Parenting the Hurt Child: Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow Author: Gregory Keck | Language: English | ISBN:
1600062903 | Format: PDF
Parenting the Hurt Child: Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow Description
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In this sequel to their
Adopting the Hurt Child (1998), Keck and Kupecky explore how parents can help adopted or foster children who have suffered neglect or abuse. They begin by outlining changes in adoption and fostering procedures in recent years and use case studies to document the friction and disruption introduced into a household when a hurt, adopted child is brought into the family. The authors examine attachment disorders and control issues as well as parenting techniques that work (praise, consistency, flexibility, anger management) and those that don't work (punishment, withholding parental love, grounding, time-outs, deprivation). They highlight the symptoms of abuse and options for therapy. Foster or adoptive parents need to claim the role of parent in the child's life, the authors advise, suggesting ways to deal with teachers and other authority figures in the child's life. The book includes a variety of resources on, among other topics, finance, therapy for siblings and parents, cultural differences, and marriage counseling.
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Sadly, the world is full of children who have been hurt by someone they should have been able to trust. If you’ve chosen to bring one of these children into your family, you likely have hopes, dreams, and images of success—dreams and images that might now look dark and hopeless.
In this updated and revised sequel to Adopting the Hurt Child, authors Gregory C. Keck and Regina M. Kupecky share valuable suggestions to help your hurt child heal, grow, and develop. You’ll learn what works and what doesn’t, as well as hear stories from those who have been there.
The best hope for parenting a hurt child is knowledge. Get started here.
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- Series: Hollywood Nobody
- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: NavPress; Rev Upd edition (June 15, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1600062903
- ISBN-13: 978-1600062902
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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