New Mexico FIESTA Project: Book Club in Las Cruces focusing on The Connected Child....

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Book Club in Las Cruces focusing on The Connected Child....

For more information including times and location contact Amy Himelright, LPCC.
575-639-1323
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Deb said...: Is anyone in Albq going to create group to do this book together?; December 6, 2011 at 8:46 PM

Lending Library

We are excited to offer families a wide variety of adoption/foster care related books and videos. Scroll through the list below and choose what you would like to borrow. Email Melissa Romero at mgromero@la-familia-inc.org or call her at 505-766-9361 to submit your request. She will mail out your item within 3 business days.

These materials are written by many different authors with varying viewpoints and beliefs. This listing does not constitute an endorsement of any item. Please discuss any intervention with your therapist, physician or other professional.

"A Letter to Adoptive Parents on Open Adoption"
"Sensory Issues in Learning & Behavior" by Carol Kranowitz DVD
"Sensory Issues in Learning & Behavior" by Carol Kranowitz DVD
10 Things Adopted Teens Speak Out Kinship Center DVD
1001 Great Ideas for Teaching and Raising Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders by Ellen Notbohm & Veronica Zysk
35,000 + Baby Names
50 Nights of Family Fun
99 Ways to Drive Your Child Sane by Brita St. Clair
99 Ways to Drive Your Child Sane by Brita St. Clair (2 copies)
A Child's Journey through Placement by Vera I. Fahlberg, M.D.
A China Adoption Story
A Family for Leanne
A Family for Sammy by Kate Gaynor
A Kids Guide To African American History
A sensory World-DVD
A Terrible Thing Happened by Margaret M. Holmes
Aarvy Aardvark Finds Hope by Donna O'Toole
Accessing Federal Adoption Subsidies After Legalization by Tim O'Hanlon, Ph.D.
Adopted For Life, The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families & Churches~Moore
Adopted Teens Only, A survival Guide to Adolescence-Danea Gorbett
Adoptees Come of Age
Adopting on Your Own: The Complete Guide to Adopting as a Single Parent by Lee Varon
Adopting the Hurt Child
Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families with Special Needs Kids
Adopting, Choosing it, living it, loving it~Guarendi
Adoption & Ethics
Adoption & Ethics The Market forces in Adoption
Adoption & Ethics-Adoption & Assisted Reproduction
Adoption & Prenatal Alcohol and Drug Exposure
Adoption and Privatization an Issue Brief by Ann Sullivan CWLA
Adoption and the Family System
Adoption and the Family System
Adoption and the Family System
Adoption and the Schools
Adoption Life Book
Adoption Nation
Adoption Resources for Mental Health Professionals by Pamela V. Grabe
Adoptive and Foster Parent Screening by James L Dickerson and Mardi Allen
Adoptoin Healing~Joe Soll
Ages and Stages by Karen Miller
Aging Out What happens when you're too old for foster care a film by Roger Weisberg & Vanessa Roth
All Children Flourishing by Howard Glasser, M.A.
All the Colors of the Earth
An American Face
An American Family by Jon & Michael Galluccio
An Annotated Guide to Adoption Research by Deborah L. Martin
An Unlit Path by Deborah L. Hannah
Another Place at the Table by Kathy Harrison
Answer to Questions Teachers Ask about Sensory Integration~Jane Koomar, Carol Kranowitz, Stacey Szklut
Anthony's Surprise
Arnie and His School Tools Simple Sensory Solutions That Build Success by Jennifer Veenendall
Assessing Attachment Seperation and Loss by Linda Bayless & Lillie Love, Editor
At My House What Makes A Family Is Love
Attaching in Adoption
Attaching in Adoption by Deborah D. Gray
Attachment Disorganization by Judith Solomon /Carol George
Attachment Focused Family Therapy by Daniel A. Hughes
Attachment Focused Family Therapy Workbook~Daniel A. Hughes
Attachment Focused Parenting by Daniel A. Hughes
Attachment Theory in Clinical Work with Children by David Oppenheim & Douglas F. Goldsmith
Attachment, Trauma and Bonding
Attachment, Trauma, and Healing understanding and treating attachment disorder in children and families by Terry M. Levy/Michael Orlans (2 copies)
Beating the Adoption Odds
Becoming a Family
Becoming A Family by Lark Eshleman, Ph.D.
