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008			151112t20162016nyu b 000 0beng
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035			_a(OCoLC)929331698
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049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aBrooks, John, _d1956- _eauthor. _9296041
245	1	4	_aThe girl behind the door : _ba father's quest to understand his daughter's suicide / _cJohn Brooks.
250			_aFirst Scribner hardcover edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bScribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., _c2016.
264		4	_c�2016
300			_a216 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 213-216).
520			_a"An award-winning, candid, and compelling story of an adoptive father's search for the truth about his teenage daughter's suicide: "Rarely have the subjects of suicide, adoption, adolescence, and parenting been explored so openly and honestly" (John Bateson, Former Executive Director, Contra Costa Crisis Center, and author of The Final Leap: Suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge). Early one Tuesday morning John Brooks went to his teenage daughter's room to make sure she was getting up for school and found her room dark and "neater than usual." Casey was gone but he found a note: The car is parked at the Golden Gate Bridge. I'm sorry. Several hours later a security video was found that showed Casey stepping off the bridge. Brooks spent months after Casey's suicide trying to understand what led his seventeen-year-old daughter to take her life. He examines Casey's journey from her abandonment at birth in Poland, to the orphanage where she lived for the first fourteen months of her life, to her adoption and life with John and his wife Erika in Northern California. He reads. He talks to Casey's friends, teachers, doctors, therapists, and other parents. He consults adoption experts, researchers, clinicians, attachment therapists, and social workers. In The Girl Behind the Door, Brooks shares what he learned and asks "What did everyone miss? What could have been done differently?" He'd come to realize that Casey might have been helped if someone had recognized that she'd likely suffered an attachment disorder from her infancy--an affliction common among children who've been orphaned, neglected, and abused. This emotional deprivation in early childhood, from the lack of a secure attachment to a primary caregiver, can lead to a wide range of serious behavioral issues later in life. John's hope is that Casey's story, and what he discovered since her death, will help others. This important book is a wakeup call that parents, mental health professionals, and teens should read"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aBrooks, John, _d1956- _xFamily. _9296042
600	1	0	_aBrooks, Casey _xMental health. _9296043
650		0	_aSuicide _vBiography. _9296044
650		0	_aAdopted children _vBiography. _9214045
650		0	_aFathers and daughters _vBiography. _9272560
650		0	_aAttachment disorder in adolescence. _9296045
650		0	_aAdopted children _xFamily relationships. _935440
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