Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma

The second section is putting it all together.  This is section that talks about what people in the mental health field can do to help. This includes parents, teachers, therapists, doctors, caseworkers, etc.  What makes this book so wonderful is that it doesn’t leave anything out. It gives you lots of information in the first section, then goes into exactly what you can do to help these children, depending on what role you are playing in their lives.

This book would be great to have on your shelf to reference again and again for parents who have adopted, and for anyone who is in the mental health field; in fact, I think that this would be a great textbook to use in a college classroom for a class regarding this subject. 

Some of the things that stood out for me in this book was how there are lots of headings.  Instead of pages of words, Deborah D. Gray does a great job at spacing it out into headings.  I think this makes the reader willing to read more and not get bored.  Also, she has a nice assortment of graphs and charts that really help to spell out the points she is trying to make. 

Lastly, I think that using actual cases as an example of some of the things she is teaching us is very valuable. It helps the reader to see exactly what it is she is talking about. This book is a great tool to use and I recommend it to everyone who may ever encounter children who have been through the horrors of neglect and trauma.