Resources
We are here for families, friends, and professionals raising and caring for children with developmental trauma (RAD)! It’s the heart of Developmental Trauma Specialists to educate and equip families, friends, and professionals with the knowledge and tools they need to care for and help bring healing to their child(ren) with developmental trauma. If you are a parent of child with developmental trauma (also known as reactive attachment disorder), you are not alone! There are so many families just like yours! We are here for you! Please reach out to us! We WANT to help!
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Books for Adults Parenting Children with Childhood Trauma
The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel Van Der Kolk
(non-affiliate Amazon link)
The Primal Wound - Nancy Newton Verrier
(non-affiliate Amazon link)
What Happened to You - Bruce Perry, MD and Oprah Winfrey
The Untethered Soul - Michael Singer
Codependent No More - Melody Beattie
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew - Sherrie Eldridge
Internal Family Systems - Richard Schwartz and Frank Anderson
Internal Family Systems Therapy with Children - Lisa Speigel
The Connected Parent: Real-Life Strategies for Building Trust and Attachment - Karyn Purvis PhD and Lisa C. Qualls
Parenting with Love & Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility - Foster Cline and Jim Fay
How to Hug a Porcupine: Negotiating the Prickly Points of the Tween Years - Julia A. Ross, Pam Ward, and Tantor Audio
Women Who Hurt Themselves: A Book of Hope and Understanding - Dusty Miller
How Long Does it Hurt?: A Guide to Recovering from Incest and Sexual Abuse for Teenagers, their Friends, and their Families - Cynthia Mather and Kristina E. Debye, et al
Born for Love: Why Empathy is Essential and Endangered - Bruce Perry, Corey M. Snow, Maia Szalavitz, and Tantor Audio
Books for Kids Struggling with Childhood Trauma
The Invisible String - Patrice Karst and Joanne Lew-Vriethoff
When Sadness is at your Door - Eva Eland
Poppy and the Overactive Amygdala - Holly Rae Proven and Eric Provan
A Terrible Thing Happened: A Story for Children Who Have Witnessed Violence or Trauma - Margaret M. Holmes and Cary Pillo
My Dad Loves Me, My Dad Has a Disease: A Child’s View: Living with Addiction - Claudia Black