Resources for Parents:
Brazelton, T.B. (1992). Touchpoints: Your child’s emotional and behavioral development. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing.
Brazelton, T.B. & Greenspan, S. (2000). The irreducible needs of children: What every child must have to grow, learn, and flourish. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing.
Breggin, P. (2000). Reclaiming our children: A healing solution for a nation in crisis. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books.
Chopra, D. (1994). Journey into healing. New York: Harmony Books.
Clark, N. & Post, B. (2005). The forever child: A tale of loss and impossible dreams. Mountain View, OK: M. Brynn Publishing.
Clark, N. & Post, B. (2003). The forever child: A tale of fear and anger. Mountain View, OK: M. Brynn Publishing.
Clark, N. & Post, B. (2002). The forever child: A tale of lies and love. Mountain View, OK: M. Brynn Publishing.
Covey, S.R. (2007). The 8th habit: From effectiveness to greatness. New York, NY: Free Press.
Davis, P. (1999). The power of touch: The basis for survival, health, intimacy, and emotional well-being. Carlsbad, CA: Hay House.
Eldridge, S. (1999). Twenty things adopted kids wish their adoptive parents knew. New York, NY: Dell Publishing.
Forbes, H.T. & Post, B.B. (2006). Beyond consequences, logic, and control: A love-based approach to helping attachment-challenged children with severe behaviors, Volume I. Orlando, FL: BCI.
Forbes, H.T. & Dziegielewski, S. (2003). Issues facing adoptive mothers of children with special needs. Journal of Social Work 3 (3). (Available for download at: www.beyondconsequences.com)
Goldman. D. (2006). Social Intelligence. New York, NY: Bantam Books.
Goleman, D. (1994). Emotional intelligence: Why it can matter more than IQ. New York, NY: Bantam Books.
Granju, K. & Kennedy, B. (1999). Attachment parenting: Instinctive care for your baby and young child. New York, NY: Pocket Books.
Hanh, T. (1987). Being peace. Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press.
Harris, B. (2008). Confident parents, remarkable kids: 8 principles for raising kids you’ll love to live with. Avon, MA: Adams Media.
Harris, B. (2003). When your kids push your buttons and what you can do about it. New York, NY: Warner Books.
Hanessian, L. (2004). Let the baby drive: Navigating the road of new motherhood. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press.
Hart, A. (1992). Stress and your child. Dallas, TX: Word Publishing.
Jamplosky, G. (1979). Love is letting go of fear. Berkley, CA: Celestial Arts.
Karen, R. (1994). Becoming attached: Unfolding the mystery of the infant-mother bond and its impact on later life. New York, NY: Warner Books, Inc.
Karr-Morse, R., & Wiley, M.S. (1997). Ghosts from the nursery: Tracing the roots of violence. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press.
Kohn, A. (2006). The homework myth: Why our kids get too much of a bad thing. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press.
Kohn, A. (2005). Unconditional parenting: Moving from rewards and punishment to love and reason. New York, NY: Atria Books.
Liedloff, J. (1986). The continuum concept. New York, NY: Penguin Books.
Perry, B. & Szalavitz M. (2007). The boy who was raised as a dog: And other stories from a child psychiatrist’s notebook – What traumatized children can teach us about loss, love, and healing. New York, NY: Basic Books.
Rosenberg, M. (2003). Nonviolent communication: A language of life. Encinitas, CA: Puddle Dancer Press.
Sears, W. & Sears, M. (2001). The attachment parenting book: A commonsense guide to understanding and nurturing your baby. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company.
Selye, H. (1974). Stress without distress. New York, NY: Signet.
Siegel, D. & Hartzell, M. (2003). Parenting from the inside-out: How a deeper self-understanding can help you raise children who thrive. New York, NY: Jeremy P. Tarcher/ Putnam.
Tolle, E. (1999). The power of now. Novato, CA: New World Library.
Verrier, N.N. (1993). The primal wound: Understanding the adopted child. Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press.
Additional Resources for Professionals:
Bowlby, J. (1988). A secure base: Parent-child attachment and healthy human development. New York, NY: Basic Books.
Bowlby, J. (1980). Attachment and loss: Vol. 3 Loss: Sadness and depression. New York: Basic Books.
Bowlby, J. (1973). Attachment and loss: Vol. 2 Separation and anger. New York, NY: Basic Books.
Bowlby, J. (1969). Attachment and loss: Vol.1 Attachment. New York, NY: Basic Books.
Bremner, J. (2002). Does stress damage the brain?: Understanding traumarelated disorders from a mind-body perspective. New York, NY: W.W. Norton and Company.
Carnegie Corporation (1994). Starting point: Meeting the needs of our youngest children: The report of the Carnegie task force on meeting the needs of young children. New York, NY: Carnegie Corporation of New York.
DeGangi, Georgia. (2000). Pediatric disorders of regulation in affect and behavior. New York, NY: Academic Press.
Frattaroli, E. (2001). Healing the soul in the age of the brain. New York, NY: Penguin Books.
Greenspan, S., and Cunningham, A. (1993, August 22). Where do violent kids come from? Charlotte Observer, reprinted in the Washington Post.
Janus, L. (1997). Echoes from the womb. Livingston, NY: Jason Aronson.
Justice, B., & Justice, R. (1990). The abusing family. New York, NY: Plenum Press.
Kandel, E.R. (1998). A new intellectual framework for psychiatry. American Journal of Psychiatry, 155, 457-469.
LeDoux, J. (1996). The emotional brain: The mysterious underpinnings of emotional life. New York, NY: Touchstone.
Levine, P.A. (1999). Healing trauma: Restoring the wisdom of the body. (Audio Cassette Recording). Louisville, CO: Sounds True, Inc.
Levine, P.A. (1997). Waking the tiger, healing trauma. Berkley, CA: North Atlantic Books.
Lipton, B. (2005). The biology of belief: Unleashing the power of consciousness, matter, and miracles. Santa Rosa, CA: Mountain of Love/Elite Books.
McEwen, B.S. (1992). Paradoxical effects of adrenal steroids on the brain: Protection vs. degeneration. Biological Psychiatry 31, 177-199.
McEwen, B. (1999). