Non-return Items

AD-HD in Adulthood and College
This packet contains articles reprinted with permission from the CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) website. Included are such titles as "Time Management," "Managing Medication for Adults …," "Managing Money," "Succeeding in the Workplace," "Succeeding in College," "Social Skills in Adults …," “Women and AD/HD,” etc.

Oregon's Legal Guide for Grandparents and Other Relatives Raising Children – 2008
The first half of this booklet helps caregivers understand their legal rights in a number of situations. The second half offers practical suggestions for dealing with such things as school registration, medical insurance, financial assistance (food stamps, SSI, respite care, etc.), housing considerations, violence in the family, etc., and a list of resources.

Books for Parents

Asperger's and Girls
This book provides up-to-date information about girls and women with Asperger's Syndrome. Covering topics such as diagnoses, education, puberty, relationships, and careers; experts in the field share practical advice for both caregivers and the women and girls who are affected by Asperger's. Other chapters are written by women who have been diagnosed with ASD.

The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
Through these accounts of experiences working with traumatized children, child psychiatrist Perry shows readers how early-life stress and violence affects the developing brain. Recovery requires that the patient be "in charge of key aspects of the therapeutic interaction." He says "lasting, caring connections to others" are irreplaceable in healing; medications and therapy alone cannot do the job. "Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love."

Damaged Angels: An Adoptive Mother Discovers the Tragic Toll of Alcohol in Pregnancy
Part heartfelt memoir, part practical guide, Damaged Angels recounts Bonnie Buxton's struggles to raise an adopted daughter whom she didn't realize was afflicted with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. This book offers guidance to parents who have children with FASD and can aid and comfort all those affected by it. Foreword by Sterling Clarren, M.D.

The English American
When Pippa Dunn, adopted as an infant and raised “terribly British,” discovers that her birth parents are from the American South, she finds that “culture clash” has layers of meaning she’d never imagined. This funny, poignant debut novel sprung from stand-up comic and British stage regular, Larkin’s semi-autobiographical and highly acclaimed one-woman show of the same title.

Gift Children: A Story of Race, Family, and Adoption in a Divided America
In 1970 Doug and Gloria Bates of Eugene, OR adopted a four-year-old black girl as a sister to their two biological white sons. Two years later, they adopted another black girl. The 23 year interracial journey that ensued is a story that helps illuminate race relations in America today while depicting both the harsh difficulties and the heartwarming rewards that followed.

The Grief Recovery Handbook: The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death Divorce, and Other Losses
This book, for those who are grieving any kind of loss, offers a gentle action plan and provides direction during a difficult, confusing and often disorienting time. It is divided into three parts, “Seeing the Problem,” “Preparing for Change: Starting to Recover,” and “Finding the Solution.”

Letting Go of Anger: The Eleven Most Common Anger Styles and What to Do About Them
Revised from the 1996 edition, this “Second Edition" identifies eleven of the most common ways people express their anger and offers methods for changing them. It gives an in-depth description of these types of anger, where they come from, and how to identify them. The helpful techniques they describe are for anyone who wants to learn to express anger in healthy and productive ways.

A Love Like No Other: Stories from Adoptive Parents
Twenty leading writers, all adoptive parents, offer evocative, sometimes provocative, personal essays that have the liveliness and immediacy of prose fiction. Categorized in four sections, “Reflections on Birth Parents;” “Encounters with the unexpected;” “Variations on Family;” and “Personal Transformations,” these essays reflect the diversity of adoption in America.

Raising a Moody Child: How to Cope with Depression and Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar illness and depression can derail a child’s normal development at any age. With sage advice to parents (and kids) that “it’s not your fault, but it’s your challenge,” the authors provide a roadmap and a toolkit of strategies for families facing these complicated, heritable, and treatable medical disorders.

Supernanny: How to Get the Best from Your Children
This book, from TV's Supernanny, is divided into action-oriented problem and solution sections. It shows parents how to restore harmony and authority in the home using the Supernanny's ten basic rules for setting boundaries, managing mealtimes, even surviving toilet training, and her effective, no-nonsense approach to problem-solving.

Swimming Up the Sun: A Memoir of Adoption
As an adoptive child in Britain, playwright Nicole Burton always wanted to find her birth parents. After moving with her adoptive family to the United States, she pursued the elusive characters haunting her imagination. At age 22, she set out to find her English birth parents, and began a search that led to parents, grandparents, siblings, a kaleidoscope of relationships with one dark secret at its center, and more drama than any play she could possibly conceive.

When Anger Hurts: Quieting the Storm Within (Second Edition)
This book – about anger in adults, not anger in children – is designed to help readers understand the nature, causes, and costs of anger. It offers skills and techniques that can be developed to help reduce the intensity and effects of anger. Chapters dealing with specific areas “Road Rage,” “Anger and Children,” address circumstances that can be problematic for some adults.

