Parenting the Hurt Child: Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow
By:
Gregory C Keck Regina Kupecky
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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5
Description:
The world is full of hurt children, and bringing one into your home can quickly derail the easy family life you once knew. Get effective suggestions, wisdom, and advice to parent the hurt child in your life. The best hope for tragedy prevention is knowledge! Updated and revised.
Publisher: NavPress
Release Date: 2009-06-15
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Very informative - For anyone that has a Reactive attachment child this book is a must. I have ready many books on this subject and this was so informative. It was like the author studied my adopted 11 year old and wrote a book about her.
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Excellent Book. A must have for adoptive parents of older children. - This book was very insightful and truly compassionate and understanding with the parents point of view. If you feel like your child has snowed the professionals into thinking your the one who is in serious need of help, then this book is a must read. I felt like I had really found a friend. Someone to put words to my feelings and to give me new insight in to my child's psyche.
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
This is a must read for all pre-adoptive families - After reading close to 20 great books, this one is the one that gave me the most day to day good advice, information and real life case stories. This should be a prerequisite for anyone adopting. It is truly a wealth of information that is written in an easy to read format.
Great book!
Customer Review: 1 out of 5
Prejudiced book - Throughout this book there is an assumption that the "hurt" child is one whose biological parent(s) have abused and/or neglected their child. In far too many cases the child becomes "hurt" because overzealous child protection authorities have removed the child from it's biological parent(s)or primary care giver since birth. A classic case like this was Logan Marr (see PBS Frontline "Logan Marr" on the Internet) who became psychologically "hurt" because of her removal from her biological mother and who would not settle down and was killed by her foster carer because she would not accept the foster carer as a new parent.
For the past two years I have had to deal with my own child's real psychological "hurt" from having been unnecessarily removed into foster care and then after two years returned to me as damaged goods. Keck and Kupecky have an arrogant disregard for a child's biological and social need for its own parent(s). This book is merely a "feel good" spin justification for the far too many and unnecessary adoptions and placement of children in out of home care, something which has damaged thousands of innocent and previously unharmed children.
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
A must read for parents of children with RAD - If you have a child with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) this is a book you must read. It is very informative, enlightening and helpful. It is an excellent reference to go back and read over and over. You can't change the fact a child has RAD. However, you can learn why he does what he does and how to best deal with the many behavioral issues specific to RAD. I found this book to be a eye opener, a relief (explains what you have been living through for who knows how long) and very helpful. A highly recommended read for any parent of a child with RAD, anyone considering international adoption and also for foster parents.
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