Becoming A Love & Logic Parent (dvd)
Becoming Attached: First Relationships and How They Shape our Capacity to Love
Beginnings How Families Come to Be by Virginia Kroll
Being Adopted
Being Adopted The lifelong Search for Self by David M. Brodzinsky, Ph.D, Marshall D. Schechter, M.D., Robin Marantz Henig
Below The Surface A self-assessment guide for anyone considering adoption across racial or cultural lines by Beth Hall & Gail Steinberg (12 copies)
Beneath the Mask Understanding Adopted Teens by Debbie Riley, M.S. with John Meeks, M.D.
Best of Pact Press
Beyond Consequences, Logic and Control
Beyond Consequences, Logic and Control by Heather Forbes and Bryan Post
Black Baby White Hands
Black Families Online
Black, White and Jewish
Broken Spirits: Lost Souls
Brothers and Sisters in Adoption by Arleta James
Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children
But, I Didn't Surrender My Love (Video) by Pat Schwiebert,RN
Butterflies in the wind
Can This Child Be Saved by Foster W. Cline, M.D. & Cathy Helding
Can't You Sit Still-Adoption & Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Celebrate! ADHD by Kirk & Anita Martin
Celebrate! ADHD by Kirk & Anita Martin
Child Welfare
Child Welfare
Children of Intercountry Adoptions in School
Children of Open Adoption
Children with Prenatal Alcohol and/or Other Drug Exposure by Susan B. Edelstein
Children with Prenatal Alcohol and/or Other Drug Exposure...Weighing the Risks of Adoption
Children with Prenatal Alcohol/or Other Drug Exposure
Circle of Support for RAD "What Can I Do to Help?" by Nancy L. Thomas(DVD)
Cliques, Phonies, & Other Baloney by Trevor Romain
Connecting with Kids through Stories
Connecting with Kids through Stories: Using Narratives to Facilitate Attachment in Adopted Children by Denise Lacher, Todd Nichols and Joanne May
Considering Parenthood by Cheri Pies
Counseling Lesbian Partners by Joretta L. Marshall
Creating Secure Attachments for Adopted Children (DVD) with Heather T. Forbes, LCSW and B. Bryan Post, PhD, LCSW
Culture Keeping by Heather Jacobson
Dandelion on My Pillow, Butcher Knife Beneath by Nancy Thomas, Terena Thomas, Beth Thomas
Dare to Discipline
Dear Birth Father
Dear Birthmother
Developing Attachment: Family Therapy Examples Part 1 with Dr. Daniel A. Hughes DVD
Developing Attachment: Family Therapy Examples Part 2 with Dr. Daniel A. Hughes DVD
Developing Attachment: Family Therapy Examples Part 3 with Dr. Daniel A. Hughes DVD
Developmental Issues for Children Adopted Internationally-vhs
Diagnosis, Assessment & Treatment of Foster and Adopted Children by Christopher J. Alexander, Ph.D.
Did my First Mother Love Me? A Story for an Adopted Child
Dim Sum, Bagels, and Grits for Multicultural Families by Myra Alperson
Dim, Sum, Bagels & Grits
Dim, Sum, Bagels & Grits
Does Anybody Else Look Like Me? A Parent's Guide to Raising Multicultural Children
Don't Touch My Heart Healing the Pain of An Unattached Child by Lynda Gianforte Mansfield foreword by Foster W. Cline, MD
Double-Dip Feelings
Dream Songs Night Songs from China to Senegal by Patrick Lacoursiere
E is for Ethiopia~Gudeta/Abate/Mulu/Boru
Eating Disorder for Dummies by Susan Shulherr, LCSW
El Cuidado de su hijo Pequeno
Embryo Donation & Adoption sharing the hope for building a family
Embryo Donation & Adoption Sharing the Hope for Building a family (video)
Facilitating Behavioral Change-dvd
Facing The Sunshine A Young Woman's Emergence from the shadows of sexual abuse and anorexia by Sara Jane Thornton Foreword by Beverly Engel
Family Bonds Adoption & the Politics of Parenting by Elizabeth Bartholet
Feathers & Fur
Finding Aster, Our Ethiopian Adoption Story~Dina McQueen
Finding the Righ Spot (When kids can't live with their parents) by Janice Levy
First Steps in Parenting the Child Who Hurts, Tiddlers & Toddlers~Caroline Archer
Forever Fingerprints (An amazing discovery for adopted children) by Sherrie Eldridge
Foster Parent Handbook
Fostering Changes
Fostering Changes Treating Attachment-Disordered Foster Children by Richard J. Delaney, Ph.D.
