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	Library Books

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Author	Title
Adair,	Surrogate Mother's Story,
Amen	Change Your Brain, Change Your Life
Amen	Healing ADD – The Breakthrough Program That Allows You to See and Heal the 6 Types of ADD
Amen	Healing the Hardware of the Soul
Amen/Good	Mind Coach – How to Teach Kids and Teenagers to Think Positive
Ames/llg/Haber,	Your One-Year-Old--The Fun-loving, Fussy 12 to 24 Month-Old
Ames/llg,	Your Three-Year-Old--Friend or Enemy,
Ames/Jig,	Your Four-Year-Old--Wild and Wonderful,
Ames/Jig,	Your Six-Year-Old,
Ames/Haber,	Your Seven-Year-Old--Life in a Minor Key,
Ames/Haber,	Your Eight-Year-Old--Lively and Outgoing,
Apter	The Confident Child
Arms,	Adoption: A Handful of Hope,
Armstrong,	Kiss Daddy Goodnight,
Axness,	What is Written on the Heart--Primal Issues in Adoption,
Babb/Laws,	Adopting & Advocating for the Special Needs Child,
Bayard,	How to Deal With Your Acting-Up Teenager,
Barth/Berry,	Adoption and Disruption,
Bates,	Gift Children,
Beck, Terry	Building healthy friendships
Bernstein,	Loving Rachel,
Bernstein	The Lost Children of Wilder – The epic struggle to change foster care
Besharov,	Recognizing Child Abuse A Guide for the Concerned
Bess,	Nobody Don't Love Nobody,
Belles,	The Penguin Adoption Handbook,
Bowlby, John	A Secure Base,
Bodenhamer	Back in Control
Bodenhamer	Parent in Control
Briggs,	Your Child's Self-Esteem,
Brodzinsky,	Being Adopted--The Lifelong Search for Self,
Brodzinsky/Smith,	Children's Adjustment to Adoption,
Bullock/Grimes/McNamara	Bruised Before Birth,
California Attorney General	Child Abuse Educator’s Responsibility
California Attorney General	Child Abuse Prevention Handbook
Calif. Dept. of Social Services	Family Resource Centers
Case	Talking is good for everyone
CHS	The Changing Picture of Adoption
CISRP	Capturing cash for kids
Clarke	Self-esteem: A Family Affair
Cline	Conscienceless Acts, Societal Mayhem, Adopting, Incest.
Cline	Uncontrolled Kids – From heartbreak to hope
Cline/Fay,	Parenting with Love and Logic,
Cline/Helding	Can this Child be Saved? Solutions for adoptive and foster families
Cole	How I was Adopted?
Coleman, et al, edit.	Working With Older Adoptees,
Comer/Poussaint,	Raising Black Children,
Cronin	Two Birthdays for Beth
Cross/Bazron/Dennis/Isaacs	Towards a Culturally Competent System of Care
Crumbley, Joseph	Transracial adoption and foster care
Crumbley/Little,	Relatives Raising Children,
Cunningham/Bower,	Parenting Resource ManuaI--Transracial Parenting Project.
Delaney,	Fostering Changes,
Delaney,	The Healing Power of the Family,
Delaney/Kunstal,	Troubled Transplants,
Detoledo/Brown	Grandparents as Parents
Diller,	Running on Ritalin
Dinkmeyer/McKay,	Parenting Teenagers
Dobson,	The Strong-Willed Child
Dodson,	How to Parent
Dorris, Michael,	The Broken Cord
Dreikurs,	The New Approach to Discipline-Logical Consequences.
Edelman	Developing blended funding programs for children’s mental health care systems
Ekman	Why Children Lie
Ellis,	How to Control Your Anger Before It Controls You.
Eyre,	Teaching Your Children Joy,
Fahlberg,	A Child's Journey Through Placement,
Fay, Jim	Helicopters, Drill Sergeants and Consultants,
Fay, Jim	Love and Logic Magic – when kids leave you speechless
Fay, Jim/Cline, Foster	The Pearls of Love and Logic for parents and teachers
Federici	Help for the hopeless child
Fitzgerald/Kubler-Ross, Elizabeth	The Grieving Child: a parents guide
Flick, Grad,	Power Parenting For Children With ADD/ADHD,
Fonseca	Bury Me Standing: the gypsies and their journey
Franklin/Ferber,	May the Circle Be Unbroken : An Intimate Journey into the Heart of Adoption
Gable,	Filling in the Blanks--A Guided Look at Growing-Ip Adopted.
