SUGGESTED BOOKS ON ADOPTION ISSUES

Arent, Ruth P.

Trust Building With Children Who Hurt

Caplan, L.

An Open Adoption

Delaney, R., Kunstal, F.R.

Troubled Transplants: Unconventional Strategies for Helping Disturbed Foster and Adoptive Children

Dorner, Patricia Martinez

Talking to Your Child About Adoption

Eldridge, Sherrie

Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew

Erichsen, Jean & Erichsen, Heino

How to Adopt Internationally: A Guide for Agency-Directed and Independent Adoption

Fahlberg, Vera

A Child’s Journey Through Placement

Gritter, J.L.

Adoption Without Fear: Seventeen Couples Tell Their Emotion-filled Experiences with Open Adoption

Gritter, J.L.

Life Givers: Framing the Birthparent Experience in Open Adoption

Gritter, J.L.

The Spirit of Open Adoption

Jewett-Jarratt, C.J.

Helping Children Cope With Separation and Loss

Jewett, C.L.

Adopting the Older Child

Keefer, B., Schooler, J.

Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child

Keck, G.C., Kupecky, K.M.

Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families with Special-Needs Kids

Koenig, M.A., Berg, N.

Sacred Connections: Stories of Adoption

Krementz, J.

How it Feels to be Adopted

Lee, Judith & Nisivoccia, Danielle

Walk A Mile in My Shoes:  A Book about Biological Parents for Foster Parents and Social Workers

Lifton, B.J.

Journey of the Adopted Self

Lifton, B.J.

Lost and Found: The Adoption Experience

Lincoln & Caplan

An Open Adoption

McCreight, Brenda

Parenting Your Older Adopted Child: How to Overcome the Unique Challenges & Raise a Happy, Healthy Child

Melina, L.R.

Making Sense of Adoption: A Parent’s Guide

Melina, L.R.

Raising Adopted Children: Practical, Reassuring Advice for Every Adoptive Parent

Moore, Kay

Gathering the Missing Pieces in An Adopted Life

O’Hanlon, T.

Adoption Subsidy: A Guide for Adoptive Parents (Revised January 2002)

Pavao, Joyce M.

The Family of Adoption

Pertman, Adam

Adoption Nation

Pohl, C., Harris, K.

Transracial Adoption: Children and Parents Speak

Rosenberg, Elinor B.

The Adoption Life Cycle: The Children and Their Families Through the Years

Russell, M.

Adoption Wisdom:  A Guide to the Issues and Feelings of Adoption

Schaefer, C.

The Other Mother: A True Story of A Woman’s Love for the Child She Gave Up for Adoption

Schooler, J. & Norris, B.

Journeys After Adoption: Understanding Lifelong Issues

Severson, Randolph W.

A letter to adoptive parents on open adoption

Silber, K., Speedlin, K.

Dear Birthmother: The Open Adoption Classic

Soll, J.

Adoption Healing…A Path to Recovery

Steinberg, G., Hall, B.

Inside Interracial Adoption: Strength-based, Culture-Sensitizing Parental Strategies for Inter-Country or Domestic Adoptive Families That Don’t “Match”

Thomas, N.

When Love is Not Enough: A Guide to Parenting Children with RAD – Reactive Attachment Disorder

 Van Gulden, H., Bartels-Rabb, L.

Real Parents, Real Children: Parenting the Adopted Child

Watkins,, M. & Fisher, S.

Talking To Your Young Children About Adoption

The books listed above are available in the regional Alabama Post Adoption Connection resource libraries and may be checked out by adoptive families and professionals. For more information, please visit www.casapac.org  or contact APAC at 1-866-803-2722.

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