Laura Hoskins, who runs a private practice in Brattleboro, Vt. and specializes in adopted children and their families, offers some recommended reading for counselors working with adopted and foster children:

For clinicians and parents:

• Creating Capacity for Attachment by A. Becker-Weidman
• Twenty Things Adopted Children Wish Their Parents Knew by Sherrie Eldridge
• Affect Regulation, Mentalization and the Development of Self by P. Fonagy, G. Gergerly, E. Jurist and M. Target
• The Transforming Power of Affect by Diane Fosha
• Attaching in Adoption by Deborah Gray
• Nurturing in Adoption: Creating Resilience After Neglect and Trauma by Deborah Gray
• Toddler Adoption: The Weaver’s Craft by Mary Hopkins-Best
• Attachment-Focused Family Therapy by Daniel Hughes
• Facilitating Developmental Attachment by Daniel Hughes
• Building the Bonds of Attachment by Daniel Hughes
• Brothers and Sisters in Adoption by Arleta James
• Rebuilding Attachments with Traumatized Children by Richard Kagan
• A Love Like No Other: Stories from Adoptive Parents by Pamela Kruger and Jill Smolowe
• A General Theory of Love by T. Lewis, F. Amini and R. Lannon
• Making Sense of Adoption: A Parent’s Guide by Lois Ruskai Melina
• The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog and Stories from a Psychiatrist’s Notebook:  What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love and Healing by Bruce Perry and Mara Szalavitz
• Born for Love by Bruce Perry and Mara Szalavitz
• Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution Is Transforming America by Adam Pertman
• Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self by A.N. Schore
• Affect Disregulation and Disorders of the Self by A.N. Schore
• Affect Regulation and Repair of the Self by A.N. Schore
• The Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal Experience by Daniel Siegel
• The Mindful Therapist by Daniel Siegel
• Adolescent Girls in Crisis by Martha Straus
• When Love Is Not Enough: A Guide to Parenting Children with RAD by Nancy L. Thomas
• Real Parents, Real Children by Holly van Gulden
• Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother by Jana Wolff
• Maternal Deprivation Reassessed by Mary Ainsworth
• Healing Power of the Family: Illustrated Overview of Life with the Disturbed Foster or Adopted Child by Richard Delaney
• Troubled Transplants: Unconventional Strategies for Helping the Disturbed Foster or Adopted Child by Richard Delaney
• Treating Explosive Kids: The Collaborative Problem-Solving Approach by Ross W. Greene and J. Stuart Abon
• No-Talk Therapy by Martha Straus
• Adolescent Girls in Crisis by Martha Straus

For children:

• The Mulberry Bird by Anne Braff Brodzinsky
• How I Was Adopted by Joanna Cole
• Tell Me Again about the Night I Was Born by Jamie Lee Curtis
• Mama, Do you Love Me? by Barbara M. Joose
• A Mother for Choco by Keiko Kasza
• Over the Moon by Karen Kats
• I Love You Like Crazy Cakes by Rose Lewis
• All About Adoption:  How Families Are Made and How Kids Feel About It by Marc Nemiroff and Jane Annuziata
• We Belong Together: A Book About Adoption and Families by Todd Parr

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