Gardner, Richard	Stories About the Real World,
Gibbons, Kay	Ellen Foster
Gil, Eliana	The Healing Power of Play
Gilman,	The Adoptions Resource Book,
Glatz,	Fostering or Adopting the Troubled Child,
Goldin	ADHD: Thinking outside the box –a multi-systems approach
Gordon,	Parent Effectiveness Training
Gray	Attaching in Adoption, Practical Tools for Today's Parents
Greene,	The Explosive Child
Greenspan,	The Challenging Child
Gritter, James,	The Spirit of Open Adoption,
Grollman	Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers
Groot,	I Will Never Give Up
Grotevant/McRoy,	Openness in Adoption,
Gtenn/Nelsen,	Raising Self-Reliant Children In A Self-Indulgent World,
Guidelines	Answers to a Child’s Questions about Death (english and spanish versions)
Hage, Deborah	Therapeutic Parenting – it’s a matter of attitude
Hallowelt/Ratey,	Driven to Distraction, ADHD
Harris/Johnson	Tenderheaded – a comb-bending collection of hair stories (for African-American children)
Harrison/Campbell/Chumbley	Making History--Social Worker's Guide to Lifebooks,
Hartmann,	Attention Deficit Disorder--A Different Perception,
Holt/Ketterman,	When You Feel Like Screaming--Help for Frustrated Mothers,
Hopkins-Best,	Toddler Adoption,
Hopson	Raising the Rainbow Generation
Hubner/Wolfson,	Somebody Else's Children
Hughes,	Facilitating Developmental Attachment,
Hunt,	Loving Someone Else's Child,
James, Beverly	Handbook for Treatment of Attachment – Trauma Problems in Children
Jewett,	Helping Children Cope with Separation and Loss,
Jewett,	Adopting the Older Child,
Johnston,	Perspectives on a Grafted Tree,
Johnston	Launching a Baby’s Adoption
Jordan	A guide to implementing the children’s system of care in California
Jordan	Integrated services for children and families
Justice	What’s happening in court?
Kaeser/Gillespie,	Of Many Colors,
Kaplan, Sharon/Rillera,	Cooperative Adoption---A Handbook,
Karen, Robert,	Becoming Attached,
Kaye	Family Rules
Keck, Gregory/Kupecky, Regina	Adopting the Hurt Child,
Keck, Gregory/Kupecky, Regina	Parenting the Hurt Child
Kleinfeld/Wescott,	Fantastic Antone Succeeds,
Koehler	The Day We Met You
Kranowitz,	The Out-of-Sync Child--Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Integration Dysfunction.
Krementz, Jill	How it feels to be adopted
Kroll, Joe	Beginnings: how families come to be
Ladew, Phil	Fight for Your Rights - A Handbook for Foster Youth and Former Foster Youth.(pdf is here)
LaFountain,	Setting Limits,
Lanski	101 ways to make your child feel special
Lauck	Blackbird – a childhood lost and found
Leach,	Children First,
Levine,	Parents are People Too,
Levy	Handbook of attachment interventions
Levy/Odans,	Attachment, Trauma and Healing,
Lewis	Foster Care resource guide
Lieberman,	New Traditions--Redefining Celebrations for Today's Family,
Lifton	I’m Still Me
Lindsay, Caroline,	Nothing Good Ever Happen to Me,
Lifton,	Journey of the Adopted Self--A Quest for Wholeness,
Livingston, Carol	Why Was I Adopted?
