Teen Adoption Resources

All these resources are available for free with your AFABC membership. www.bcadopt.com

General Strategies for Parenting Teens

1. Understanding your teen. Parenting strategies that work.
Langlois, Christine
2. Restoring the teenage soul .Nurturing sound hearts and minds in a confused culture.
Meeker, Margaret J.
3. Reclaiming our prodigal sons and daughters. A practical approach for connecting with youth in conflict.
Larson, Scott Reclaiming Our Prodigal Sons and Daughters offers a penetrating portrayal of the rootlessness of many of today's youth and a powerful, four-step plan for reaching them." - back cover

4. Help Yourself for Teens: Real-Life advice for real-life challenges
Dave Pelzer Sharing stories of his own adolescent struggles - fighting for his life against his alcoholic mother and enduring outrageous abuse at the hands of bullies and false friends - Pelzer imparts advice to help young people rise above their circumstances and achieve greatness. He offers teenagers practical solutions for overcoming their own hardships, focusing on three areas, facing current and past problems, realizing the importance of decision and finally, never giving up on oneself. Through it all, Pelzer never lets his readers forget that they alone have control over the outcomes of their lives.


A. Parenting Adopted Adolescents

1. Surviving adolescence (CD)
A workshop for parents raising challenging teens
adoptioncds.com

2. Beneath the Mask (CD)
Understanding adopted teens
Debbie Riley, John Meeks

3. I wonder (DVD)
Teenagers talk about being adopted
Fahlberg, Vera
Fourteen teenagers generously volunteered to share their thoughts about Adoption so that other families and professionals could learn more about the impact of adoption on lives of the children and teenagers

4. Questions Adoptees are Asking
About beginnings.. About birth family… about searching… about finding peace
Sherrie Eldridge Do you ever: Wonder if your birth mother ever thinks about you? Feel uncomfortable talking to your parents about your birth family? Doubt your worth? Wonder if your life was a mistake? Think that others don't "get it" about adoption? Sherrie Eldridge interviews more than seventy adoptees to bring your questions to light, find the answers, and create connection among Adults adoptees. Discover freedom in the unity and in your unique life purpose as you realize your value in life. For five years, Twenty Life-Transforming Choices Adoptees Need to Make has impacted the lives of adoptees and their families. This updated edition goes deeper with study questions for support groups or personal use.

5. Adopted teens only
A survival guide to adolescence
Gorbett, Danea

6. Parenting Adopted Adolescents
Understanding & appreciating their journeys
Gregory Keck

7. Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents knew
Eldridge, Sherrie
This book is an invaluable guide to the complex emotions take up residence within the heart of the adopted child and within the adoptive home

B. Adopting and parenting older children and teens

1. Teen Adoption Awareness (CD)

2. What makes it work? Strategies for successful teen adoptions (CD)
Joan McNamara

3. Three little words
A memoir
Rhodes-Courter, Ashley

4. Eden's secret journal
The story of an older child adoption
McCreight, Brenda

5. Our own
Adopting and parenting the older child
Maskew, Trish

6. Parenting your Adopted Older child
How to overcome the unique challenges and raise a happy and healthy child
McCreight, Brenda
This book shows parents how to resolve issues such as grief, loss, and sexual and physical abuse, as well as improve attachment, handle ADHD and Transracial issues, and manage the effects of drugs and alcohol.

7. Adopting the older child
Jewett, Claudia L.

8. Handbook for Teens
A toolkit for preparing teens for permanent family connections
Robert G. Lewis

9. Welcome in: families guide to the family bound program
A toolkit for preparing teens for permanent family connections
Robert G. Lewis