Adoption books for adults

Here a some of the many books that we know that adoptive parents have found useful - most can be found on the BAAF website, internet sites and of course, there is always the library/book shop!

Other authors that are particularly useful include Dan Hughes and Nancy Thomas.

First Steps in Parenting the Child who hurts: tiddlers and toddlers (2nd Ed.)
Archer C
Jessica Kingsley Publishers for Adoption UK JKP, 1999
ISBN: 1 85302 801 0

Next Steps in Parenting the Child who Hurts: tykes and teens
Archer C
Jessica Kingsley Publishers [1999]
ISBN: 978-1-85302-802-1

New families, old scripts: A guide to the language of trauma and attachment in adoptive families
Archer C, Gordon, C
Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2006
ISBN: 978-1-84310-258-8

Related by Adoption: A handbook for grandparents and other relatives
Argent, H
BAAF [2004]
ISBN: 978-1-903699-39-3

Dibs in Search of Self
Axline V
Ballentine Books: New York [1946]

Attachment, trauma and resilience: Therapeutic caring for children
Cairns K
BAAF, reprinted 2004
ISBN: 978-1-903699-10-2

A Child’s Journey through Placement
Fahlberg V
BAAF [1994] UK Edition