Loux	The Limits Of Hope – An Adoptive Mother’s Story
MacCracken,	Turnabout Children,
Magid/McKelvey,	High Risk--Children Without a Conscience,
Mansfield/Waldmann,	Don't Touch My Heart,
Martz,	If l had My Life to Do Over Again, I Would Pick More Daisies,
McBratney	Guess How Much I Love You
McCarthy	A Gift
Mckelvey	Give Them Roots Then Let Them Fly
McDonnell,	News from the Border,
McNamara,	Adoption and the Sexually Abused Child,
McNamara,	Sexually Reactive Children in Adoption and Foster Care,
McGoldrick,	Genograms in Family Assessment,
Melina,	Making Sense of Adoption--A Parent's Guide,
Melina,	Raising Adopted Children,
Melina/Roszia,	The Open Adoption Experience,
Michelman/Schneider,	The Private Adoption Handbook,
Miller	Did my first mother love me? A story for an adopted child
Montessod,	The Discovery of the Child,
Napier/Whitaker,	The Family Crucible,
National Adoption Center	Overcoming geographic barriers: a guidebook for families pursuing interstate adoption
National Adoption Center	Placing children across geographic boundaries: a step-by-step guide for social workers
National Endowment for Financial Education	How To Make Adoption An Affordable Option
Neff,	Tough Love How Parents Can Deal With Drugs,
Nelson,	Positive Discipline,
Nelson/Lott,	Positive Discipline for Teenagers,
Nelsen/Lott/Glenn	Positive Discipline A – Z
Nelson,	On the Frontier of Adoption: A Study of Special Needs Adoptive Families,
Nelson/Lewak,	Who's the Boss? Love, Authority and Parenting,
Noble/Coram,	Nobody's Child,
O'Hanlon,	Accessing Federal Adoption Subsidies After Adoption,
O' Hanlon,	Adoption Subsidy--A Guide for Adoptive Parents,
Paterson	Families
Pelzer,	A Child Called "It",
Pelzer,	The Lost Boy,
Pelzer	A Man Named Dave
Pepher	Reviving Ophelia--Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls,
Pertman	Adoption Nation – how the adoption revolution is transforming America
Peters	It’s Never Too Soon To Discipline
Peterson,	The Invisible Roads-Parental Insights to Attachment Disorder,
Plumez,	Successful Adoption,
Potter-Efron,	Letting Go of Anger,
Powers,	Adoption for Troubled Children,
Project Share	The Adoption Cycle
Psychographics, Inc.,	Do You Know Your Child?,
Reitz/Watson,	Adoption and the Family System,
Rogers	Let’s Talk About It: Adoption
Rosenberg,	The Adoption Life Cycle,
Roszia, Sharon Kaplan /Melina, Lois	The Open Adoption Experience
Roszia, Sharon Kaplan/Baran, Annette/Coleman	Creating Kinship
Saffian,	Ithaka--A Daughter's Memoir of Being Found,
Sandmaier	When Love is Not Enough: how mental health professionals can help special- needs adoptive families
Schaef,	Co-Dependence--Misunderstood-Mistreated,
Schaefer,	The Other Mother,
Schaffer/Linsstrom,	How to Raise an Adopted Child,
Schlaerth,	Raising a Large Family,
Schooler, Jayne,	The Whole Life Adoption Book,
Seita/Mitchell/Tobin,	In Whose Best Interest?,
Seligman,	The Optimistic Child,
Severson,	Adoption--Charms and Rituals for Healing,
Severson,	Can't You Sit Still,
Siegel,	Parenting Your Adopted Child,
Silber/Dorner	Children Of Open Adoption
Silber/Speedlin,	Dear Birthmother, Thank You for Our Baby,
Soll, Joe	Adoption Healing…A Path To Recovery
Sorosky/Baran/Pannor,	The Adoption Triangle,
Steinberg/Hall	Inside Transracial Adoption
Strassberger	Our Children From Latin America
Sullivan,	Adopt the Baby You Want,
Taylor	The House That Crack Built
Thevenin,	Mothering and Fathering,
Thomas	When Love is Not Enough: a guide to parenting children with RAD
Tremitiere,	The Large Adoptive Family: A Special Kind of Normal
Turecki,	The Difficult Child,
Turner	Through Moon And Stars And Night Skies
Unell,	Discipline Without Shouting or Spanking,
Van de Kamp,	A Guide to Reporting Child Abuse,
VanGulden/Bartels-Rabb	Real Parents, Real Children,
Verrler,	The Primal Wound,
Villarreal/Mckinney/Quackenbush	Handle with Care – helping children prenatally exposed to drugs and alcohol
Wadia-EJlis,	The Adoption Reader,
Watkins/Fansher	Talking With Young Children About Adoption,
Welch,	Holding Time,
Wilder Foundation,	Collaboration Handbook,
Winkler/Brown/Vankeppel/ Blanchard	Clinical Practice In Adoption
Woon/Ng, Nancy	Adoption And The Schools
York,	ToughLove A Self-Help Manual for Kids in Trouble,
York/Wachtel,	ToughLove,
Zelman,	Early Intervention with High-Risk ChiJdren,

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