Where do adoptive parents and prospective adoptive parents find a comprehensive, yet short and easy to read summary of attachment and bonding? "The Essential Link: Attachment Information for Adoptive Parents" is the answer. The book provides Information and explanations about attachment and bonding between adoptive parents and their new child. It answers questions about what attachment is and how it might be compromised in children who were adopted. Provides practical tips for ways to improve the attachment and connection between parents and adopted children. Short, easy-to-read summary of RAD (reactive attachment disorder), attachment, and bonding within adoptive families. Adoption agencies should make this required reading for all adoptive families. (Some agencies already do this, but ALL adoption and social service organizations should give it to their clients.) Read this and be more informed about a critical adoption topic.
I've lived all over... Detroit, Steamboat Springs, Mackinac Island, London, Sydney... Had all kinds of jobs... swim instructor, caterer, housekeeper to a priest, nanny, curator... And now I live in Asheville, North Carolina, as a therapeutic family consultant, author, and public speaker. What a wonderful, unconventional, challenging, surprising life I've led!
