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Rebuilding Attachments with Traumatized Children: Healing from Losses, Violence, Abuse and Neglect

By Richard Kagan, PhD

Traumatic experiences often haunt their victims. Dr, Kagan, presents critical information on how to understand, and move beyond the impact of loss, neglect, separation, and violence on children’s development, how to discover and foster strengths in children and their families, and how to rebuild enduring connections and hope with children who are at risk of harm to themselves and others. This book is designed to be used in conjunction with Real Life Heroes: A Life Storybook for Children.

Real Life Heroes: A Life Storybook for Children

By Richard Kagan, PhD

This workbook can help children move from painful or fractured memories to a more positive perspective by drawing strength from the supportive people in their lives to safely face and overcome hardships. Children work with caring adults to develop their autobiography through the use a wide range of activities, such as: drawings, music, movies and narrative.

Children Trauma Handbook: A Guide for Helping Trauma-Exposed Chidlren and Adolescents

By Ricky Greenwald PsyD

Children and adolescents facing loss-related issues or who have lived through other traumatic experiences often model behaviors that are hard to understand. This handbook guides caregivers and professional helpers through the treatment process using plain language and a step-by-step process.

An Unlit Path:  One Family’s Journey Toward The Light of Truth

by Deborah L. Hannah

This is the true story of one family’s journey through the world of foster care and adoption within the US.  It is a personal account, encompassing both heartbreak and joy, while realistically embracing the intrinsic challenges of parenting the “hard to place” child.  The long-term effects of neglect and abandonment, along with the issues of Reactive Attachment Disorder, sexual abuse, mental illness, and false allegations are discussed in the context of the family’s four biological, five adopted and nine foster children.  This book dispels unrealistic and idealized expectations, while offering spiritual insight into understanding, acceptance and finally, forgiveness.

The Other Parent:  The Inside Story of the Media’s Effect on Our Children

by James P. Steyer

Every day our children are bombarded by images of sex, commercialism, and violence – right in your own home.  Kids spend more time each week with media than they do with their parents or teachers, and they learn about the adult world – through the influence of TV, movies, music, computer games, and the internet – LONG BEFORE THEY ARE READY.  This book offers critical guidance for processing the media that deluges our kids.  Learn how to:  Talk to your kids about the messages they encounter; Put your family on a healthy media diet; and initiate activities besides television watching and Web surfing.

Orphans of the Living:  Stories of America’s Children in Foster Care

by Jennifer Toth

This book describes the true stories of five children caught in a system of crisis.  The author chronicles the complexities of a culture that both liberates and hobbles its dependents.  The pressing political issue of how are nation’s children are being cared for is told in a poignant and humanizing way.