1. Adopting the Hurt Child by Gregory Keck and Regina Kupecky
2. Adopting the Older Child by Claudia Jewett
3. Adoption Healing… A Path to Recovery by Joe Soll
4. An Insider’s Guide to International Adoption by Marcia Vaughn
5. Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today’s Parents by Deborah D. Gray
6. Attachment, Trauma and Healing: Understanding and Treating Attachment Disorder in Children and Families by Terry M. Levy and Michael Orlans
7. Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control by Heather Forbes and B. Brian Post
8. Brainstorm by Daniel Siegel
9. Building the Bonds of Attachment by Daniel Hughes
10. Cross Cultural Adoptions by Caryn Abramomitz
11. Does Anybody Else Look Like Me?: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Multiracial Children by Donna Jackson Nakazawa
12. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: A Guide For Families and Communities by Ann Pykowicz Streissguth
13. Growing Girls: The Mother of All Adventures by Jeanne Marie Laskas
14. I Don’t Have Your Eyes (a children’s picture book) by Carrie A. Kitze
15. Lifebooks: Creating a Treasure for the Adopted Child by Beth O’Malley
16. Parenting from the Inside Out by Daniel Siegel
17. Parenting Other People’s Children: Understanding and Repairing Reactive Attachment Disorder by John L. Stoller
18. Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child by Patty Cogen
19. Raising a Sensory Smart Child: The Definitive Handbook for Helping Your Child with Sensory Integration Issues by Lindsey Biel
20. Recognizing and Managing Children With Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/Fetal Alcohol Effects: A Guidebook by Brenda McCreight, Ph.D.
21. Risk and Promise: A Handbook for Parents Adopting a Child From Overseas by Ira Chasnoff
22. The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family by Karyn B. Purvis, David R. Cross, and Wendy Lyons Sunshine
23. The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder by Carol Stock Kranowitz
24. The Post Adoption Blues by Karen Foli
25. The Sensory Sensitive Child: Practical Solutions for Out-of-Bounds Behavior by Karen A. Smith and Karen R. Gouze
26. The Waiting Child: How the Faith and Love of One Orphan Saved the Life of Another by Cindy Champnella. An incredible true story, honestly depicting the love, loss, suffering, healing, and hope that come together in older child adoption.
27. The Whole-Brained Child by Daniel Siegel
28. Toddler Adoption: A Weaver’s Craft by Mary Hopkins-Best
29. Treating Attachment Disorders: From Theory to Therapy by Karl Heinz Brisch, translated by Kenneth Kronenberg
30. Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew by Sherrie Eldridge
31. We See the Moon by Carrie A. Kitze. This story allows children to express their questions to, and love for, their birthparents.
32. When Love Is Not Enough by Nancy Thomas

1. Utah’s Adoption Connection
2. Empowered to Connect
3. Adoptive Families
4. Love Without Boundaries
5. Adoption Learning Partners
6. Attachment and Bonding Center of Ohio
7. Lauren Casper

1. Because They Waited: An Adoptive Parent Education System from Heart of the Matter Seminars (available at www.heartofthematterseminars.com)
2. Trust-Based Parenting: Creating Lasting Changes in Your Child’s Behavior by the TCU Institute (available at www.child.tcu.edu)
3. Online courses through Adoption Learning Partners (available at www.adoptionlearningpartners.org). Our favorites include “Let’s Talk Adoption” and “The Journey of Attachment.”
4. Conspicuous Families course (available at www.adoptionlearningpartners.org)

Adoptive Families magazine (available at www.adoptivefamilies.com)

1. Fund Your Adoption – Adoption Grants
2. My Adoption Advisor – How to Afford Adoption
3. Creating a Family – 9 Ways an Average Person Pays for Adoption
4. Adoptive Families – Financing Adoption: Creative Fundraisers