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REFERENCES

A single source list of the books, trainings, and reports referenced across all iCARE Adoptive And Foster Families webinars and presentations. These resources support schools, families, and professionals in building connection, resiliency, and hope for children and youth in adoptive, foster, and kinship families.

  • Beneath the Mask: Understanding Adopted Teens – Debbie Riley and John Meeks, MD, Center for Adoption Support and Education (C.A.S.E.)
  • Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control: A Love-Based Approach to Helping Attachment-Challenged Children with Severe Behaviors – Heather T. Forbes and Bryan Post, 2009
  • 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
  • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma – Bessel van der Kolk, MD
  • Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Traumatized Children – Daniel A. Hughes, Ph.D.
  • The Connected Child – Karyn B. Purvis, Ph.D., David Cross, Ph.D., and Wendy Lyons Sunshine
  • From Fear to Love – Bryan Post, 2010
  • Guided Growth: Educational and Behavioral Interventions for Children and Teens with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and Early Trauma – Ira J. Chasnoff, MD, and Ronald J. Powell, Ph.D.
  • Help for Billy: A Beyond Consequences Approach to Helping Challenging Children in the Classroom – Heather T. Forbes, LCSW
  • Integrative Parenting: Strategies for Raising Children Affected by Attachment Trauma – Debra Wesselmann, Cathay Schweitzer, and Stefanie Armstrong
  • 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
  • A Need to Know: Enhancing Adoption Competency Among Mental Health Professionals – David M. Brodzinsky, Ph.D., The Donaldson Adoption Institute, August 2013
  • The Neurosequential Model in “Working with Traumatized Youth in Child Welfare” – Dr. Bruce Perry, 2006
  • NTDC Training for Foster and Adoptive Parents – Spaulding, Children’s Bureau, DHHS
  • Profiles in Adoption – National Council for Adoption, 2023
  • 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.)
  • The School of Hope: The Journey From Trauma and Anxiety to Achievement, Happiness, and Resilience – Cathleen Beachboard, Corwin
  • 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
  • The Stages of Psychosocial Development – Erik Erikson
  • Supportive Relationships and Active Skill-Building Strengthen the Foundations of Resilience: Working Paper 13 – Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, 2015
  • Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI®) – Karyn Purvis Institute for Child Development
  • Untethered: Creating Connected Families, Schools, and Communities to Raise a Resilient Generation – Doug Bolton, Ph.D., Avery, 2025
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