Wounded Children, Healing Homes: How Traumatized Children Impact Adoptive and Foster Families

Why doesn’t our child return our love? What are we failing to understand? What are we failing to do? 

These questions can fill the minds of adoptive parents caring for wounded, traumatized children. Families often enter into this experience with high expectations for their child and for themselves but are broadsided by shattered assumptions. This book addresses the reality of those unmet expectations and offers validation and solutions for the challenges of parenting deeply traumatized and emotionally disturbed children.

"The authors do a great job of presenting the current understanding of how childhood maltreatment shapes the brain and behavior, and then providing specific strategies and suggestions for how caregivers can respond to assist the children in healing. Especially valuable is the emphasis on how the disruptive behavior and intense needs of maltreated children impact the caregivers and other children in the family."
—Mia

Format: Paperback