For Adults/Parents/Guardians

• Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self ; Brodzinsky, David; Random House; 1992
• Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child: From Your First Hours Together Through the Teen Years; Cogen, Patty; Harvard Common Press; 2008
• Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control. A Love-Based Approach to Helping Attachment Challenged Children with Severe Behaviors; Forbes, H. & Post, B.; 2006
• Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today’s Parents; Gray, Deborah; Perspectives Press; 2002
• Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma; Gray, Deborah; Perspectives Press; 2007
• Facilitating Developmental Attachment; Hughes, Daniel; 1997
• Adoption: Sound Choices, Strong Families; Johnston, Patricia Irwin
• The Family of Adoption; Pavao, Joyce Maguire; 1998
• The Boy Who was Raised as a Dog; Perry, Bruce; Perseus Books Group
• From Fear to Love: Parenting Difficult Adopted Children; Post, Bryan; Post Institute and Assoc. LLC; 2010
• The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to your Adoptive Family; Purvis, Karyn, Cross, D., Sunshine, W.; McGraw-Hill; 2007
• Parenting from the Inside Out; Siegel, Daniel & Hartzell, M.; Tarcher; 2004
• Inside Transracial Adoption; Steinberg, Gail and Hall, Beth; Perspective Press; 2000
• The Connected Parent: Real Life Strategies for Building Trust and Attachment; Purvis, Karyn and Qualls, Lisa; Harvest House Publishers; 2020
• The Connected Therapist: Relating Through the Sense; Smith, Marti; 2021
• What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing; Perry, Bruce and Winfrey, Oprah; Flatiron Books; 2021

Websites

• Circle of Security
• Theraplay

For Children and Youth

• Pact- An Adoption Alliance (see for additional resources)
• The Family Book; Todd Parr; Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; 2010