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Unfortunately, it is the mom's job to research all that the scant amount of professionals have to offer on our childrens' problems and then move forward with what we feel is best for our kids. Some of the books actually contradict one another but it is for you to discern what is best. That is just the way it is right now.

These are what I used to help me learn how to parent my son.

Cline, Foster/Fay, Jimr" Love and Logic book". Also see "Parenting Teens with Love and Logic" and "Love and Logic Magic for Early Childhood: Practical Parenting from Birth to Six Years"

Forbes, Heather "Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control: A Love-Based Approach to Helping Attachment-Challenged Children With Severe Behavior"

Hage, Deborah"Therapeutic Parenting - It's a Matter of Attitude"  Deborah offers many ideas to help you help your child.

Hughes, Daniel  "Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children"

Hughes, Daniel   "Facilitating Developmental Attachment in Foster and Adopted Children"

Hughes, Daniel  "Principles of Attachment-Focused Parenting: Effective Strategies to Care for Children"

Keck, Gregory/Kupecky, Regina "Parenting the Hurt Child"

Levy, Terry/Orlans, Michael "Healing Parents: Helping Wounded Children Learn to Trust & Love

Thomas, Nancy' "When Love is Not Enough"  Nancy gives specific strategies to blend structure and nurture in her therapeutic parenting.

MORE BOOKS ON ATTACHMENT DISORDER

Becker-Weidman, Arthur "Creating Capacity for Attachment: Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Trauma-Attachment Disorders"

Boeding, Conrad  "The Love Disorder"

Bowlby, John "A Secure Base: Parent-Child Attachment and Healthy Human Development"

Bowlby, John "Attachment: Second Edition"

Bowlby, John "Loss: Sadness And Depression"

Cline, Foster "Conscienceless Acts, Societal Mayhem"

Cline, Foster "Grand parenting with Love and Logic"

Cline, Foster "Hope for High Risk Children: Reactive Attachment Disorder, Theory and Intrusive Therapy"

Cline/Helding "Can This Child Be Saved? Solutions for Adoptive and Foster Families"

Cline/Helding "Adopted and Foster Child Assessment"

Delaney, Richard "Fostering Change"

Delaney, Richard "The Healing Power of the Family: An Illustrated Overview of Life with the Troubled Foster or Adopted Child"

Delaney/McNerney "The Long Journey Home"

Fahlberg, Vera "A Child's Journey Through Placement""

Gianforte Mansfield/Waldmann "Don't Touch My Heart"

Gray, Deborah "Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents"

Hughes, Daniel "Attachment-Focused Family Therapy"

Karr-Mores/Wiley "Ghosts from the Nursery"

Keck/Kupecky "Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families with Special Needs Kids"

Levy, Terry "Attachment Interventions"

Levy/Orlans "Attachment, Trauma and Healing: Therapy for Children and Families"

Magid/McKelvey "High Risk: Children Without a Conscience"

O'Hanlon, Tim/Laws "Adoption and Financial Assistance: Tools for Navigating the Bureaucracy"

O'Hanlon, Tim "Adoption Subsidy: A Guide for Adoptive Parents"

O'Hanlon, Tim "Accessing Federal Adoption Subsidies After Legalization"

Perry, Bruce " The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing

Randolph, Liz "Children Who Shock and Surprise"

Randolph, Liz "Broken Hearts, Wounded Minds: The Psychological Functioning of Severely Traumatized and Behavior Problem Children"

Schore, Allan "Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self: The Neurobiology of Emotional Development"

Schore, Allan "Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self"

Schore, Allan "Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self"

Siegel, Daniel "Parenting From the Inside Out"

Siegel, Daniel "The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being"

Siegel, Daniel "The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are"

Stock Kranowitz, Carol "The Out of Sync Child"  - Sensory Integration Disorder Information

Trout, Michael/ Thomas, Lori "The Jonathon Letters: One Family's Use of Support as They Took in, and Fell in Love with, a Troubled Child"

Verny, Thomas "The Secret Life of the Unborn Child"

Verrier, Nancy "The Primal Wound"

Welch, Martha "Holding Time"

Wesselmann, Debra "How to Become a Terrific Parent Even if You Didn't Have One"