Zachary’s New Home: a Story for Foster and Adopted Children
by Geraldine M Blomquist & Paul B Blomquist
ISBN 0-8368-0937-8

“Children in foster care, whether they remain with foster parents or are eventually adopted, have usually suffered many painful separations. They are taken from dysfunctional or disrupted families and placed with strangers for reasons they may not understand. They may be sent to as many as four different homes before a permanent arrangement is made and may exhibit serious behavioral problems. They are generally very confused, angry and sad.
Foster and adoptive parents often experience a great deal of stress and confusion themselves in trying to manage these children. They usually find it helpful to be prepared with an understanding of what behaviors to expect.”
This book can be very helpful to families and therapists.

Amen, Daniel, MD (1998). Change Your Brain, Change Your Life.  Times Books, Random House.

Amen, Daniel (2002). Healing the Hardware of the Soul. New York: The Free Press.

Bailey, Becky, PhD (2003). I Love You Rituals. New York: Harper Collins.

Eshleman, Lark, PhD (2003). Becoming a Family: Promoting Healthy Attachments with Your Adopted Child.  Lanham, MD: Taylor Trade Publishers.

Eldridge, Sherrie (2005). Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew. Bantam Doubleday Dell; Reissue edition.

Guterl, F., What Freud Got Right. Newsweek, November 11, 2002, Pp. 50-51.

Hill, Robert and Castro, Edwardo. (2002). Getting Rid of Ritalin: How Neurofeedback Can Successfully Treat Attention Deficit Disorder Without Drugs. VA: Hampton Roads Publishing Co.

Hughes, Daniel (1998). Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Live in Deeply Troubled Children.  Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Hughes, Daniel (1996). Facilitating Developmental Attachment: The Road to Emotional Recovery and Behavorial Change in Foster and Adopted Children.

Karr-Morse, Robin and Wiley, Meredith. (1997). Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press.

Keck, Greg and Kupecky, Regina. (2002). Parenting the Hurt Child.  Colorado Springs, CO: Pinon Press.

Randolph, Elizabeth, MSN, PhD. (2000). Randolph Attachment Disorder Questionnaire, Third Edition.  The Attachment Center Press. P.O. Box 2764, Evergreen, CO 80437-2764

Rhodes, R. (1999). Why They Kill. New York: Alfred Knopf.

Robbins, Jim. (2000). A Symphony in the Brain: The Evolution of the New Brain Wave Biofeedback. Boston, MA: Atlantic Monthly Press.

Shapiro, Francine. (1998). EMDR: The Breakthrough Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress and Trauma. New York: Basic Books.

Van der Kolk, Bessel. (1996). Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body and Society. New York: Guilford Press.

Welch, Martha, MD. (1988). Holding Time. New York: Fireside Book of Simon & Schuster.

This is the reading list for the course "Reactive Attachment Disorder - Advanced CPPI" taught at Penn State Great Valley.  Many of these books are available through the Institute Bookstore.

Ainsworth, Mary (1978). Patterns of Attachment:  a Psychological Study of the Strange Situation.  New York:  Random House.

Amen, Daniel (1998.  Change Your Brain, Change Your Life.  Times Books , Random House.

Amen, Daniel (2002).  Healing the Hardware of the Soul.  New York:  The Free Press.

American Psychiatric Association. (2000). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV-TR. Washington, D.C:  American Psychiatric Association.

Anda, Robert, Felliti, V.J., Chapman, D.P. et al/  (2001). Abused boys, battered mothers, And male involvement in teen pregnancy. Pediatrics, February: 107 (2): E19.

Anda, Robert, Dube, S., Felitti, V., Edwards, V., Williamson, D. (2002), “Exposure to Abuse, Neglect, and Household Dsyfuntion Among Adults Who Witnessed Intimate Partner Violence as Children:  Implications of Health and Social Services.”  Violence and Victims,17 (1), 3 – 17.

ATTACh (Association for the Treatment and Training in the Attachment of Children): http://www.attach.org.

