Nurturing Adoptions

Creating Resilience After Neglect and Trauma

Deborah Gray has done it again!
From the author of Attaching in Adoption

Adoption has changed dramatically in less than a decade. With higher and higher percentages of children joining their families not as newborns, but from domestic or international foster care or from orphanages abroad, both parents and the professionals with whom they consult need new skills.

From the author of Attaching in Adoption (already a must-have book for both adoptive parents and placement professionals) comes this new tool designed to help placement professionals and therapists whose practices are not focused specifically on adoption and attachment understand how new research on the impact of neglect, abuse, early trauma, and institutionalization on the developing brains of children can guide their practices in new directions. Nurturing Adoption’s goal is to help professionals to assist parents in healing their children’s and guiding them into strong and healthy relationships and productive adulthood.

Months before its publication date, people were already talking about Nurturing Adoptions! Explore the book by clicking at left on

Table of Contents for chapter titles and to read the full Introduction, which will give you a clear sense of Deborah Gray’s purpose in writing it.
Reviews for comments from advance readers in the field
Excerpts for a useful piece from the chapter on the social worker’s role

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