Allison Davis Maxon

Allison Davis Maxon, M.S., LMFT is a nationally recognized expert in the fields of child welfare and children’s mental health specializing in Attachment, Developmental Trauma and Permanency/Adoption. She is the Executive Director of the National Center on Adoption and Permanency and was the foster care consultant for the Paramount Pictures movie Instant Family. Allison was honored in 2017 with the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute ‘Angels in Adoption’ award and is the co-author of Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency: A Guide to Promoting Understanding and Healing in Adoption, Foster Care, Kinship Families and Third Party Reproduction, Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2019.

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Allison is an author, educator, clinician and advocate who is passionate about helping children and families heal and thrive. She provides training, speaking and consultation services on a wide range of topics including strengthening Children’s Mental Health, Trauma-Informed Care, Adverse Childhood Experiences {ACE’s}, Childhood Trauma and Neglect, Attachment & Relational Trauma, Adoption Clinical Competence, Adoption & Permanency, Developmental Trauma, Family Attachment Therapy, Kinship Care, Transitional Age Youth and others. She has presented at national, state and local mental health and child welfare conferences including the Child Welfare League of America, the North American Council on Adoptable Children, the American Adoption Congress , ATTACh, the National Association of Counsel for Children, the National Foster Parent Association, San Diego County Children’s System of Care Training Academy and the prestigious Georgetown University National Symposium on Children’s Mental Health Systems of Care.

Just published in 2023, The Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency Workbook for Children and Teens: A Trauma-Informed Resource, Allison Davis Maxon, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2023.

Published in 2022, The Seven Core Issues Workbook for Parents of Traumatized Children and Teens: A Guide to Help You Explore Feelings and Overcome Emotional Challenges in Your Family, Allison Davis Maxon and Sharon Kaplan Roszia, Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2022. A trauma-informed resource for kinship, foster and adoptive parents to explore and understand their own attachment history and core issues with tools to strengthen the parent-child attachment relationship.

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