REFERENCES
From Training to Practice: Implementing Adoption & Foster Friendly Schools™
A source list of the books, trainings, and reports referenced in this Connected We Thrive™ webinar from iCARE Adoptive And Foster Families, presented to the Illinois Association of School Social Workers in September 2026. These resources support schools, families, and professionals in building connection, resiliency, and hope for children and youth in adoptive, foster, and kinship families.
- Keeping the Promise: The Critical Need for Post-Adoption Services to Enable Children and Families to Succeed, Policy and Practice Perspective – Harmony Adoption Services and the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, August 2010
- Beneath the Mask: Understanding Adopted Teens – Debbie Riley and John Meeks, MD, Center for Adoption Support and Education (C.A.S.E.)
- The Neurosequential Model in “Working with Traumatized Youth in Child Welfare” – Dr. Bruce Perry, 2006
- Bidirectional Longitudinal Relationships Between Parents’ Dysregulation, Children’s Emotion Regulation, and Children’s Internalizing Problems – Wang, X., Xie, R., Ding, W., Chen, Y., Wang, X., Zhang, R., & Li, W., 2025. Children and Youth Services Review, 170, Article 108169
- Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency: A Comprehensive Guide to Promoting Understanding and Healing in Adoption, Foster Care, Kinship Families, and Third Party Reproduction – Sharon Kaplan Roszia and Allison Davis Maxon
- Integrative Parenting: Strategies for Raising Children Affected by Attachment Trauma – Debra Wesselmann, Cathay Schweitzer, and Stefanie Armstrong
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma – Bessel van der Kolk, MD
- A Need to Know: Enhancing Adoption Competency Among Mental Health Professionals – David M. Brodzinsky, Ph.D., The Donaldson Adoption Institute, August 2013
- The Connected Child – Karyn B. Purvis, Ph.D., David Cross, Ph.D., and Wendy Lyons Sunshine
- Profiles in Adoption – National Council for Adoption, 2023
- Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI®) – Karyn Purvis Institute for Child Development
- School-Based Mental Health Professional Adoption Competency Training – National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training Initiative (NTI), Center for Adoption Support and Education (C.A.S.E.)
- NTDC Training for Foster and Adoptive Parents – Spaulding, Children’s Bureau, DHHS
- From Fear to Love – Bryan Post, 2010
- Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control: A Love-Based Approach to Helping Attachment-Challenged Children with Severe Behaviors – Heather T. Forbes and Bryan Post, 2009