Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents by Deborah D. Gray Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents
Book Review: Excellent resource for parents or professionals
Summary: 5 Stars
I am a clinical psychologist who works with families and children. This is an excellent book for parents and professionals. The techniques are well grounded in research and sound developmental theory, but are also explained clearly and without lots of jargon. Excellent examples are used to illustrate points and techniques.Book Review: Attaching in Adoption
Summary: 5 Stars
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.
Book Review: Comprehansive and Worthwhile
Summary: 4 Stars
I feel so fortunate to have read this book. It covered all of the attachment topics covered in my Foster/Adoption training, but in much more detail and with specific recommendations for at home bonding techniques. The book is very negative, however. I wish the author had provided more positive examples of successful treatment outcomes. Read this book in small bits and keep thinking to yourself that children are resilant. Good luck.Book Review: Good book, bad editing
Summary: 4 Stars
This book has some very useful information, if you can get past all of the typographical and gramatical errors. I found the book to be a good starting point for information on Reactive Attachment Disorder and the other disorders that neglected and abused children suffer from.Book Review: A great book to help promote attachment in older adoptees
Summary: 5 Stars
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?