Betsy Keefer Smalley: 2 books
Wounded Children, Healing Homes
How Traumatized Children Impact Adoptive and Foster Families
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Why doesn’t our child return our love? What are we failing to understand? What are we failing to do? These questions can fill the minds of adoptive parents caring for wounded, traumatized children. Families often enter into this experience with high expectations for their child and for themselves...
Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child: Making Sense of the Past, 2nd Edition
Making Sense of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Approximately one of every four adopted children will have adjustment challenges related to their separation from the birth family, earlier trauma, attachment difficulties, and/or issues stemming from the adoption process. Common complicating issues of adopted children are feelings of rejection, abandonment,...