Publications
Recognizing and Managing Children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/Effects:
A Guidebook published by the Child Welfare League of America 1997
For any parent or professional living or working with children who are challenged by FAS, this important guide offers practical advice and solid information on dealing FAS's lifelong effects on behavior and learning. It covers the historical, medical and social aspects of fas, and details common behavioral characteristics associated with the condition. Taking a developmental approach, the guide offers specific behavioral management techniques to be used from infancy through late adolescence. The author's own case studies are used to clarify psychological concepts and to personalize the syndrome. This book can be ordered through www.amazon.ca , www.amazon.com , and directly from the publisher at www.cwla.org or from your local bookstore.
Parenting Your Older Adopted Child
published by New Harbinger Publications
This book is written for adoptive parents and adoption social workers who are wrestling with the challenges of creating, supporting, and enhancing families whose children were older than two years at the time of the placement. The book provides basic knowledge about the challenges that families may face, and will provide simple skills and techniques that can enhance the durability and quality of the parent/child relationship.
The booklet includes the six key elements of successful older child adoption
- 1. Acquiring knowledge about the child’s needs
- 2. Becoming skilled in meeting those needs
- 3. Creating support for the child, siblings who live in the home, and parents
- 4. Developing patience and tolerance
- 5. Embracing the adoptive relationship as a lifelong commitment
- 6. Facing the facts by accepting the child for who s/he is now.
It includes topics such as attachment, grief and loss, aggressive and/or sexually intrusive behaviors, family identity formation, international adoption issues, and more
This book can be ordered through www.amazon.ca, www.amazon.com, and directly from the New Harbinger Publications www.newharbinger.com
Eden’s Secret Journal: The Story of An Older Child Adoption
published by Adoption Press
My name is Eden and I am 13 ½ years old. I am writing this story about me because my therapist said I should. She said if I write down all about my life then maybe I will understand it better. Read an excerpt.
The book is available from Adoption Press
Cleah: The Warrior Slave
It was an age of change, when people were filling the World and the fairies and other folk were retreating into the Otherworld and beyond. In this time, there lived Cleah, a young orphan slave girl who worked in the household of Lord Hugh and his family.
This publication is available for purchase as an *Ebook only from Loonie Link: Trinity Enterprise Inc. Read the first chapter of Brenda’s book at Loonie Link now for free.
*What is an e-Book? An e-Book is an electronic book, one you read digitally on your computer, laptop screen or on devices called ebook readers.
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