Books on Girls

• Bringing up Girls by James Dobson
• Daughters & Dads: Building a Lasting Relationship by Chap Clark
• he Wonder of Girls: Understanding the Hidden Nature of Our Daughters by Michael Gurian

Brain Structure and Function

• The Maltreated Child: Finding What Lurks Beneath by Steven Gray
• Brain-Based Parenting: The Neuroscience of Caregiving for Healthy Attachment by Daniel Hughes & Jonathan Baylin

Child Development

• The Irreducible Needs of Children: What Every Child Must Have to Grow, Learn, and Flourish by T. Berry Brazelton & Stanley Greenspan

Communication

• he Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World by Marti Olsen Laney

Coping Strategies

• The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are – Your Guide to A Wholehearted Life by Brené Brown
• Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown
• Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown
• I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn’t): Making the Journey from “What Will People Think?” to “I Am Enough” by Brené Brown
• Change Your Brain, Change Your Life by Daniel Amen
• Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter Levine & Ann Frederick
• Anatomy of the Soul: Surprising Connections Between Neuroscience and Spiritual Practices That Can Transform Your Life and Relationships by Curt Thompson

External Support

• Adoption Is a Family Affair! What Relatives and Friends Must Know by Patricia Irwin Johnston

Identity and Transracial or Transcultural Adoptions

• The Face in the Mirror: Teenagers and Adoption by Marion Crook
• A Single Square Picture: A Korean Adoptee’s Search for Her Roots by Katy Robinson
• Transracial Adoption and Foster Care: Practical Issues for Professionals by Joseph Crumbley
• Cross-Cultural Adoption: How to Answer Questions from Family, Friends, and Community by Amy Coughlin & Caryn Abramowitz
• Culture Keeping: White Mothers, International Adoption, and the Negotiation of Family Difference by Heather Jacobson
• Does Anybody Else Look Like Me?: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Multiracial Children by Donna Jackson Nakazawa
• In Their Parents’ Voices: Reflections on Raising Transracial Adoptees by Rita Simon
• In Their Siblings’ Voices: White Non-Adopted Siblings Talk About Their Experiences Being Raise with Black and Biracial Brothers and Sisters by Rita Simon
• In Their Voices: Black Americans on Transracial Adoption by Rhonda Roorda
• Inside Transracial Adoption: Strength-based, Culture-sensitizing Parenting Strategies for Intercountry or Domestic Adoptive Families That Don’t “Match” by Beth Hall & Gail Steinberg
• Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption by Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chinyere Oparah & Sun Yung Shin
• The Interracial Adoption Option: Creating a Family Across Race by Marlene Fine & Fern Johnson
• The Making of Isaac Hunt by Linda Leigh Hargrove
• Yell-Oh Girls!: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American by Vickie Nam
• All About Adoption: How to Deal with the Questions of Your Past by Anne Lanchon
• Adopted Teens Only: A Survival Guide to Adolescence by Danea Gorbett

Older Child Adoption

• Adopting the Older Child by Claudia Jewett
• No Panic! How to Adopt an Older Child by Bethany Gardiner
• Our Own: Adopting and Parenting the Older Child by Trish Maskew
• Parenting Adopted Adolescents: Understanding and Appreciating Their Journeys by Gregory Keck
• Parenting Your Adopted Older Child: How to Overcome the Unique Challenges and Raise a Happy and Healthy Child by Brenda McCreight
• Parenting Adopted Teenagers: Advice for the Adolescent Years by Rachel Staff
• Wisdom from Adoptive Families: Blessings and Challenges on the Path of Older Child Adoption by Kris Kittle and Kelly Reed

Parenting Strategies

• The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children by Ross W. Greene
• From Chaos to Calm: Effective Parenting of Challenging Children with ADHD and Other Behavioral Problems by Janet Heininger & Sharon Weiss
• Help – My Kid Is Driving Me Crazy: The 17 Ways Kids Manipulate Their Parents, and What You Can Do About It by David Swanson
• Boundaries with Kids: When to Say Yes, How to Say No by Henry Cloud & John Townsend
• The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive by Daniel J. Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson
• No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind by Daniel J. Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson
• Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control: A Love Based Approach to Helping Children With Severe Behaviors by Heather Forbes & B. Bryan Post
• Creating Loving Attachments: Parenting with PACE to Nurture Confidence and Security in the Troubled Child by Kim Golding
• How to Really Love Your Child by Ross Campbell
• When Love Is Not Enough: A Guide to Parenting with RAD-Reactive Attachment Disorder by Nancy Thomas
• Playful Parenting: An Exciting New Approach to Raising Children That Will Help You Nurture Close Connections, Solve Behavior Problems, and Encourage Confidence by Lawrence Cohen
• Liberated Parents, Liberated Children: Your Guide to a Happier Family by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
• How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
• Parenting with Love & Logic by Foster Cline & Jim Fay
• Positive Discipline parenting books by Jane Nelsen

