Foster Care & Foster Parenting

books about foster children, by adult foster children and books about philosophies and general issues in foster care.

By Foster Children or Foster Parents

• The Heart Knows Something Different
• Foster Youth Share Their Ideas for Change
• A Child Called 'It'
• The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family

For Foster Parents and Foster Families

• Preparing Adolescence for Life After Foster Care: The Central Role of Foster Parents
• Rebuilding Children's Lives: A Blueprint for Treatment Foster Parents
• Separation Revisited: Adolescents in Foster Family Care
• Somebody Else's Children: The Courts, the kids, and the Struggle to Save America's Trouble Families
• Specialist Foster Family Care: A Normalizing Experience
• Bobbie's Story: A Guide For Foster Parents
• They Cage the Animals at Night
• Conversations to Foster Parents from...
• The Forgotten Children: A Study of the Stability of Continuity of Foster Care
• Foster Parenting Abused Children
• Kinship Foster Care: Policy, Practice and Research

More Books Related to Foster Care

• My Name Is Sarah
• Orphans of the Living : Stories of America's Children in Foster Care
• Out of Nowhere: A Novel
• Out of The Darkness The Story of Mary Ellen Wilson
• Turning Stones : My Days and Nights With Children At Risk

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Children's Books

books for Children in foster care as well as children with ADD, foster/adopted children, children with anger management issues, and even for biological children of foster parents.

Foster/Adoption Children's Issues

• A Place of My Own
• Rainbow Jordan
• All Kinds Of Families (ages 4 - 8)
• Foster Care - The Changing Family (young adult)
• Koala for Katie: An Adoption Story (ages 9-12)
• Onion Tears
• Everything You Need To Know About Living in a Foster Home
• My New Family (ages 5-8)

Feelings and Emotions

• Don't Pop Your Cork on Monday's: The Children's Anti-Stress Book
• Don't Feed The Monsters on Tuesday's: The Children's Self-Esteem Book
• Don't Rant and Rave on Wednesdays! : The Children's Anger-Control Book
• Don't Despair on Thursday!: The Children's Grief-Management Book
• Angry Monster Workbook
• Self-Control Patrol Workbook
• Sometimes I Drive My Mom Crazy, ...: A self-esteem book for the impulsive child
• Sometimes I Like To Fight, ...: A self-esteem book for children with difficulty in controlling anger
• The Bearnstain Bears Get in a Fight (ages 4-8)
• The Bearnstain Bears and the trouble With Friends (ages 4-8)

Trauma & Treatment Issues

• Alcoholism and the Family (Young Adult)
• Something Happened and I'm Scared to Tell:  A book for young victims of abuse
• No More Secrets For Me

Cultural Issues

• All The Colors We Are - The Story of how We Get our Skin Color
• Black, White, Others - Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Identity
• Black Is Brown Is Tan (ages 4-8)
• Black, White, Just Right! (ages 4-8)
• I'm Chocolate, You're Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and Biracial Children in a Race-Conscious World
• Benni & Victoria: Friends Throughout Time

Safety, Health & Development Issues

• Safety Scavenger Hunt (ages 4-8)
• My Body Is Private (ages 4-8)
• My Body Is Mine, My Feelings Are Mine: A Storybook about Body Safety for Young Children

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Foster-Adopt and Adoption

books for the foster family considering adoption, are in the process of adoption or are well on their way to foster/adoption.

• Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families With Special-Needs Kids: A Guide for Parents and Professionals
• Adoption Crisis: The Truth Behind Adoption and Foster Care
• Adoption for Troubled Children: Preparation Through Residential Treatment
• A Child's Journey Through Placement
• Real Parents, Real Children: Parenting the Adopted Child
• Assessing Foster and Adoptive Families for Placement of Sexually Abused Children
• Can This Child Be Saved?  Solutions For Adoptive and Foster Families
• Care and Commitment: Foster Parent Adoption Decisions
• Children In Foster Care and Adoption ( about bibliotherapy)
• Children of Open Adoption and Their Families
• Children With Prenatal Alcohol & Other Drug Exposure: Weighing The Risks of Adoption
• The Limits of Hope: An Adoptive Mothers Story

From Recorded Books. com -

• The Maze

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Child Health Care

books on good health, nutrition, exercise and general child care.

