Frameworks Resource Library
A variety of books, periodicals and articles are available for loan. Three books may be “checked out” at one time. (Photocopied copies of articles and other publications will be provided and will not count toward your borrowing limit. )
Books are due back three weeks from the date of being mailed or given to recipient. A pre-addressed mailing envelope will be provided. Materials should be returned via 1st class mail. If books are not returned within one month , the borrowing party will be responsible for the replacement costs.
Lists of library materials are available by handout or on our website. Requests may be made by phone (1-866-CALL-MWV/304-562-0723) or by email (rprobst@missionwv.org).
Requests may be made for materials which are not currently available through the
resource library. Materials will be purchased based on funding availability and
relevance of topic.
Getting Started/Considering Adoption
HomeBuilders: Considering Adoption: Study Guide
Welcome Home: Eight Steps to Adoption:
General Foster Care/Adoption
Parenting Someone Else’s Child: The Foster Parents’ How-To Manual
by Ann Stressman
Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child: Making Sense of the Past by Betsy Keefer and Jayne E Schooler
To Love a Child: A Complete Guide to Adoption, Foster Parenting, and Other Ways to Share Your Love with Children
The Whole Life Adoption Book: Realistic Advice for Building a Healthy Adoptive Family by Jayne E Schooler
The Post-Adoption Blues: Overcoming the Unforseen Challenges of Adoption by Karen J Foli, PhD and John R Thompson
Together Again: Family Reunification in Foster Care
Toddler Adoption: The Weaver’s Craft by Mary Hopkins-Best
The Ultimate Insider's Guide to Adoption: Everything You Need to Know About Domestic and International Adoption by Elizabeth Swire Falker
Talking with Young Children about Adoption by Mary Watkins Susan Fisher
Our Own: Adopting and Parenting the Older Child
Beneath the Mask: Understanding Adopted Teens by Debbie Riley M.S. and John Meeks, M.D
Our Own: Adopting and Parenting the Older Child by Trish Maskew
Adoption and the Americans with Disabilities Act: An Issue Brief: The Evan B Donaldson Adoption Institute
Lesbian and Gay Fostering and Adoption: Extraordinary yet Ordinary
by Stephen Hicks and Janet McDermott
Kinship Care/ Grandparents as Parents
Ticklebelly Hill: Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
Child Custody Made Simple: Understanding the Laws of Child Custody and Child Support by Webster Watnik
Grandparents as Parents: A Survival Guide for Raising a Second Family Sylvia de Toledo and Deborah Edler Brown
Raising our Children’s Children Deborah Doucette-Dudman
Grandparents’ Rights Traci Truly
Pilgrim Prayers for Grandmothers Raising Grandchildren Linda H Hollies
Grandparents’ Rights: What Every Grandparent Needs to Know Patricia Perkins Slorah, PdD
Relatives Raising Children: An Overview of Kinship Care
Attachment and Bonding
Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families with Special Needs Kids Gregory Keck and Regina Kupecky
Attachment, Trauma and Healing: Understanding and Treating Attachment Disorder in Children and Families Terry Levy and Michael Orlans
Helping Children Cope with Separation and Loss Claudia Jewett Jarratt
Facilitating Developmental Attachment: The Road to Emotional Recovery and Behavioral Change in Foster and Adopted Children
Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today’s Parents Deborah D Gray
Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resiliense after Negelct and Trauma
Deborah D Gray
Parenting the Hurt Child: Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow Gregory Keck and Regina M. Kupecky
Theraplay: Helping Parents and Children Build Better Relationships Through Attachment-Based Play Ann M. Jernberg Phyllis B. Booth
Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children Daniel A. Hughes
The Connected Child: Bring hope and healing to your adoptive family Karyn B. Purvis, PhD, David R. Cross, PhD and Wendy Lyons Sunshine
Mental Health/Special Needs
Lonely, Sad and Angry: How to Help Your Unhappy Child Barbara D Ingersoll, PhD and Sam Goldstein, PhD
ADHD A Complete and Authoritative Guide/ American Academy of Pediatrics
Parenting Children with ADHD: 10 Lessons that Medicine Cannot Teach Vincent J Monastra, PhD
Treating the Aftermath of Sexual Abuse: A Handbook for Working with Children in Care Margaret Osmond, Duane Durham, Andrew Leggett and John Keating
The Out-of Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder Carol Stock Kranowitz, M.A.g
Parenting Children with ADHD: 10 Lessons that Medicine Cannot Teach Vincent J Monastra, PhD
Learning Disabilities A to Z: A Parent’s Guide Complete Guide to Learning Disabilities from Preschool to Adulthood Corrine Smith PhD and Lisa Strick
From Emotions to Advocacy: The Special Education Survival Guide Pam Wright and Pete Wright
The Bipolar Child: The Definitive and Reassuring Guide to Childhood’s Most Misunderstood Disorder Demitri Md Papolos and Janice Papolos
The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children Ross W. Greene
Childhood Speech, Language & Listening Problems: What Every Parent Should Know Patricia McAleer Hamaguchi
The Sexualized Child in Foster Care: A Guide for Foster Parents and Other Professionals
The Adoptive Family as a Healing Resource for the Sexually Abused Child: A Training Manual Deborah H. Minshew and Crisan Hooper
Helping Your Anxious Child: A Step-By-Step Guide for Parents Sue Spence
Recognizing and Managing Children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/Fetal Alcohol Effects: A Guidebook Brenda McCreight
Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Complete Guide to Understanding Autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, Pervasive Developmental Disorder and Other ASDs Chantal Sicile-Kira
From Chaos to Calm: Effective Parenting of Challenging Children with ADHD and Other Behavior Problems
Janet E. Heininger, Ph.D. and Sharon K. Weiss, M.Ed.
