Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma
Deborah D. Gray
Perspectives Press, Inc.
ISBN: 978-0-744934-33-3
Non-Fiction, Parenting, Adoption
Reviewed by Vianna Renaud

In this new book author Deborah D. Gray leads on from her previous release Attaching in Adoption: Practical Strategies for Parents and Professionals. Offering specific guidance for the complex procedure of adoptions, aimed towards a variety of profession, you will gain new and additional tools for your professional toolbox. With so many challenges taking place along the path of adoption, this book will explore the multitude of changes that can take place when children are adopted from multiple foster care placements, institutional care, at older ages, and after experiences of neglect and trauma. 

In the book, Ms. Gray will cover issues such as identifying and treating problems in traumatized children, assessing and preparing families for adoption, matching children with families, making careful moves in transitioning children, helping children and parents to understand difficult pasts and prepare for a healthier future, understanding and
implementing the separate but equally important roles of the professionals involved in adoptive placements, and building professional practices networked for support and enhanced professional continuing education.

Using practical cases and examples to further illustrate her ideas, coupled with her extensive personal experience in working with foster and adoptive families, Ms. Gray has given us a resource book that is truly exceptional. The additional resources such as the glossary of terms listed in the back of the book and a comprehensive list of organizations to contact for further information, coupled with example checklists and exercises for parents and families only add to the importance of this book in the field. Therefore I would highly recommend it for everyone looking to learn more about this complex area and look forward to the next excellent resource Ms. Gray gives us.