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Books

You can start out with these to help you learn about the parenting of children who suffer with attachment disorder.

Daniel Hughes  "Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children"

Daniel Hughes  "Facilitating Developmental Attachment in Foster and Adopted Children"

Nancy Thomas' "When Love is Not Enough"  Nancy gives specific strategies to blend structure and nurture in her therapeutic parenting.

Greg Keck and Regina Kupecky's "Parenting the Hurt Child"

Deborah Hage "Therapeutic Parenting - It's a Matter of Attitude"  Deborah offers many ideas to help you help your child.

Foster Cline and Jim Fay offer parenting techniques in their Love and Logic books.

MORE BOOKS ON ATTACHMENT DISORDER

Boeding, Conrad  "The Love Disorder"

Cline, Foster "Conscienceless Acts, Societal Mayhem"

Cline, Foster "Parenting with Love and Logic"

Cline, Foster "Grand parenting with Love and Logic"

Cline, Foster "Hope for High Risk Children: Reactive Attachment Disorder, Theory and Intrusive Therapy"

Cline, Foster "Parenting Teens with Love and Logic"

Cline/Helding "Can This Child Be Saved? Solutions for Adoptive and Foster Families"

Cline/Helding "Adopted and Foster Child Assessment"

Delaney, Richard "Fostering Change"

Delaney, Richard "The Healing Power of the Family: An Illustrated Overview of Life with the Troubled Foster or Adopted Child"

Delaney/McNerney "The Long Journey Home"

Fahlberg, Vera "A Child's Journey Through Placement"

Gianforte Mansfield/Waldmann "Don't Touch My Heart"

Karr-Mores/Wiley "Ghosts from the Nursery"

Keck/Kupecky "Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families with Special Needs Kids"

Levy, Terry "Attachment Interventions"

Levy/Orlans "Attachment, Trauma and Healing: Therapy for Children and Families"

Magid/McKelvey "High Risk: Children Without a Conscience"

McKelvey, Carole "Give Them Roots, Then Let Them Fly: Understanding Attachment Therapy"

McKelvey/Stevens "Adoption Crisis"

McKelvey, Carole  "Children of Rage"

O'Hanlon, Tim/Laws "Adoption and Financial Assistance: Tools for Navigating the Bureaucracy"

O'Hanlon, Tim "Adoption Subsidy: A Guide for Adoptive Parents"

O'Hanlon, Tim "Accessing Federal Adoption Subsidies After Legalization"

Peterson, Janelle "The Invisible Road"

Randolph, Liz "Children Who Shock and Surprise" - good to help educate family and friends - not to burdensome.

Randolph, Liz "Does Attachment Therapy Work?" (study)

Randolph, Liz "Broken Hearts, Wounded Minds: The Psychological Functioning of Severely Traumatized and Behavior Problem Children

Stock Kranowitz, Carol "The Out of Sync Child"  - Sensory Integration Disorder Information

Verny, Thomas "The Secret Life of the Unborn Child"

Verrier, Nancy "The Primal Wound"

Ward, Susan M.  "Attachment and Bonding: Information for Adoptive Parents"

Ward, Susan M.  "Older Child Adoption: Our First Year Together"

Welch, Martha "Holding Time"

Wesselmann, Debra "How to Become a Terrific Parent Even if You Didn't Have One"