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Title

Subtitle

Year

Brodzinski, D. and Schecter, M.

The Psychology of Adoption

1993

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Theoretical, empirical, clinical, and social policy issues offer insights into the problems facing adoptive parents.

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Subtitle

Year

Jewett-Jarratt, Claudia

Helping Children Cope with Separation And Loss

1994

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Contains compassionate, step-by-step guidance for any concerned adult who wants to help a child talk about, cope with, and recover from a loss. Offers specific techniques for helping a child overcome sadness, anger, and anxiety.

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Title

Subtitle

Year

Babb, Anne L.

Adopting and Advocating for the Special Needs Child

A Guide for Parents and Professionals

1997

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An easy to follow, "must read" book of wisdom for professionals and parents interested in older child adoption. Covers the decision to adopt a waiting child, finding the child, becoming a family, schooling decisions, and moderate to extreme problems afterwards.

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Title

Subtitle

Year

Gray, Deborah D.

Attaching in Adoption

Practical Tools for Today's Parents

2002

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Written by a clinical Social Worker, takes a close look at how children and families adjust. Especially pertains to adopting older children who may have been abused/neglected. Encourages realistic expectations and offers excellent practical suggestions for bonding.

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Subtitle

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McCoy, Theresa L.

Getting Ready for Adoption

1993

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Excellent workbook for adoption caseworkers to use with school age kids on their way to an adoption plan. It covers important questions a child has about what adoption might be like. A "fill in", "participate" together book for expressing hopes and worries.

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Title

Subtitle

Year

Festinger, Trudy

Necessary Risk

A Study of Adoptions and Disrupted Placements

1986

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Succinct research study of 800+ children, 6 yrs and older, placed for adoption in NYC by 32 private agencies. Detailed data about backgrounds and problems of the children, characteristics of adoptive parents, services given, circumstances of the disruptions.

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Title

Subtitle

Year

Delaney, Richard

Troubled Transplants

Unconventional Strategies for Helping Troubled Kids

1997

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Practical, unconventional treatment strategies for addressing the exhausting problems sometimes seen in foster and adopted kids. They can breathe life into the child, soften his defenses, sidestep power struggles, and alter distorted views.

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Title

Subtitle

Year

Brisch, Karl Heinz

Treating Attachment Disorders

From Therapy to Therapy

1999

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Offers in-depth analysis of the many manifestations and intensities of attachment problems, from pre-conception, to post-birth and post-adoption. With comprehensive yet easy to understand text, this is a great resource for parents and professionals.

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Title

Subtitle

Year

Cline, Foster and Helding, Cathy

Adopted and Foster Child Assessment

1999

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Designed to be used by parents as a pre clinical assessment tool for identifying problems or predicting future ones in adopted or foster children who have been in the home for at least 6 months. Easily scored by non professionals.

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Title

Subtitle

Year

Delaney, Richard

The Healing Power of the Family

Overview of Life with a Troubled Foster or Adopted Child

1998

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A non-technical approach to understanding and treating disturbed foster or adopted children. Describes most common behavioral problems, explains their powerful negative impact on parents, and gives examples of family-based interventions.

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Title

Subtitle

Year

Partridge, Susan

Learning from Adoption Disruption

1986

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Exceptionally helpful book for adoption professionals to use as they gauge the adequacy of their special needs adoption program and practices. The "Stages of Disruption" are most insightful, and make the book worth buying." Contributing factors" also useful.

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Title

Subtitle

Year

Cipolla, J. McGowan, D.B.,Yanulis M.A.

Communicating Through Play

Techniques to Assessing and Preparing Children for Adoption

1999

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Book to help adoption workers develop a larger repertoire of techniques for assessing and preparing children for adoption.

Author

Title

Subtitle

Year

Schroen, Susan

Here I Am

A Life book Kit for use with Children with Developmental Disabilities

1985

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A complete kit which includes a resource manual for professionals and parents and a child's take home work book.  Designed to guide professionals or parents as they help child in transition work through different issues, separation, abuse, etc.

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Title

Subtitle

Year

Winkler, Robin

Clinical Practice In Adoption

Psychology Practitioner

Notes

The author provide frameworks and skills necessary in work involving any client who is affected by adoption including adoptees adoptive parents birth parent and the entire extended adoptive family.

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Title

Subtitle

Year

Groze, Victor

Strengthening Resources & Decreasing Stressor in Adoptive Families:

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The Post Legal special needs adoption family preservation treatment team project

Author

Title

Subtitle

Year

Fahlberg, Vera

Residential Treatment

A Tapestry of Many Therapies 

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This book is a long awaited contribution to the difficult and misunderstood field of residential treatment as an effective form of out of home therapy for the severely disturbed child.

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Title

Subtitle

Year

Franklin, Nancy-Boyd

Reaching Out In Family Therapy

Home-Based, School and Community Interventions 

Notes

Reaching out to families in the everyday setting in which they live can be a powerful mode of therapeutic intervention, particularly for families who face complex, multiple problems.

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Title

Subtitle

Year

Reitz, Miriam

Adoption and The Family System

Notes

This book is a unique contribution to the literature on adoption and family therapy. For the first time, family therapists will now understand how to handle adoption within a family therapy context; and adoption worker will understand the implication of adoption in the family system.

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Title

Subtitle

Year

Spaulding for Children

Adoption Support & Preservation Services

Notes

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Goldstein, Joseph

Beyond The Best Interests of The Child

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This book should be read and discussed by every judge and lawyer and social worker dealing with problems of child parent relationships.

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Title

Subtitle

Year

Grabe, Pam

Common Sense Approach to Therapy Options For Families

Notes

PACO is a non profit volunteer organization of proud adoptive parents, relatives and other adults which gives emotional support to adoptive families and forever families and to any one else interested in learning about adoption.

