The “Do Your Homework” Adoption Booklist
Compiled by Leslie Pate Mackinnon, L.C.S.W.
PSYCHOLOGY OF ADOPTION
1) Toddler Adoption: The Weaver’s Craft, M.H. Best
2) Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search For Self; David Brodzinsky, Marshall Schecter
3) Children’s Adjustment To Adoption: Developmental & Clinical Issues, Broadinsky, Broadinsky & Smith
4) Adoption: The Facts, Feelings, and Issues of a Double Heritage; Jean DuPrati
5) Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew: A Guide for Helping Your Child Give Voice To Their Feelings, Sherrie Eldridge
6) Twenty Life Transforming Choices Adoptees Need To Make, Sherrie Eldridge
7) Shared Fate: A Theory and Method of Adoptive Relationships, David Kirk
8) Journey of the Adopted Self: A Quest for Wholeness; Betty Jean Lifton,
9) Making Sense of Adoption; Lois Ruskai Melina
10) Raising Adopted Children; Lois Ruskai Melina
11) The Family of Adoption; Joyce Maguire Pavao, PhD.
12) Beneath The Mask: Understanding Adopted Teens, D.B. Riley
13) The Adoption Life Cycle: The Children and Their Families Through the Years; Eleanor Rosenberg
14) Real Parents, Real Children; Holly van Gulden and Lisa Bartels-Rabb
15) Coming Home to Self: The Adopted Child Grows Up, Nancy Verrier
16) Primal Wound: Legacy of the Adopted Child; Nancy Verrier
ADOPTION REFORM
1) Adoption, Identity, and Kinship: The Debate Over Sealed Birth Records; Katerina Weger
2) Adoption Nation; How the Adoption Revolution Is Transforming America, Adam Pertman
3) Adoption Triangle: Sealed Or Open Records: How They Affect Adoptees, Birthparents & Adoptive Parents, Arthur Sorosky, M.D., Rueben Pannor, M.S.W., and Annette Baran, M.S.W.
4) Family Matters: Secrecy and Disclosure in the History of Adoption; E. Wayne Carp
OPEN ADOPTION
1) How To Open An Adoption: A Guide for Parents and Birth Parents of Minors, Patricia Dorner
2) Lifegivers: Framing the Birthparent Experience in Open Adoption; Jim Gritter
3) Openness In Adoption: Exploring Family Connections, Harold Grotevant, and Ruth McCoy
4) The Spirit of Open Adoption; Jim Gritter
5) The Open Adoption Experience: A Complete Guide for Adoptive Parents and Birth Families, Lois Melina & S.K. Roszia
6) Children of Open Adoption, K. Silber & P. M. Dorner
7) Arms Wide Open: An Insight Into Open Adoption, J. Waters
ATTACHMENT
1) Attaching In Adoption: Practical Tools For Today’s Parents, D.D. Gray
2) Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children, D.A. Hughes
3) Adopting the Hurt Child, G.C. Keck & R.M. Kupecky
4) Parenting the Hurt Child, G.C. Keck & R. M> Kupecky
5) Connecting With Kids Through Stories: Using Narratives to Facilitate Attachment in Adopted Children, D.B. Lacher & T. Nichols
6) Theraplay: Helping Parents & Children Build Better Relationships Through Attachment-based Play, A.M. Jernberg & P.B. Booth
7) Attachment, Trauma, & Healing: Understanding and Treating Attachment Disorder in Children & Families, Terry Levy & Michael Orlans
8) Theraplay: Innovations in Attachment-Enhancing lay Therapy, E. Munns
ADOPTED ADULTS
1) A Man and His Mother; An Adopted Son’s Search, Tim Green
2) Of Unknown Origin, Holtz, D.
3) Adoptees Come of Age, Nydam, R.
4) Ithaka, Saffian, S.
5) Searching For A Past, Schooler, J.
6) Beneath A Tall Tree, Jean Strauss
ADOPTIVE PARENTS
1) Talking To Your Child About Adoption, P.M. Dorner
2) The Long Awaited Stork: A Guide to Parenting After Infertility, Ellen Glazer
3) Be My Baby; Parents and Children Talk About Adoption, Gail Kinn
4) Love Like No Other: Stories from Adoptive Parents, Kruger & Smolove
5) Creating Cermonies: Innoavative Ways to Meet Adoption Challeges, Phoenix, Zeig, & Tucker
6) Adopting After Infertility, Patricia Irwin Johnston
7) Adoption Is A Family Affair: What Relatives & Friends Must Know. Patricia Irwin Johnston
8) Before I Met You; A Therapeutic Pre-Adoption Narrative Designed for Children Adopted from China, Doris Landry, M.S.
