Love Never Quits

By Gina Heumann

This is the true story of the hell one family lived through parenting a child with reactive attachment disorder, a severe diagnosis related to children who experienced early childhood trauma. This inspirational story covers over a decade of daily struggles until they finally found a resolution and made it to the other side. The family remained intact, and this once challenging son is now achieving things never thought possible.

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Adoption Adventure

By Ann Lamphere

Adoption Adventure: A Guide to Making Adoption Decisions” is a book full of adoption information. It covers every aspect of adoption that you could ask for. Information on infant adoptions, special needs adoptions and international adoptions is included. The author covers the types of parents allowed to adopt, including couples, singles (male and female) and even LGBTQ families. The countries with children available for adoption are listed and costs are outlined. The newest category of Secondary Adoptions are touched on.

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My Adoption Life

By Ann Lamphere

We expect all adoption stories to end with, “They all lived happily ever after.”
What if they don’t? I understand when nothing works well in adoptions, because I’ve been there.
In this book, you'll see what can happen when something goes insanely wrong. You'll also see that it is possible to overcome the issues of a bad adoption situation and turn them into an incredibly positive experience.

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Children and Complex Trauma: A Roadmap for Healing and Recovery

Dr. Chuck Geddes

Children and Complex Trauma: A Roadmap for Healing and Recovery presents simple, practical, and proven strategies – based around the Complex Care and Intervention Program. This approach, fine-tuned in well over 300 challenging cases, and supported by compelling outcome data, will help you answer questions like:

• Why does my child act like this?

• What do I need to understand about how these children’s brains work?

• How can I help a child heal from past traumatic experiences?

• What proven strategies can help a child manage their big emotions?

There is a powerful message of hope in these pages and the case stories will forever transform how you understand and support children. It's also a roadmap for necessary changes in practices and policies across our systems so that we can help children heal from their pasts.

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The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog

By Bruce Perry

How does trauma affect a child's mind - and how can that mind recover? In the classic The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, Dr. Perry explains what happens to the brains of children exposed to extreme stress and shares their lessons of courage, humanity, and hope. Only when we understand the science of the mind and the power of love and nurturing can we hope to heal the spirit of even the most wounded child.

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What Happened to You?

By: Bruce Perry & Oprah Winfrey

Have you ever wondered "Why did I do that?" or "Why can't I just control my behavior?" Others may judge our reactions and think, "What's wrong with that person?" When questioning our emotions, it's easy to place the blame on ourselves; holding ourselves and those around us to an impossible standard. It's time we started asking a different question.

Through deeply personal conversations, Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain and trauma expert Dr. Bruce Perry offer a groundbreaking and profound shift from asking “What’s wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?”

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but, he spit in my coffee

By Keri Williams

A desperate mother must grapple with impossible choices as her young son with reactive attachment disorder (RAD) becomes too dangerous to live at home, but is only growing bigger, stronger, and more violent while in treatment.

Based on a shocking true story, this unfolds-like-fiction memoir exposes the dysfunctions of the child welfare and mental health systems and how they fail kids with RAD and their families. 

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House on Fire: Finding Resilience, Hope and Purpose in the Ashes

By: Jenn T Grace

House on Fire, a raw and riveting memoir by author and publisher Jenn T. Grace, explores her journey growing up as an adopted child in a chaotic household. Surviving a turbulent childhood marked by family conflict, mental illness, and alcoholism, Grace promises herself that life will get better. But as an adult, Grace’s personal and professional successes belie her inner turmoil.

When she bravely steps in to adopt her sister’s emotionally troubled daughter, she soon discovers that love and patience are not enough to meet the child’s needs. Desperate to find help, Grace and her wife struggle for years to navigate a broken mental health system that too often fails families and their children, leaving them with a heart-wrenching decision to save their sanity.

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