Books for adopters
Books for adopters
The table below contains a recommended reading list for adopters. Books are also available from all good stockists so please do support your local bookstore or library.
Name | Author | Comments |
|---|---|---|
Everyday Parenting with Security and Love: Using PACE to Provide Foundations for Attachment | Kim Golding | A practical guide for parents to help them develop an attitude of PACE. |
First Steps in Parenting the Child who Hurts: Tiddlers and Toddlers Second Edition | Caroline Archer | A really easy to access book that describes the mind of a child with developmental trauma. Archer is an adoptive parent herself and also a consultant in adoption. |
Next Steps in Parenting the Child Who Hurts: Tykes and Teens | Caroline Archer | A very readable book which is really informative and full of ideas of responses to specific difficulties such as lying, stealing and toileting. |
Reparenting the Child Who Hurts: A Guide to Healing Developmental Trauma and Attachments | Caroline Archer and Christine Gordon | This book looks at brain development in children with developmental trauma. It is full of case examples and has some useful handouts at the back for parents. |
Miriam Silver | A book full of practical ideas to help you manage your child. Silver writes in a way that makes sense and she uses diagrams to help you understand attachment theory and subsequent behaviour patterns. | |
The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma | Van Der Kolk | This book explains how the brain is affected by trauma and stress in children and adults. It is quite heavy going but a fascinating read and one of the best books that explains the impact of trauma on the brain. |
Teenagers and Attachment: Helping Adolescents Engage with Life and Learning | Daniel Hughes and others | Contributed to by several authors. This book looks at specifically attachment difficulties in adolescents at home and school. |
Daniel Hughes | This book is aimed more at professionals but is a helpful read for any parents who are undergoing DDP. | |
Jonathan Baylin and Daniel Hughes | This book focuses solely on the impact of developmental trauma in children. It has a lot of case examples to help illustrate their points. It uses a lot of jargon but books about the brain usually do. | |
Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Traumatized Children | Daniel Hughes | First published in 1998, this book is now in its second edition. It is quite heavy going but looks at the mind of a child with attachment difficulties and the stresses of parenting. |