The Defiant Child: A Parent’s Guide to Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Dr Douglas A. Riley
A Parent’s Guide to Developmental Delays: Recognizing and Coping with Missed Milestones in Speech, Movement, Learning and Other Areas
Laurie LeComer, M. Ed.
Transforming the Difficult Child: The Nurtured Heart Approach Howard Glasser, MA and Jennifer Esley, MA
10 Days to a Less Defiant Child Jeffrey Bernstein, PhD
Transracial Adoption
Kinki Kreations: A Parent’s Guide to Natural Black Hair Care for Kids
Does Anybody Else Look Like Me? A Parent’s Guide to Raising Multiracial Children Donna Jackson Nakazawa
I Love My Hair! Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
General Parenting
Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5 The American Academy of Pediatrics
How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
Same Homework: New Plan How to Help Your Disorganized Kid Sit Down and Get it Done
Raising Good Kids in Tough Times: 7 Crucial Habits for Parent Success Dr Roger McIntyre
The Single Parent Resource Brook Noel with Art Klein
1-2-3 Magic Effective Discipline for Children 2-12 Thomas Phelan, PhD
Siblings Without Rivalry How to Help Your Children Live Together So you can live too Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
Homemade Books to Help Kids Cope: An Easy to Learn Technique for Parents and Professionals Robert G Ziegler, M.D.
Parenting With Love And Logic Foster W. Cline , Jim Fay
Get Out of My Life but First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall?
Anthony E. Wolf
Stop Negotiating with Your Teen: Strategies for Parenting Your Angry, Manipulative, Moody or
Depressed Adolescent
by Janet Sasson Edgette
Books for Children/ Young Adults
The Great Gilly Hopkins Katherine Patterson
Belle Prater’s Boy Ruth White
Lily’s Crossing Patricia Reilly Giff
Maybe Days: A Book for Children in Foster Care Jennifer Wilgocki and Marcia Kahn Wright
Finding the Right Spot: When Kids Can’t Live with Their Parents Janice Levy
Forever Fingerprints: An Amazing Discovery for Adopted Children Sherrie Eldridge
The Adventures of NanaCat and Her Children “Moving In” Maureen Catherine
All About Adoption: How Families are Made and How Kids Feel About It
Marc Nemiroff and Jane Annunziata
A Mother for Choco Keiko Kasza
Welcome Home, Forever Child: A Celebration of Children Adopted as Toddlers, Preschoolers and Beyond Christine Mitchell
Kids Need to Be Safe: A Book for Children in Foster Care Julie Nelson
A Terrible Thing Happened Margaret Holmes
Returnable Girl Pamela Lowell
It’s Okay to Be Different Todd Parr
Double-Dip Feelings: Stories to Help Children Understand Emotions Barbara S. Cain Anne Patterson
Families Change: A Book for Children Experiencing Termination of Parental Rights Julie Nelson Mary Gallagher
The Best I Can Be: Living with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome or Effects Liz Kulp
Guess Who’s Adopted?
Laura Kowalczyk Richards
The Sad, Mad, Glad Book: The Anatomy of Your Attitude
Chuck Stump and Jim Strawn
Anthologies
Touched by Adoption: Stories, Letters and Poems Nancy Robinson
The Heart Knows Something Different Teenage Voices from the Foster Care System
Sacred Connections: Stories of Adoption
Essays by Mary Ann Koenig
Photography by Niki Berg
Memoirs & Autobiographies
Three Little Words: A Memoir
Ashley Rhodes Courter
Another Place at the Table: A story of shattered childhoods redeemed by love
Kathy Harrison
One Small Boat: the story of a little girl, lost then found
Kathy Harrison
Scars that Can Heal
David Louis
Support Groups
The Support Group Manual A Session by Session Guide Harriet Sarnoff Schiff
201 Icebreakers: Group Mixers, Warm-ups, Energizers, and Playful Activities Edie West
For Professionals
Contemporary Issues in Permanency Planning Gerald P Mallon and Bogart Leashore
Wrongful Adoption Law, Policy and Practice Madelyn Freundlich and Lisa Peterson
Moving In: Ten Successful Independent/Transitional Living Programs Mark J Kroner
On Their Own What Happens to Kids When They Age Out of The Foster Care System Martha Shirk and Gary Stangler
Transracial Adoption and Foster Care Practice Issues for Professionals Joseph Crumbley
Youth Work Resources: Foster Youth Share Their Ideas for Change Janet Knipe and Joy Warren
The Troubled and Troubling Child Nicholas Hobbs
Foster Parent Retention and Recruitment: The State of the Art in Practice and Policy
Foster Youth Share Their Ideas for Change
Successful Strategies for Recruiting, Training, and Utilizing Volunteers: A Guide for Faith-and Community-Based Service Providers