Cathy comes from a background in special education and taught cognitively disabled middle school students in the 1970s. She is a former America Online Community Leader and newsletter editor for the Adoption Forum. She is a sought-after speaker for parent groups, agency trainings, and teacher in- service programs. In 1998 she testified before a State Senate committee on fetal alcohol syndrome and was instrumental in the passage of legislation that recognizes the rights of unborn children of drug- and alcohol-addicted mothers. Cathy and her husband John have four children, three of whom were adopted as a sibling group with special needs. They live in a replica turn-of-the-century farmhouse on eight acres of restored native prairie in southeastern Wisconsin.