• Child Health Care: Living With Children, Working for Children

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Children's Mental Health

books regarding the mental health issues of children such as ADD, attachment disorders, PTSD, and how to develop better and more productive parenting skills for the special needs children.

ADD/ADHD Attachment Child Welfare

FAS/FAE Psychological & Development Clinical Assessment & Treatment

ADD/ADHD Issues

• ADD/ADHD Behavior-Change Resource Kit
• ADD Success Stores: A Guide to fulfillment for Families With Attention Deficit-Disorder
• Taking Charge of ADHD: The Complete, Authoritative Guide for Parents

For Children

• Shelley, the Hyperactive Turtle
• Jumpin Jake Settles Down: A Workbook for Active Impulsive Kids

Attachment Issues

• Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children
• Dissociative Children: Bridging the Inner and Outer Worlds
• Facilitating Developmental Attachment:  The Road to Emotional Recovery and behavioral Change in Foster and Adoptive Children
• A Secure Base : Parent-Child Attachment
• Attachment (Basic Books Classics)
• Separation: Anxiety and Anger
• Loss : Sadness and Depression
• The Making and Breaking of Affection
• Attachment Theory, Child Maltreatment and Family Support
• Maternal Deprivation Reassessed

FAS/FAE

• Broken Cord
• Reaching Out to Children With FAS/FAE
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
• Born Hooked : Poisoned in the Womb
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Psychological & Developmental Issues  

• Temperament : Individual Differences 
• Investing in Our Children : What We Know
• Sensitive Periods in Development
• Handbook of Antisocial Behavior
• Psychobiology of Behavioral Development
• Galen's Prophecy : Temperament in Human
• Temperament Tools : Working With Your Child's Inborn

Child Welfare Issues

• What Money Can't Buy
• A Generation at Risk
• Save the Family, Save the Child
• Diverting Children from a Life of Crime

Clinical Assessment & Treatment Issues

• The Abused Child: Psychodynamic Understanding and Treatment
• A Place of Connection:Expressive Counseling Techniques for Families & Individuals
• Haunted Children: Rethinking Medication for Common Psychological Disorders
• Assessment & Treatment of Behaviorally Trouble Children, Adolescents & Young Adults: A Manual & Working Book Using a Developmental Approach
• Attachment, Trauma & Healing: Understanding and Treating Attachment Disorder in Children and Families
• Behavior Belongs in the Brain: Neurobehavioral Syndrome
• Child's First Book About Play Therapy
• Children With Autism and Asperger Syndrome: A guide for Practitioners and Carers
• Families in Perpetual Crisis
• Family Connections: A Treatment Foster Care Model or Adolescents With Delinquency
• Too Scared to Cry : Psychic Trauma.

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General Parenting Books

After all - parenting is "learned" not " or "instinctual". We grow and learn as they grow and learn.

Emotions & Feelings

• All Feelings are OK: It's What You Do With Them That Counts
• The 10 Greatest Gifts I Give My Children
• Bullies & Victims: Helping Your Child Survive the Schoolyard Battlefield
• Your Child's Self Esteem

Books By Althea Solther, Ph.D   

• Helping Young Children Flourish
• The Aware Baby : A New Approach to Parenting
• Tears and Tantrums : What to Do When Children Cry

Discipline

• 1-2-3 Magic
• 'The Answer is No': Saying It and Sticking to It

Play

• 101 Great Ways to Keep Your Child Entertained While You Get Something Else Done
• 101 Ways To Make Your Child Feel Special
• 1001 Rhymes & Fingerplay
• 101 Activities for Kids in Tight Spaces: At the Doctors Office, on Car, Train, and Plane Trips

Practical Advice & Support

• Emotionally Intelligent Parenting
• Back to Basics: 101 Ideas for Strengthening Our children and Our Families
• Before It's Too Late:  Why Some Kids get into trouble And What Parents Can Do About It
• How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk
• The Assault on Parenthood

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