Monday, November 29, 2010

Recommended Foster Care Reading List

I don't think I've put this here yet, and I keep forgetting to put it in a central place, so here we go.

This is the recommended reading list from experienced foster parents at Foster Care Central.
  • A Guide to Foster Parenting: Everything but the Kids! By Mary Ann Goodearle
  • The Five Love Languages of Children, By Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell
  • Bad Childhood---Good Life: How to Blossom and Thrive in Spite of an Unhappy Childhood, By Dr. Laura Schlessinger
  • Parenting Your Out-of-control Child: An Effective, Easy-to-use Program for Teaching Self-control, by George M. Kapalka
  • 10 Days to a Less Defiant Child: The Breakthrough Program for Overcoming Your Child's Difficult Behavior, by Ph.D. Jeffrey Bernstein Ph.D.
  • How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk (How to Help Your Child), by Adele Faber , Elaine Mazlish
  • Fostering a Child's Recovery, by Mike Thomas, Terry Philpot, and Mary Walsh
  • Robbie Rabbit's Trail through Foster Care (and the Trail through Adoption) www.robbietherabbit.com [for kids] 
  • Mulberry Bird (if going through adoption only), by Anne Braff Brodzinsky and Diana L. Stanley [for kids]
  • Forever Fingerprints, Maybe Days, by Jennifer Wilgocki (highly recommend) [for kids]
  • Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control by Heather Forbes
  • Adopting the Hurt Child, by Gregory Keck
  • Parenting the Hurt Child, by Gregory Keck 
  • Telling the Truth to your Adopted or Foster Child: Making Sense of the Past by Betsy Keefer & Jayne Schooler 
  • Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew, by Sherrie Eldridge 
  • Another Place at the Table, by Kathy Harrison
  • Three Little Words, by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
  • The Connected Child, by Karyn Purvis, David Cross, and Wendy Sunshine
  • Nancy Thomas CDs (audio)
  • Amazon.com Foster Parent Reading List

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