Fostering or Adopting the Troubled Child by Janet Clayton Glatz
From Chaos to Calm~Janet E. Heininger/Sharon K. Weiss
From Grief to Memories
Fundraising for Social Change by Kim Klein
Genetics
Getting Kids in Sync, fitness DVD by Carol S. Kranowitz
Getting Kids in Sync, fitness DVD by Carol S. Kranowitz
Getting Ready for Adoption
Getting Started on Adoption
Girls of Many Lands
Give Me A Break, Help for Exhausted Parents of Difficult Children (DVD) Featuring Nancy Thomas
Give Them Roots, Then Them Fly: Understanding Attachment Therapy by Carole A. McKelvey, M.A., Editor Foreword by Dr. Foster Cline
Going all the way Teenage girls' tales of sex, romance & pregnancy by Sharon Thompson
Going Home, A survival Toolkit for Parents~Bryan Post
Good Hair by Lonnice Brittenum Bonner
Goodnight Moon
Guide to Healthy Living for African Americans
Guji Guji
Hair Dance! by Dinah Johnson
Hair Story Untangling the roots of black hair in America by Ayana D. Byrd & Lori L. Tharps
Handbook of Attachment Interventions by Terry M. Levy
Having Your Baby Through Egg Donation
HBO Documentary-THIN DVD
Healing Parents
Healing Parents: Helping Children Learn to Trust and Love
Healing Research
Healing the Infertile Family
Healthy Start, Grow Smart
Healthy Touch
Help for Children with Disabilities
Her Last Death by Susanna Sonnenberg
Holding Time The breakthrough program for happy mothers and loving, self-confident children without tantrums, tugs-of-war, or sibling rivalry by Martha G. Welch, M.D.
How I Was Adopted by Joanna Cole
How To Make Adoption An Affordable Option
I Choose This Day
I don't want to go to Justin's House Anymore
I Love My Hair! by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
I Miss My Foster Parents
I'm Brown and My Sister Isn't
I'm Chocolate, You're Vanilla
I'm gonna Like Me, letting of a little self-esteem~Jamie Lee Curtis & Laura Cornell
In Their Own Voices Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories by Rita J. Simon/Rhonda M. Roorda
Infant Massage A Handbook for Loving Parents by Vimala Schneider McClure
Infant Massage The Power of Touch -dvd two copies
Infertility
Infertility-A Guide for Childless Couple
Inside Transracial Adoption
Insight into Adoption
Insight into adoption by Barbara Taylor Blomquist
International Adoption Workshop DVD with Joni S. Mantell, LCSW and Jane Aronson, MD
Is Adoptin for You by Christine Adamec & Jerri Ann Jenista, M.D.
Is Anyone in There? Adopting the Hurt Child ** DVD
Is That Your Sister
Is This You? by Ruth Krauss & Crockett Johnson
It's all Good Hair The guide to styling and grooming black children's hair by Michele N-K Collison
It's not about the weight by Susan J. Mendelsohn, Psy.D
Its Fine To Let You Know
Jorneys After Adoption
Journey of the Adopted Self A Quest for Wholeness by Betty Jean Lifton
Kids Need to be Safe
Kids Need to Be Safe (A book for children in foster care) by Julie Nelson
Kids Talk Hair An Instruction Book for Grown-ups & Kids by Pamela Ferrell
Kinship Care
Launching A Baby's Adoption by Patricia Irwin Johnston
Lesbian & Gay Parenting Handbook
Little Miss Lady Bug and her Magical Red..
