The list below includes books/dvds relating to Foster Care/Adoption. If you are interested in checking out any of this material, it is “housed” at Montgomery County Department of Social Services.
Books
360 Degree Feed Back |
A Forever Family |
A Future Near Me |
A Man Named Dave |
A Parent and Teacher’s Handbook On Child Abuse |
Abused Boys: The Neglected Victims of Sexual Abuse |
A.D.D. not B.A.D. |
Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families with Special-Needs Kids (2) |
Adopting the Older Child |
Adventures in Parenting |
Adoption Digest – Stories of Joy, Loss, and the Journey |
Adoption Reader |
After Adoption-The Needs of Adopted Youth |
American Sign Language Dictionary |
As for Me & My House |
Attachment and Bonding (2) |
Beating the Adoption Game |
Behavior Based Interviewing |
Being Adopted |
Black Baby: White Hands |
Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found |
Bobbie’s Story: A Feelings Workbook |
Bodily Harm: Breakthrough Healing Program for Self-Injurers |
Building Solutions in Child Protective Services |
Burnout Among Social Workers |
Case for Bureaucracy (The) |
Changing the Delinquent |
Complete Idiot’s Guide to Adoption |
Control the Chaos |
Culture Shift |
Did My First Mother Love Me? |
Divorced but Still My Parents |
Do I Have A Daddy? |
DSM-IV Made Easy |
DSM-IV Training Guide |
Encouraging the Heart |
Every Child Deserves a Champion |
Explosive Child |
Family Visiting in Out-of-Home Care |
Finding My Way |
FISH |
Five Love Languages |
Foster Parenting Abused Children |
From Emotions to Advocacy |
From Fear to Love |
Going to court |
Go To Your Room |
Gung Ho! |
Gus Chronicles: Reflections from an Abused Kid |
Handbook of Clinical Intervention in Child Sexual Abuse |
Happy Adoption Day |
Have a New Kid By Friday |
Healing Power of Family: Overview of Life with Disturbed Foster/Adoptive Child |
Healing Power of Play: Working with Abused Children |
Helping in Child Protective Services (2) |
How I Was Adopted (2) |
How to Work With Your Court: A guide for Child Welfare Agency Administration |
I can do it! (2) |
I Miss My Foster Parents |
I Miss You: A First Look at Death |
I Speak for This Child: True Stories of a Child Advocate |
I’d Rather Be With a Real Mom Who Loves Me |
I’m chocolate, You’re Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and Biracial Children |
I’m Not Your Friend, I’m Your Parent |
Jonathan Letters: One Family’s Use of Support as They Took in, and Fell in Love with, a Troubled Child |
Journal of Interpersonal Violence |
Keys To Parenting An Adopted Child |
Kissing Hand (2) |
Leadership |
Learning Disabilities: IEP guide NOLOS |
Life of a Bipolar Child: What Every Parent and Professional Needs to Know |
Little Book of Parenting (The) |
Making Cultural Connections |
Making Reasonable Efforts |
Mars Pathfinder (The) |
Maybe Days: A Book for Children in Foster Care & Questions & Activities Book |
Monday Morning Leadership |
Mulberry Bird |
My Body is Private |
My Family is Forever |
My Mom Has a Bad Temper |
Never, Never, Never Will She Stop Loving You |
New Hope for Children and Teens with Bipolar Disorder |
One Minute Apology (The) |
Outgrowing the Pain: Book For and About Adults Abused as Children |
Out-of-Sync Child |
Parenting Teens with Love and Logic |
Parents Guide to Tantrums |
Parents Handbook: Systematic Training for Effective Parenting (The) |
Power Parenting for Children with ADD/ADHD |
Practical Tools for Foster Parents |
Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child |
Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teens Safe (and Parents Sane) |
Psychologically Battered Child (The) |
Raising Adopted Children: Practical Advice for Every Adoptive Parent |
Raising Cain: Caring for Troubled Youngsters/Repairing Our Troubled System (3) |
Raving Fans |
Recognizing Child Abuse |
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (The) |
Signs of Safety |
Social Skills Lessons and Activities |
Somebody Else’s Children |
Son-Up, Son-Down (2) |
Special Education Law |
Star: A Story to Help Young Children Understand Foster Care (The) |
Start Right, Stay Right, Lead Right |
Still Waters (autobiography by former foster youth) |
Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice (The) |
Success as a Foster Parent |
Taking Charge of ADHD |
Tear Soup (children’s book about loss) |
Teenagers with ADD |
Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child |
Theories of Social Work With Groups |
There is Only One You |
Things I Wish I’d Known Sooner…Personal Discoveries of a Mother of Twelve |
To Love a Child: Ways to Share Your Life with Children(Adoption/Fostering) |
Toddler Adoption |
Three Little Words: A Memoir |
Treating Sexually Abused Children and their Families |
Trying Hard is Not Good Enough |
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew |
Visit (child’s book about going to visitation) |
Walk Awhile In My Shoes |
We’re Not Monsters: Teens Speak Out About Teens in Trouble |
Whale Done |
What Color is Your Parachute? |
What Kids Need Most in a Mom |
What Your Explosive Child Is Trying to Tell You |
What’s Wrong with Timmy? (2) |
When a Stranger Calls You Mom |
When Dinosaurs Die: A Guide to Understanding Loss |
When Someone Dies |
When Your Child Has Been Molested: A Parent’s Guide to Healing & Recovery |
Whole Life Adoption Book (The) |
Why Was I Adopted? |
Win or Lose? You Choose |
Working Successfully With Screwed Up People |
“Yes” or “No” |
Yes, Your Teen is Crazy: Loving Your Kid without Losing Your Mind |
Yo! Let’s eat: A cookbook for teenagers with recipes from teenagers |
Your Anxious Child |
Zachary’s New Home – A Story for Foster and Adopted Children |
DVDs |
Internet Safety |
Household Management (4) |
Money Management (4) |
Unlock Your Brains Potential |
***Disclaimer: This program has not previewed every resource on this list, and we are not in agreement with all information. However, we want to make resources available whenever possible.