DVDs

Asperger Syndrome: Living Outside the Bell Curve
This DVD looks at Asperger students in general and focuses on 12-year-old Andrew. Dr. Tina Iyama, M.D., U of Wisconsin Children's Hospital, explains causes, symptoms, and strategies for coping with Asperger Syndrome. Andrew shows that with appropriate supports it's possible to flourish outside the accepted social and educational bell curve.

Lying: Foster Parent College training for adoptive, kinship, and foster parents
According to the jacket, lying is the single most common child behavior problem reported by foster parents. Parents learn to understand and deal with this frustrating problem by looking at four types of lying behavior: lying to save face, lying to gain attention, pathological lying, and lying to get others in trouble. Written and researched by Dr. Richard Delaney.
Includes: 1 Interactive DVD, Viewer Guide and reproducible questionnaire

R.A.D. Reactive Attachment Disorder: Foster Parent College training for adoptive, kinship, and foster parents
In this course, Dr. Richard Delaney explores the symptoms and types of RAD with a parent support group and offers strategies for dealing with the complex and challenging disorder. Topics covered include the difference between a healthy attachment - where children feel safe, secure and loved - and an unhealthy attachment; emotionally promiscuous RAD; hyper-vigilant RAD; and RAD and other diagnoses.
Includes: 1 Interactive DVD, Viewer Guide, and reproducible handouts and questionnaire

Raising Resilient Rascals 2008: Disk 1
This disk includes the following presentations from the 2008 conference: “The Nature and Nurture of the Brain” with Julian Davies; “The Dichotomy of Foster Care Adoption” with Paulette Caswell; and “Raising Resilient Rascals in a Raging Rambunctious World” – on sensory processing – with Stephen T. Glass.

Raising Resilient Rascals 2008: Disk 2
This disk includes the following presentations from the 2008 conference: “What Can Orphans Tell Us about the Family’s Role in Promoting Child Well-Being? The Bucharest Early Intervention Study;” with Dana Johnson; “Why Does My Child Go Ballistic?” with Gwen Lewis; and a Question/Answer Panel with Presenters.

Raising Resilient Rascals 2008: Disk 3
This disk includes the following presentations from the 2008 conference: “Interventions for the Fetal Alcohol Spectrum” with Julia Bledsoe; “Psychiatric Medication Treatments and Their Place in Adoption Medicine” with Margaret Cashman; and a Sleep Discussion & Panel led by Margaret Cashman.

Raising Resilient Rascals 2008: Disk 4
This disk includes the following presentations from the 2008 conference: “Safe Now! Five Faves for Families Helping Anxious Children” with Deborah Gray; “Om a Little Teapot: techniques for Relaxation and Self-regulation” with Julian Davies; and a Cases Panel with Deborah Gray, Juliia Bledsoe, Cynthia Kertesz and others.

Children and Adolescents

All About Adoption: How to deal with questions of your past
Adopted teens may be in a unique situation, but Lanchon, without trivializing it, assures them, "When all is said and done, you're no weirder than anyone else. You're adopted, your friends aren't, so what?" Written in an informal, conversational style, this illustrated guide covers an adopted child's traditional worries and concerns, such as establishing identity and living with overprotective parents.

Get Real
In this adolescent novel, 13-year-old best friends Dez and Jil are each a little envious of the other’s parents – Dez’s parents run a sloppy, chaotic household while the adopted Jil’s keep a neat, orderly one. Jil becomes obsessed with meeting her birth mother and does so, eventually spending holidays and weekends with her new family which includes a 10-year-old half sister. Problems ensue, lessons are learned, and life is lived.

Henry The Hermit Crab: A Storybook-Workbook for Children With Attachment Issues
This illustrated booklet, preceded by a “Preface for Parents and Professionals” and followed by a "Workbook" to help kids create their own stories, tells of Henry, a hermit crab whose birth parents are unable to care for him, and how he withdraws into a series of shells to protect himself from the pain of abandonment. He eventually meets a family who can care for him and life gets better.

How I Became a Big Brother: An Adoption Story
This is a simple adoption story told from the standpoint of a little boy whose biological parents decide to bring another child into the home through adoption. They prepare him for welcoming his new brother, and despite some early apprehension, he enthusiastically welcomes this newcomer into his family.

What's the Big Secret?: Talking about Sex with Girls and Boys
With chapters entitled "How Do Boys and Girls Differ?"; "More About Girls' and Boys' Bodies"; and "Why Boys and Girls Differ: A Little Lesson in Reproduction," this children's book (pre-school-grade 3) with anatomically correct cartoon illustrations is intended to help parents talk about "where babies come from" in an enlightened way.

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