Book recommendations?

[hackneylady]

Can anyone recommend books on adoption that you've found particularly helpful? We're just at the exploratory stage, so anything that gives insight into the issues involved, how things seem from a child's perspective, how the experience might affect them, emotional issues for adopting parents etc

Thanks so much!

Hi Hackneylady

I've found Healing Parents: Helping Wounded Children Learn to Trust & Love and adoption conversations very good, positive and easy to read. There are also good you tube links. One is the truth about adoption which are worth a look and filmed in the uk.

I found "What to Expect When You're Adopting...: A practical guide to the decisions and emotions involved in adoption" by Ian Palmer useful when we were starting out :)

Sally Donovan no matter what
Gives you a real insight into life after adoption!

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The ones I'd recommend (in addition to the above) are:

Toddler Adoption - A Weaver's Craft by Mary Hopkins-Best (covers issues specific to children aged 12 - 36 months, it's American so some stuff doesn't apply)

Real Children, Real Parents by Holly van Gulden (bit text book like, but good for covering the most common adoption issues of attachment, grief, development etc.)

Bubble Wrapped Children by Helen Oakwater (covers how to optimise contact, discuss the child's past, sensory memories that the child can't vocalise etc.)

What Every Parent Needs to Know by Margot Sunderland (general child development book, but is very good for development, attachment etc.)

I am currently reading Sally Donovan's No Matter What, and it's excellent.

I'd also recommend No Matter What by Sally Donovan plus From Fear to Love by Bryan Post