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Rapidly Changing Face of Adoption Creates New Challenges for Parents and

Professionals

New book offers placement and counseling professionals specific guidance for screening and preparing

parents and children and offering them appropriate therapy.

 

SEATTLE, Jan 9, 2008 - Perspectives Press, Inc., The Infertility and Adoption Publisher, has released

attachment therapist and trainer Deborah Gray's second guide for parents and professionals working with older

and post-institutionalized adopted children Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma

(http://www.perspectivespress.com/nabos.html))

A follow-up to her highly praised Attaching in Adoption: Practical Strategies for Parents and Professionals,

Nurturing Adoptions is Gray's toolbox for professionals-social work, mental health, medical, etc.-whose

practices include fostered and adopted children (from both the US and abroad) who have experienced neglect,

abuse, and other traumas which impact their ability to experience normalcy in family life

 

Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma explores changes which have resulted in

higher proportions of children being adopted from multiple foster care placements and from institutional care, at

older ages and after repeated exposures to neglect and trauma.

 

Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma digests and presents important new brain

research which changes the way we understand how post-traumatic stress restructures the brain and then offers

practical strategies for helping children and their families

 

Nurturing Adoptions offers social workers and mental health professionals tools for:

·       Identifying and treating problems in traumatized children which will challenge family life

·       Assessing and preparing families for adoption

·       Matching children with families

·       Making careful moves in transitioning children

·       Helping children and parents to understand difficult pasts and prepare for a healthier future

·       Understanding and implementing the separate but equally important,t roles of social workers, mental health

workers and physicals in today's adoptive placements

·       Building professional practices networked for support and enhanced professional continuing education

 

As one advance reader, Julian Davies, MD, Co-Director of The Center for Adoption Medicine, University of

Washington, noted, "The 'required reading in adoption' list just got longer, and shorter. Nurturing Adoptions is

several long-awaited books in one: a deft overview of neglect and trauma's effects on children and families, a

collection of practical pearls for adoptive parents, a best practices primer for child welfare professionals, and a

lovely illustration for child therapists of Deborah Gray's state-of-the-art therapeutic approach."

 

About the book:
Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma by Deborah Gray

ISBN: 978-0-944934-33-3

Publisher: Perspectives Press, Inc

Date of publish: Fall, 2007

S.R.P.: $26.95

 

Available for purchase at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, independent booksellers, a variety of on-line

adoption sites, and directly from Perspectives Press, Inc. (http://www.perspectivespress.com/nabos.html)

 

About the Author:

Deborah Gray is a Seattle-based therapist practicing exclusively with foster and adoptive families. A frequently

recommended trainer, she is noted for her rare ability to "think like a child" in formatting practical therapeutic

tools which will engage them.

 

Contact:

Pat Johnston , 317-872-3055 , patjohnston@perspectivespress.com