Living with Racism by Joe R. Feagin /Melvin P. Sikes
Love & Logic Avoiding Power Struggles with Kids by Jim Fay & Foster W. Cline, M.D. (CD)
Love & Logic Becoming a Parent Parent Handbook by Jim Fay, Fosterw. Cline, M.D. and Charles Fay, Ph.D. (10 copies)
Love & Logic Four Steps to Responsibility by Jim Fay(CD)
Love & Logic Helicopters, Drill Sergeants, and Consultants Parenting styles by Jim Fay (CD)
Love & Logic Magic When Kids Leave You Speechless by Jim Fray & Charles Fay Ph.D.(CD)
Love & Logic The Life Saver Kit (CD) Jim Fay
Love is a Start The Real Challenges of Raising Children with Emotional Disorders by Donna Shilts
Love Me Enough to Set Some Limits by Jim Fay (CD)
Love Stories
Love You Forever
Lucy's Family Tree
Making Cultural Connections
Making Room in our Hearts
Making Sense of Adoption
Making the crooket straight dvd
Maybe Days
Maybe-Days
Mind-Body Workbook for PTSD by Stanley H. Block, MD & Carolyn Block
Mommy Far, Mommy Near
More, More, More Said the Baby
Multiple Transitions*** DVD
Murphy's Three Homes (a story for children in foster care) by Jan Levinson Gilman
My Adopted Child, There's No One Like You by Kevin Leman II
My Body is Private by Linda Walvoord Girard
My Lifebook Journal by Therese Accinelli, LMFT
Nappy Hair by Carolivia Herron
Natural Baby Care by Colleen K. Dodt
Natural Fertility
Never, Never, Never will she stop loving you
Never, Never, Never will she stop loving you
No Biking in the House without a helmet~Melissa Fay Greene
No Lye! The African-American Woman's Guide to Natural Hair Care by Tulani Kinard
No Such Thing As a Bad Kid (video) Charles Applestein, MSW 3copies
No Such Thing As a Bad Kid by Charles D. Appelstein,MSW
Not Yet Pregnant
Nursing your Adopted Baby
Nurturing Adoptions
Nurturing Adoptions
Of Many Colors
On the Day You were Born
One Small Boat by Kathy Harrison
One Wonderful You by Francie Portnoy
Open Adoption, A Caring Option
Openness in Adoption by Harold D. Grotevant and Ruth G. McRoy
OT In The Home "Helping kids be their best" with Britt Collins DVD
OT In The Home "Helping kids be their best" with Britt Collins DVD
Overcoming Trauma Through Yoga, Reclaiming your body~David Emerson/Elizabeth Hopper
Parenting a Child With Sensory Processing Disorder
Parenting Children with Health Issues by Foster W. Cline, MD & Lisa C. Greene
Parenting from the Inside Out by Daniel J. Siegel, MD.
Parenting the Hurt Child
Parenting with Love and Logic
Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child by Patty Cogen, M.A., Ed.D.
Parents at Last
Perfect Illusions: Eating disorders and the family DVD
Perspective on a Grafted Tree
Pieces of Me, Who do I want to be, voices for and by adopted Teens~Robert L. Ballard
Placing your Baby for Adoption
Planned & Crisis Respite for Families with Children
Planning and Conducting Needs Assessments A Practial Guide by Belle Ruth Witkin/James W. Altschuld
Playful Interaction Unlocking the Mysteries of Nuturing Human Relationships-DVD
Positive Discipline by Jane Nelsen, Ed. D.
Pregnancy Guide Beginning (1-6)
Pregnancy, Child Birth & the Newborn
Promoting Racial, Ethnic, Religious Understanding and Reconciliation
Pugnose has Two Special Families
Questions & Activities for the Star (a handbook for foster parents) by Cynthia Miller Lovell & Randell E. Haugen
Race Matters in Child Welfare
Raising Adopted Children by Lois Riskai Melina
Raising Adopted Children Practical, Reassuring Advice for Every Adoptive Parent by Lois Ruskai Melina
Raising Boys without Men by Peggy Drexler, PhD
Raising Shane by Kate Rosemary
Reaching Out
Reactive Attachment Disorder Handbook by Heather T. Forbes, LCSW
Real Parents, Real Children Parenting the Adopted Child by Jolly Van Gulden & Lisa M. Bartels-Rabb
Reclaiming Youth at Risk
Remembering Crystal~Sebastian Loth
Risk & Promise
Rush into English
Sad Isn't Bad
Saying goodbye to a baby a counselor's guide to birthparent loss and grief in adoption by Patricia Roles
Screamfree Parenting***AudioBook
Second Best (VHS) "a man who dreams of being a father, a boy disillusioned with life, a story of friendship, trust, and hope."