9) The Handbook for Single Adoptive Parents, Marindin, H.
10) Lifebooks: Creating a Treasure for the Adopted Child, O’Malley, B
.
11) Adoption Lifebook: A Bridge to Your Child’s Beginnings, Probst, C.
12) The Post Adoption Blues, Overcoming the Unforseen Challenges of Adoption, Thompson, & Foli.
13) Secret Thought of an Adoptive Mother, Wolff, J.
14) Adoption and the Schools: Resources for Parents and Teachers, Wood, L. & Ng, N.
BIRTH PARENTS
1) The Girls Who Went Away, The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children to Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade; Ann Fessler
2) May The Circle Be Unbroken, Lynn D. Franklin
3) Birth Fathers and Their Adoption Experiences, Jessica Kingsley
4) Out of the Shadows: Birthfather’s Stories; Marv Martin
5) The Other Mother, Carol Shaefer
INTERNATIONAL/TRANSRACIAL ADOPTION
1) I Wish For You A Beautiful Life: Letters from the Korean Birth Mothers of Ae Ron Won To Their Children, S. Darow
2) The Lost Daughters of China, Karin Evans
3) White Hands, Black Baby; The View From The Crib; Jaiya Johns, PhD.
4) The Book of Sarahs, Catherine McKinley
5) Does Anybody Else Look Like Me? A Parent’s Guide to Raising Multiracial Children, D.J. Nakazawa
6) Wuhu Diary: On Taking My Adopted Daughter Back to Her Hometown in China, E. Prager
7) In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories, R.J. Simon, & R.M. Roorda
8) Inside Transracial Adoption, G. Steinberg, & B. Hall
9) BirthMarks: Transracial Adoption In Contemporary America, Sandra Patton
10) The Language Of Blood, Jane Jeong Trenka
REUNIONS
1) The Adoption Reunion Survival Guide, Julie Bailey and Lynn Giddens
2) Courageous Blessings; Adoptive Parents & the Search; Carol Demuth, M.S.W.
3) Birthbond: Reunions Between Birth Parents and Adoptees: What HappeAfter; Judith Geddiman
4) The Adoption Reunion Handbook, Liz Trinder, Julia Feast, and
David Howe
5) Adoption Reunions: A Book For Adoptees, Birth Parents, and Adoptive Families, Michelle McColm
6) Ithaka: A Daughter’s Memoir of Being Found; Sarah Saffian
7) Birthright: The Guide To Search and Reunion For Adoptees, Birth-Parents, and Adoptive Parents, Jean Strauss
8) Adoption Reader: Birthmothers, Adoptive Mothers, & Adopted Daughters Tell Their Stories; Susan Wadia-Ellis
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
1) The Mulberry Bird, Broadinsky, A.B
2) Jin Woo, Bunting, E.
3) The Long Journey Home, Richard Delaney
4) Never, Never will She Stop Loving You, Durant
5) Adoption Is For Always, Linda Walvoord Girard
6) Mommy, Did I Grow In Your Tummy? Where Babies Come From, Gordon, E.R.
7) Where Are My Birth Parents? A Guide for Teenage Adoptees, Karen Gravelle and Susan Fischer
8) Adoption Stories for Young Children, Hicks, R.B.
9) How It Feels To Be Adopted, Krementz, J.
10) Beginnings: How Families Come To Be, Kroll, V.
11) Twice Upon A Time: Born and Adopted, Patterson, E.
12) Families Are Forever, Shemin, Shemin, & Capone.
13) What Is Adoption: Helping Non-Adopted Children Understand Adoption, Stergianis & McDowall.
SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO ADOPTION LITERATURE
1) Sacred Connections; Stories of Adoption, Mary Ann Koenig and Niki Berg
2) The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing & Coping with Sensory Integration Dysfunction, C.S. Kranowitz
3) Synchronicity and Reunion, LaVonne Harper Stiffler
4) The Secret Life of the Unborn Child, Thomas Verny, M.D.
5) Holding Time; Martha Welsh
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