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Title

Subtitle

Year

Greenspan, Stanley

The Clinical Interview of the Child

Notes

This beautifully lucid volume provides a god way of assessing and understanding the developing child in all the dimensions mental life and behavior.

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Title

Subtitle

Year

Wright, Jesse

Cognitive Behavior Therapy

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Cognitive therapy has emerged as the premier school of psychotherapy because of its practical strategies, tremendous research support and broad applicability.

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Title

Subtitle

Year

Yudofsky, Stuart

Neuropychiatric Assessment

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Neuropsychiatry, which focuses on assessment and diagnostic issues at the interface of psychiatry and neurology is enjoying a renaissance largely because of the technological innovations detailed in these five chapter. Here 11 recognized experts have assembled an overview of the of the essential techniques, current research and future trends in nueropychiatric assessment concentrating on clinical application for psychiatry patients.

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Title

Subtitle

Year

Understanding the Medical Aspects of Physical Abuse:

A Guide For Child Protective Service Workers

Notes

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Year

Schetky, Diane

Principles & Practice of Child & Adolescent Forensic Psychiatry

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This textbook represents the high water mark of the subject it on a handy shelf for repeated ready reference: Child forensic physiatrists should memorize it.

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Title

Subtitle

Year

Janzen, Curtis

Family Treatment In Social Work Practice

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Maanes, Cloe

Strategic Family Therapy

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This book is a detailed guide to the theory and practice of strategic family therapy -an approach that focuses on distribution of power in families.

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Title

Subtitle

Year

Green, Maurice

Interpersonal Psychoanalysis

Diagnosis & Treatment of Family Relationships

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This book is the out growth of an idea concerning mental illness and health. It presents a way of understanding health through the emotional give and take of family relationships.

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Title

Subtitle

Year

Ackerman, Nathan W.

Psychodynamics of Family Life , The

Notes

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Brazelton, Berry

Families Crisis and Caring

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Among the issues discussed in this book are The involved Father, Parental Rivalry, Grand-parenting, Loss of a parent, Fathering Alone, Stepfamilies, Illness in The Family

Author

Title

Subtitle

Year

Kadushin, Alfred

Social Work Interview, The

Notes

The author has formulated a theory for short term case work based on the assumption that effectiveness and efficiency of treatment can be greatly increased when practitioners help clients achieve specific and limited goals of their own choosing within brief periods of services.

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Title

Subtitle

Year

Rose, Sheldon D.

Treating Children In Groups

Notes

This book is a valuable manual for teaching therapists how to apply the principles of behavior modification. Its one of the first books to demonstrate how these principles can be applied to small group treatment of children.

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Title

Subtitle

Year

Scotti, Joseph

Behavioral Interventions

Principles, Models and Practice

Notes

With a blend of psychological and developmental perspectives, this encyclopedic volume offers practitioners an array of revolutionary behavioral intervention strategies that work.

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Title

Subtitle

Year

Baker, Christina

Rebuilding Children's Lives

A Blueprint for Treatment Foster Parents

Notes

This book works as a blueprint for treatment and foster parents. Offers an approach to foster parenting that combines compassion with practical, outcome oriented strategies for teaching children how to change their behaviors. In addition to providing continual learning opportunities for a child this approach enables you to improve the quality of care, reduce negative behavior, and build on a child's strengths.

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Title

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Year

Munns, Evangeline

Theraplay

Notes

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Kaduson, Heidi

101 Favorite Play Therapy Techniques

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This book will appeal to clinicians, educators, and child caregivers from all orientations. Perhaps its biggest contribution goes beyond its covers in stimulating readers own creativity in developing and adapting in play therapy techniques to meet the challenges of their most important work.

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Title

Subtitle

Year

Chess, Stella

Temperament in Clinical Practice

Notes

Clearly the brightest lights in terms of serious research in personality development are Thomas and Chess who initiated the New York Longitudinal Study.

Author

Title

Subtitle

Year

Friedberg, Robert

Therapeutic Exercises for Children

Notes

Guided Self-Discovery Using Cognitive Behavioral Techniques

Author

Title

Subtitle

Year

Betts, Donna J.

Creative Arts Therapies Approaches in Adoption and Foster Care

Notes

Contemporary strategies for working with individuals and families.

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Title

Subtitle

Year

Corder, Billie Farmer

Structured Psychotherapy Groups

For Sexually Abused Children And Adolescents

Notes

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Derosier, Melissa

Group Interventions & Exercises for Enhancing Children's Communication, Cooperation, & Confidence

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Sweeney, Daniel S

Handbook of Group Play Therapy, The

How to do it, How it Works, Whom it's Best for

Notes

Here is a comprehensive guide to the most effective and dynamic childhood intervention available to counselors, therapists, teachers, psychologists, and anyone who works with kids.

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Title

Subtitle

Year

On the Client's Path

A Manual for The Practice of Solution Focused Therapy

Notes

A wellspring of freedom and creativity for the therapist. Over responsibility for the client is out, honoring the client in.

Author

Title

Subtitle

Year

Rapee, Ronald

Treating Anxious Children & Adolescents

Notes

This is an excellent book. It is well written, highly readable and very informative. A Valuable resource, Treating Anxious Children and Adolescents contains detailed descriptions of specific techniques and strategies, forms, and other therapeutic material that levels of experience will find useful.

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Title

Subtitle

Year

Bourne, Edmund

Anxiety & Phobia Workbook, The

Simple, Concise, Step By Step Directions for Mastery of: Relaxation, Exercise, Coping with Panic

Notes

This workbook is a practical and comprehensive guide offering help to anyone who is struggling with panic attacks, agoraphobia, social fears, generalized anxiety , obsessive compulsive behaviors or other anxiety disorder.