Sensory Integration-dvd
Sensory Strategies DVD by Paula Aquilla, B.Sc., OT
Sensory Strategies DVD by Paula Aquilla, B.Sc., OT
Sexualized Child
Sexualized Child: A Guide for Foster Parents and Other Professionals
Shaoey & Dot
Shaping Tomorrow's Children (DVD) presented by Beth & Nancy Thomas
Shared Fate by H. David Kirk
Siblings in Adoption and Foster Care by Deborah N. Silverstein and Susan Livingston Smith (Traumatic Separations & Honored Connections)
Small Feats
Snowflakes, A flurry of adoption stories~Theresa Kelleher/Katie Flake & Pul Kelleher-Smith
Starting Sensory Integration Therapy
Steps to Stability Moving Children to a New Home (Kinship Center DVD)
Storyland Yoga~playful planet
Straight Talk about Psychiatric Medications for Kids~Timothy E. Wilens
Supporting an Adoption
System Parenting An Exploration of Parenting Big Picture by Mark Gaskill, MFT
Talking to Young Children about Adoption
Talking with Young Children about Adoption by Mary Watkins and Susan Fisher
Taming the Tiger While It's a Kitten by Nancy Thomas (DVD)
Taming the Tiger While it's a kitten Intensive Care for Toddlers at Risk for RAD by Nancy L. Thomas
Tear Soup A Recipe for Healing after loss(dvd)by Pat Schwiebert & Chuck Deklyen
Tear Soup by Pat Schwiebert & Chuck DeKlyne
Tenderheaded by Juliette Harris and Pamela Johnson
The Adopted Child Grows Up, Coming Home to Self~Verrier
The Adoption Resource Book
The Adoption Resource Book by Lois Gilman
The Alchemy of Race & Rights
The Attachment Dance-DVD
The Attachment Dance-dvd
The Attachment Parenting Books
The Attachment Parenting Handbook
The Best Single Mom in the World by Mary Zisk
The Bipolar Child
The Bipolar Child by Demitri Papolos, M.D., and Janice Papolos
The Bipolar Teen by David J. Miklowitz, PhD and Elizabeth, L. George
The Black Candle-A Kwanza Celebration DVD
The Boy at the Window
The Broken Cord by Micheal Dorris
The Coffee-Can Kid
The Color of Water
The Color of Water by James McBride
The Complete Book of International Adoption
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Adoption by Chris Adamec
The Connected Child
The Connected Child
The Connected Child by Karyn B. Purvis, Ph.D., David R. Cross, Ph.D. and Wendy Lyons Sunshine
The eating disorder source book by Carolyn Costin
The Emotional Life of the Toddler by Alicia F. Lieberman, Ph.D.
The Essential Adoption Handbook by Colleen Alexander-Roberts
The Ethics of Transracial Adoption by Hawley Fogg-Davis
The Face in the Mirror
The Fall of Freddie the Leaf, A story of Life for all ages~Leo Buscaglia, Ph.D.
The Foster Care Crisis
The Great Behavior-B. Bryan Post
The Gus Chronicles by Charles D. Appelstein, MSW
The Gus Chronicles II by Charles D. Appelstein, MSW
The Healing Power of the Family
The Hope-Filled Parent written & Produced by Michael Trout DVD
The Impact of ASFA
The Inner Wealth Initiative-Tom Grove/Howard Glasser
The Intentional Family
The Intentional Family by William J. Doherty, PH.D.
