Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents

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Summary: A great book to help promote attachment in older adoptees
Review: This book is important for parents who adopt older children with attachment problems, or who have biological children with such problems. Some clinicians believe that the attachment formed to the mother or to some other consistently present person tends to endure and implies the formation of intra-organismic structures that won't go away even under the impact of adverse conditions. (See Ainsworth, Mary D. Salter. "Object Relations, Dependency, and Attachment: A Theoretical Review of the Infant-Mother Relationship." Child Development 40 (1969): 969-1025). If this is true, then parents who face this dilemma can learn with Deborah Gray's help to understand and validate their children's rage and grief, and then try to help them with the therapeutic techniques that in Gray's experience promote attachment and increase the likelihood of success during the course of therapy.
Gisela Gasper Fitzgerald, author of ADOPTION: An Open, Semi-Open or Closed Practice?

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Summary: Attaching in Adoption
Review: This is the best Adoption book I've read (and up to now I've read more than 8). I would recommend it for everybody involved in Adoption.
Thank you Deborah for this wonderful book! It would be really nice to have it translated to Spanish.

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Summary: Great for People Just Starting Adoption Process
Review: We haven't adopted yet, but I found this book so helpful and informative. We want to be informed, loving parents and I would say this book is a must for people in that category. Lots of help, lots of hope. Great book. We also treasured our adoption journal, Waiting for You, by Kirsten Davis (ISBN: 0972394206). We got it on Amazon.com also and it is a real blessing. It gave us space to process some of our thoughts this book evoked. God bless!