Resources

Adoption and Foster Care

Books for Children

 
  • A Mother For Chocoby by Keiko Kasza

  • How I Was Adopted by Joanna Cole

  • Over the Moon: An Adoption Taleby by Karen Katz

  • Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born by Jamie Lee Curtis

  • My New Mom and Me(ages 3-7) by Renata Galindo

Movies for Children

 
  • Kung Fu Panda series

  • Despicable Me series

  • Tarzan (Disney)

  • Boxtrolls

  • Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip

Children At Risk

Books

  • The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self by Alice Miller

  • Parenting from the Inside Out by Daniel J. Siegel and Mary Hartzell

  • Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Piper

  • The Disappearing Girl: Learning the Language of Teenage Depression by Dr. Lisa Machoian

  • Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We can Save Them by James Garbarino, Augusta Gone, Martha Tod Dudman

  • Teens in Turmoil by Carol Maxym and Leslie York

  • Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation by Steven Levenkron

  • Addictive Thinking: Understanding Self-Deception by Abraham Twerski, MD

Websites for Parents

 

Books for Adults

 

Adult Children of Divorce

  • Home Will Never Be the Same Again: A Guide for Adult Children of Gray Divorce by Bruce R. Fredenburg and Carol R. Hughes

Separation and Divorce

  • Better Apart, The Radically Positive Way to Separateby Gabriella Hartlyer with Elena Brower