The Jonathon Letters
The Jonathon Letters by Michael Trout & Lori Thomas
The Jonathon Letters by Michael Trout & Lori Thomas
The Jonathon Letters by Michael Trout & Lori Thomas Audio Book
The Lion's Whiskers
The Mulberry Bird by Anne Braff Brodzinsky, PhD
The Mystery of Risk, drugs, alcohol, pregnancy, and the vulnerable child~Ira J. Chasnoff, MD
The Neurochemistry of Fear-DVD
The Open Adoption Classic Dear Birthmother by Kathleen Silber & Phylis Speedlin
The Open Adoption Experience
The Out of Sync Child
The Penguin Adoption Handbook
The Permutations of Permanency Making Sensible Placement Decisions by Richard J. Delaney, Ph.D.
The Post Adoption Blues
The Primal Wond
The Promotion of Wellness In Children & Adolescents
The Pursuit of Pregnancy
The Red Thread (An adoption Fairy Tale) by Grace Lin
The Right Fit: Finding effective help for families with attachment challended children (DVD)
The Right Touch (A read aloud story to help prevent child sexual abuse) by Sandy Kleven, LCSW
The Secret of Me~Meg Kearney
The Sensory Processing Disorder
The Spirit of Open Adoption
The Star (A story to help young children understand foster care) by Cynthia Miller Lovell
The Star (A story to help young children understand foster care) by Cynthia Miller Lovell
The Things I want Most by Richard F. Miniter
The Visit
The Whole Life Adoption Book by Jayne E. Schooler & Thomas C. Atwood
The Whole Me written by Ellen K. Baron
Theory & Practice of Group Counseling
Thicker than Blood
Thicker Than Blood
Things Little Kids Need to Know
This is a Soul, The Mission of Rick Hodes~Marilyn Berger
This is How We became a Family
Three Little Words A Memoir by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Till There was You
Toddler Adoption: The Weaver's Craft
Touchpoints the essential reference by T.Berry Brazelton, M.D.
Transforming the Difficult Child (DVD) by Howard Glasser
Transforming the Difficult Child True Stories of Triumph by Jennifer Easley/Howard Glasser
Transforming the Difficult Child Workbook: An Interactive Guide to The Nutured Heart Approach by Howard Glasser, Joann Bowdidge, & Lisa Bravo
Transracial Adoption
Transracial Adoption and Foster Care by Joseph Crumbley
Trauma Through a Childs Eyes
Trauma, Attachment and Family Permanence~Caroline Archer
Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders~Christine A. Courtois/Julian D. Ford
Treating Traumatic Stress In Children and Adolescents, How to Foster Resilience through Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency~Margaret E. Blaustein/Kristine M. Kinniburgh
Tripping on the Color Line by Heather M. Dalmage
Troubled Transplants
Troubled Transplants by Richard Delaney, Ph.D/Frank R. Kunstal, Ed.D.
Walk a Mile in My Shoes
Walking The Tiger (Healing Trauma)
Water Bugs & Dragonflies, Explaining Death to Young Children~Doris Stickney
We belong together, A book about Adoption and Families~Todd Parr
Weaving a Family: Untangling Race and Adoption by Barbara Katz Rothman
Welcome Home by Christopher J. Alexander, Ph.D.
Welcome Home by Christopher J.Alexander, Ph.D.
Welcome Home Forever Child
What to expect the first year by Henry Harris
What works for bipolar kids, by Mani Pavuluri, MD, PhD
What's A Foster Family, Anyway? written by Martine Golden Inlay
Whatever Happened to Daddy's girl?
When Dinosaurs Die, A guide to Understanding Death~Laurie Krasny Brown & Marc Brown
When love is not enough Adopted-DVD by Barb Lee
When Love is Not Enough: Parenting Children with Reactive Attachment Disorder by Nancy L. Thomas (2 copies)
Where to Start and What to Ask by Susan Lukas
Who Am I
Who's size shoes does she wear? Adopting a Toddler
Whos Knees are These
Wise Up Power Book
Wise Up Power Book(workbook to help kids understand adoption)
Yoga for Depression and Anxiety DVD
You Are Brave by Todd Snow
You Are Important by Todd Snow Early Childhood book
You are Special you were chosen by Joanna Ferlan and Mary Fox Prather
Young Children and Trauma
Your Baby & Child by Penelope Leach
• Treating Traumatic Stress In Children and Adolescents, How to Foster Resilience through Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency~Margaret E. Blaustein/Kristine M. Kinniburgh



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