Deborah D. Gray

Nurturing Adoptions (eBook, ePUB)

Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Adopted children who have suffered trauma and neglect have structural brain change, as well as specific developmental and emotional needs. They need particular care to build attachment and overcome trauma.

This book provides professionals with the knowledge and advice they need to help adoptive families build positive relationships and help children heal. It explains how neglect, trauma and prenatal exposure to drugs or alcohol affect brain and emotional development, and explains how to recognise these effects and attachment issues in children. It also provides ways to help children settle into new families and home and school approaches that encourage children to flourish. The book also includes practical resources such as checklists, questionnaires, assessments and tools for professionals including social workers, child welfare workers and mental health workers.

This book will be an invaluable resource for professionals working with adoptive families and will support them in nurturing positive family relationships and resilient, happy children. It is ideal as a child welfare text or reference book and will also be of interest to parents.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857006073
• Artikelnr.: 38233101

Autorenporträt

Deborah D. Gray is the author of the bestselling book for parents, Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents and an award-winning book for professionals, Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma. Deborah has been described as "attachment guru" by Adoptive Families magazine, and specializes in the attachment, grief, and trauma issues of children in her private practice, Nurturing Attachments, which is based in Kirkland, Washington, USA. Her passion is to help families develop close, satisfying relationships. A clinical social worker, she has worked over 25 years in foster and adopted children's therapies and placement. She has also been a therapeutic foster parent. Deborah is core faculty for the award-winning Post-Graduate Certificate program in Foster and Adoption Therapy at Portland State University. She is main faculty in the ATTACh-recognized Post-Graduate Attachment Therapy Certificate Program through Cascadia Training. She has taught in the Trauma Certificate Program at the University of WA and was the 2008 Henry W. Maier Practitioner in Residence at the School of Social Work at the University of WA. Deborah is a popular presenter due to her practical and positive approaches. She has keynoted conferences ranging from the Joint Council of International Children's Services to Orphan Conferences. She continues to work in a clinical practice with parents and children, who help to teach her new approaches and techniques every day. Visit her website at www.deborahdgray.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part 1. The Issues of Neglect and Trauma in Today's Adoption.
1. The Changing Nature of Adoption. 2. Trauma, Stress, and Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder - Interrelationships. 3. Neglect. 4. Traumatic Stress - The
Symptom Clusters. 5. Early Relational Trauma, Traumatic Loss, and Effects
on Development. 6. Trauma and Neglect - Double Insults. 7. Attachment and
Trauma/Neglect. Part 2. Putting the Pieces Together - Restoration after
Traumatic Stress and Neglect. 8. Common Ground: What Parents, Caseworkers,
Teachers, and Therapists Can Do to Help. 9. The Role of the Child
Welfare/Social Worker. 10. The Role of the Mental Health Worker. 11.
Structuring Careers and Practices. 12. Creating Resilience in Children and
Their Families. Appendices. Glossary. Useful Tools and Exercises.
References. Resources and Recommended Reading. Index.