Sensory Processing Disorder

• Sensational Kids: Hope and Help for Children with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) by Lucy Jane Miller
• No Longer A Secret: Unique Common Sense Strategies for Children with Sensory or Motor Challenges by Lucy Jan Miller
• The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder by Carol Kranowitz
• The Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun: Activities for Kids with Sensory Processing Disorder by Carol Kranowitz
• Growing an In-Sync Child: Simple, Fun Activities to Help Every Child Develop, Learn, and Grow by Carol Kranowitz & Joyce Newman
• The Out-of-Sync Child Grows Up: Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder in the Adolescent and Young Adult Years by Carol Kranowitz
• Raising a Sensory Smart Child: The Definitive Handbook for Helping Your Child with Sensory Processing Issues by Lindsey Biel & Nancy Peske
• Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight: What to Do If You Are Sensory Defensive in an Overstimulating World by Sharon Heller
• The Sensory Child Gets Organized: Proven Systems for Rigid, Anxious, or Distracted Kids by Carolyn Dalgliesh

Sex Education

• From Boys to Men: All About Adolescence and You by Michael Gurian
• Outgrowing the Pain: A Book for and About Adults Abused as Children by Eliana Gil
• Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis

Siblings

• Brothers and Sisters in Adoption: Helping Children Navigate Relationships When New Kids Join the Family by Arleta James
• My Brother, My Sister: Sibling Relationships in Adoption and Foster Care by Regina Kupecky
• Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish

Skills

• How to Talk So Kids Can Learn at Home and in School by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
• Boys and Girls Learn Differently!: A Guide for Teachers and Parents by Michael Gurian Stories About Childhood Trauma & Abuse
• The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist’s Notebook – What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing by Bruce Perry & Maia Szalavitz
• A Child Called It: One Child’s Courage to Survive by Dave Pelzer
• The Lost Boy: A Foster Child’s Search for the Love of a Family by Dave Pelzer
• A Man Named Dave: A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness by Dave Pelzer
• Three Little Words: A Memoir by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
• Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island by Regina Calcaterra

Written for Professionals

• Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience after Neglect by Deborah Gray
• Parenting Your Adopted Child by Brenda McCreight
• Transforming Troubled Children, Teens, and Their Families: An Internal Family Systems Model for Healing by Arthur Mones
• A Child’s Journey Through Placement by Vera Fahlberg
• Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy: Essential Practices and Methods by Arthur BeckerWeidman
• Attachment-Focused Family Therapy by Daniel Hughes
• Attachment-Focused Family Workbook by Daniel Hughes
• Adoption Therapy: Perspectives from Clients and Clinicians on Processing and Healing PostAdoption Issues by Laura Dennis
• Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children by Daniel Hughes
• Creative Interventions with Traumatized Children by Cathy Malchiodi
• EMDR and the Art of Psychotherapy with Children: Treatment Manual by Robbie Adler-Tapia & Carolyn Settle
• EMDR Therapy and Adjunct Approaches with Children: Complex Trauma, Attachment, and Dissociation by Ana M. Gomez
• Facilitating Developmental Attachment: The Road to Emotional Recovery and Behavioral Change in Foster and Adopted Children by Daniel Hughes
• Fostering Changes: Treating Attachment Disordered Foster Children by Richard Delaney
• Inside I’m Hurting: Practical Strategies for Supporting Children with Attachment Difficulties in Schools by Louise Michelle Bombier
• Trauma, Attachment and Family Permanence by Caroline Archer
• Treating Complex Trauma in Adolescents and Young Adults by John Briere & Cheryl Lanktree
• Building Resilience to Trauma: The Trauma and Community Resiliency Models by Elaine MillerKaras
• Attachment, Trauma, and Healing: Understanding and Treating Attachment Disorder in Children, Families and Adults by Terry Levy & Michael Orlans
• The Attachment Therapy Companion: Key Practices for Treating Children & Families by Arthur Becker-Weidman, Lois Pessolano Ehrmann & Denise LeBow
• Transracial and Intercountry Adoptions: Cultural Guidance for Professionals by Rowena Fong & Ruth McRoy
• Tripping on the Color Line: Black-White Multiracial Families in a Theraplay: Helping Parents and Children Build Better Relationships Through Attachment-Based Play by Ann Jernberg & Phyllis Booth

Written for Teachers

• Attachment in the Classroom: The Links Between Children’s Early Experience, Emotional Wellbeing and Performance in School by Heather Geddes
• Reaching and Teaching Children Who Hurt: Strategies for Your Classroom by Susan Craig
• Help for Billy: A Beyond Consequences Approach to Helping Challenging Children in the Classroom by Heather Forbes