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Resources and information to help adoptive parents build strong family bonds.

10 Tips After Your Older Child Is Home

Suggestions from adoptive parent Susan M. Ward to help during the adjustment period after coming home with your older child. For prospective parents, ideas on how to prepare.... [more]

Bonding Through Touch: Infant Massage for Adoptive Families

This video teaches parents how to massage their infants and children with a loving touch. Massage promotes attachment and bonding to the child by reinforcing gentle, close, loving contact between parents, siblings, and the new child. It was produced by Three Hearts, LLC.... [more]

Family Bonding Books

Books with specific tools to promote bonding and inclusiveness such as lifebooks and ceremony planners.... [more]

How to Help Your Child Build Attachment

How parents can help adopted and foster children develop healthy feelings of attachment and bonding.... [more]

Transition from Orphanage to Home

You have been preparing for this moment for months - perhaps years, but for your child, the move from an institutional setting to family life is confusing, and will be very different from life in an orphanage.... [more]

Build Attachment Through The Senses
Author Pat Johnston views babies' sensory awareness as a way to build attachment in the new adoptive family.

"Claiming"
Crucial to building attachment in adoptive families, claiming is an important part of the bonding process, and the second item in this article by adoptive parent Carol GIndi.

Creating a Strong Adoptive Family Unit
Strengthening the adoptive family through openness on issues of loss and belonging.

How To Increase Attachment
Seven "do-able" techniques for adoptive parents to strengthen attachment bonds, by Deborah Silverstein.

Resilient Adoptive Families
Focusing on the strengths of all members of the adoptive family — birth parents, adoptive parents and adoptees — to build a healthy family unit, by Dee Paddock, M.A., NCC.

Theraplay Helps Form Attachment
Theraplay with parents and their post-institutionalized Romanian children fosters a greater bonding.

"When Adopted Toddlers Reject Their Parents"
Educator Mary Hopkins-Best looks at why and how rejection happens, and offers strategies to deal with it.

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