The science of parenting adopted children : a brain-based, trauma-informed approach to cultivating your child's social, emotional and moral development. / Arleta James.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

James, Arleta, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adopted children--Psychology.

Adopted children.

Psychic trauma in children.

Psychic trauma in children--Treatment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 pages)

Place of Publication:

London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2019.

Summary:

Many adoptees join their new families after having endured multiple traumatic experiences, which interrupts their development. Bringing together the latest research in brain science with the field of attachment, this book considers how the two can be linked to help children in healing both the brain and the heart. Laying out the many factors that can affect a child's mental health, it shows how parents can help to improve the development of a delayed child. Accessibly explaining cutting-edge neuroscience for parents, it gives the information needed to help with a traumatised child's social, emotional and moral development.

Contents:

Trauma interrupts development. So, think "Younger!"

Tips to grow up the "younger" adoptee

Bit about the brain: when the path most traveled is accompanied by toxic stress

Tips to re-route the brain down new paths

Attachment: mirroring the family's values

Breaking out of the collective

Tips to create connects

Emotional development: life with icebergs

Let's get regulated: avoiding wreckage!

Tips to tell the story! Making the implicit, explicit

Cognitive development: the traumatized child goes to school

Making toast in the toaster

Think inside the box

Let's get inside the box.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78450-572-2