Bascom, Barbara, & McKelvery, Carole (1997).  The Complete Guide to Foreign  Adoption:  What to expect and how to prepare for your new child.  New York: Pocket Books of Simon & Schuster Inc.

Beauvais-Godwin,L. & Godwin, R. (1997).  The Complete Adoption Book.  Holbrook, MA:  Adams Media corporation.

Bettelheim, Bruno (1989).  The Uses of Enchantment:  the meaning and importance of fairy tales.  New York:  Random House.

Blair, Clancey (2002).  “School Readiness:  integrating cognition and emotion in a Neurobiological conceptualization of children’s functioning at school entry.  American Psychologist, 57(2), 111-127.

Blum, Deborah.  (2002).  Love at Goon Park.  Cambridge, MA:  Perseus Books Group.

Bowlby, John . ( 1988).  A Secure Base: Parent-Child Attachment and Healthy Human Development.  Basic Books.

Cantfield, Ken.( 1996). The Heart of a Father.  How Dads Can Shape The Destiny of America.  Northfield Publishing.

Eshleman, Lark (2003, In Press).  Becoming a Family:  Promoting healthy attachments with your adopted child.  MD:  Taylor Trade Publishing.

Garbarino, J. ( 1999).  Lost Boys:  Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them.  Anchor Books.

Garbarino,  J., Kastelny, Kathleen, Dubrow, Nancy. (1991).  No Place To Be A Child. Jossey: Bass.

Garbarino, J., Stott, Frances.( 1992).  What Children Can Tell Us . Eliciting, Interpreting and Evaluating Critical Information from Children.  Jossey - Bass.

Guterl, F.  What Freud Got Right.  Newsweek  Nov. 11, 2002 pp 50-51.  “Freud’s drives really do exert, and they have their roots in the limbic system, a primitive part of the brain that operates mostly below the horizon of consciousness.  Now known as emotions drives comprise five:  rage, panic, separation distress, Lust and seeking.”

Hallowell, E.  (2002) The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness:  Five Steps to Help Kids Create and Sustain Lifelong Joy.  Ballentine Books.

Harris, Judith. (1998).  The Nurture Assumption:  Why Children Turn Out The Way They Do. Simon & Schuster.

Hill, Robert and Castro, Eduardo.  (2002).  Getting Rid of Ritalin:  How Neurofeedback can successfully treat attention deficit disorder without drugs.  VA:  Hampton Roads Publishing Co.

Keck, G., Kupecky, Regina.(2002).  Parenting the Hurt Child:  Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow. 

Karr-Morse, Robin and Wiley, Meredith.  (1997). Ghosts from the Nursery:  Tracing the Roots of Violence. New York:  Atlantic Monthly Press.

Kroll, J. (1993).  PTSD/Borderlines in Therapy:  Finding the Balance.  W.W. Norton and Co.

McKelvey, Carole A., ed. (1995) Give Them Roots, Then Let Them Fly:  Understanding Attachment Therapy.  Evergreen, CO:  Attachment Center Press.

Minuchin, S. (1974).  Families and Family Therapy.  Harvard University Press.

Randolph, Elizabeth. ( 1999 ). Children Who Shock and Surprise:  A Guide to Attachment Disorders. 3^rd Ed.

Rhodes. R. (1999).  Why They Kill.  New York:  Alfred Knopf.

Robbins, Jim.  (2000).  A Symphony in the Brain:  The evolution of the new brain wave biofeedback.  Boston:  Atlantic Monthly Press.

Satir, Virginia.  (1988) . The New People Making.  Science and Behavior Books.<

Shapiro, Francine. (1998). EMDR:  The Breakthrough Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma.  New York:  Basic Books.

Siegel, Daniel.  (1999).  The Developing Mind.

Sherman, R. and Friedman, N. (1986). Handbook of Structured Techniques in Marriage and Family Therapy.  Brunner Mazel.

Vanderkolk, B., McFarlane, A., & Weisaeth, L. (Eds.). (1996).Traumatic Stress:  The Effects of  Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body and Society.  The Guilford Press.

Welch, Martha.  (1988).  Holding Time.  New York:  Simon and Schuster.