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Thriving families : a trauma-informed guidebook for the foster and adoptive journey / Jenn Ranter Hook, Joshua N. Hook, PhD.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Harrisonburg, Virginia : Herald Press, [2023]Description: 247 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781513810478
  • 1513810472
  • 9781513810485
  • 1513810480
Subject(s):
Contents:
Part I: Introduction and foundation -- Flip the script -- God's heart for families -- Self-awareness and informed expectations -- Part II: Knowledge -- Language matters -- Trauma and its impact -- Attachment -- Sensory processing difficulties -- Cultural and social adjustment -- Grief and loss -- Mental health problems and medical issues -- Part III: Tools and interventions -- Felt safety -- Connection -- Correction -- Emotional regulation -- Helping children find their voice -- Honoring a child's story -- Navigating relationships with birth families -- Thriving families -- Appendix: helpful resources.
Summary: "A practical roadmap for foster and adoptive families. Caring for children is deeply important to the heart of God, and adoption and foster care are important callings that connect to God's heart for children and families. But this road isn't always easy. It's important that foster and adoptive parents prepare to address their children's history of trauma, separation, and disrupted placements, which can lead to mental health, emotional, and behavioral difficulties. It is also important to understand how this journey shapes and influences our children. We cannot ignore the deep feelings and questions that children experience as they try to understand their story. How can we help them navigate their identity, and sit with them in the unknowns of their story or the grief and loss that comes up? Drawing on the latest science and research on trauma, attachment, sensory processing difficulties, cultural competence, and grief and loss, authors Josh and Jenn Hook provide a trauma-informed approach to help adoptive and foster families-and the church called to care for the vulnerable in our midst-to help their children heal, grow, and thrive"-- Provided by publisher.
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Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Parent/Teacher Resource Collection-Children's 248.845 H781 Available 33111011107006
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Parent/Teacher Resource Collection-Children's 248.845 H781 Available 33111011227762
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Caring for children is deeply important to the heart of God, and adoption 'and foster care are important callings that align with God's compassion for children and families. But this road isn't always easy. Foster and adoptive parents should prepare to address their children's history of trauma, separation, and disrupted placements, which can lead to mental health, emotional, and behavioral difficulties. We cannot ignore the deep feelings and questions that children experience as they try to understand their story. How can we help them navigate their identity and sit with them in the unknowns of their story and the grief and loss that may arise? Drawing on the latest science and research, authors Jenn Ranter Hook and Joshua N. Hook delve into important topics like trauma, attachment, sensory processing difficulties, cultural competence, and grief and loss. In Thriving Families, the Hooks provide a trauma-informed approach for adoptive and foster families-and the church called to care for the vulnerable in our midst-to help their children heal, grow, and thrive.

Includes bibliographical references.

"A practical roadmap for foster and adoptive families. Caring for children is deeply important to the heart of God, and adoption and foster care are important callings that connect to God's heart for children and families. But this road isn't always easy. It's important that foster and adoptive parents prepare to address their children's history of trauma, separation, and disrupted placements, which can lead to mental health, emotional, and behavioral difficulties. It is also important to understand how this journey shapes and influences our children. We cannot ignore the deep feelings and questions that children experience as they try to understand their story. How can we help them navigate their identity, and sit with them in the unknowns of their story or the grief and loss that comes up? Drawing on the latest science and research on trauma, attachment, sensory processing difficulties, cultural competence, and grief and loss, authors Josh and Jenn Hook provide a trauma-informed approach to help adoptive and foster families-and the church called to care for the vulnerable in our midst-to help their children heal, grow, and thrive"-- Provided by publisher.

Part I: Introduction and foundation -- Flip the script -- God's heart for families -- Self-awareness and informed expectations -- Part II: Knowledge -- Language matters -- Trauma and its impact -- Attachment -- Sensory processing difficulties -- Cultural and social adjustment -- Grief and loss -- Mental health problems and medical issues -- Part III: Tools and interventions -- Felt safety -- Connection -- Correction -- Emotional regulation -- Helping children find their voice -- Honoring a child's story -- Navigating relationships with birth families -- Thriving families -- Appendix: helpful resources.

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