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7+ YearsPublisher | Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
ISBN 13 | 9781849055369 |
ISBN 10 | 184905536X |
Book Description | This is another book about adoptive parenting. Probably not the kind of parenting you hear about in training, or read about in text books, but the real stuff: dynamic, messy, baffling adoptive parenting, rooted in domestic life. Adoptive parent Sally Donovan combines her knowledge of trauma and attachment gleaned from training courses and therapeutic parenting experts with her lived experience of parenting two traumatised children and bridges the gap between the two. She offers realistic advice on how to be 'good enough' in the face of both day-to-day and more bewildering challenges responding to meltdowns, overcoming anxieties about changes to established routines and, most importantly, how to be a strong parent who can protect and nurture your adopted child. This is another book about adoptive parenting, but it is unlike any other book you have read on adoptive parenting read it, weep, laugh and learn. |
About the Author | Sally Donovan seems to write as naturally as the rest of us breathe. Author: Adoption Today magazine. Sally is the author of memoir No Matter What which charts her experiences of adopting and parenting children with experiences of early trauma. Her second book The Unofficial Guide to Adoptive Parenting focuses on practical and supportive therapeutic parenting strategies. Her third book, Billy Bramble and the Great Big Cook Off is a therapeutic story for children of 8 - 13 who struggle with big, angry feelings. It is illustrated by Kara McHale. Sally's columns for Community Care magazine won her the British Society of Magazine Editors and the PPA Columnist of the Year (Business) and in 2017 she was awarded an OBE. Sally is currently working on a book about therapeutically parenting adopted adolescents which will be published in early 2019. |
Language | English |
Author | Sally Donovan |
Publication Date | 2014 |
Number of Pages | 232 |
The Unofficial Guide to Adoptive Parenting Paperback English by Sally Donovan - 2014