Attaching in Adoption Practical Tools for Today's Parents

Summary: Attaching in Adoption is a comprehensive guide for prospective and actual adoptive parents on how to understand and care for their adopted child and promote healthy attachment. This classic text provides practical parenting strategies designed to enhance children's happiness and emotional health. It explains what attachment is, how grief and trauma can affect children's emotional development, and how to improve attachment, respect, cooperation and trust. Parenting techniques are matched to children's emotional needs and stages, and checklists are included to help parents assess how their child.

Record details

ISBN: 9780857006066 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0857006061 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9786613528018
ISBN: 6613528013
ISBN: 1849058903
ISBN: 9781849058902
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (402 pages)
Publisher: London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Equipping Parents of Children at Risk for Attachment Problems; Chapter 1: What Is Attachment and Why Is It Important?; Chapter 2: Challenges for Children and Parents; Chapter 3: What Children Have Already Learned about Attachment; Chapter 4: Grief and Its Effects; Chapter 5: Trauma and Traumatic Loss; Chapter 6: The Impact of Cultural Change; Chapter 7: Other Complications for Attaching; Chapter 8: Emotional Development: Promoting Attachment at Every Phase; Chapter 9: The Shape of Progress.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.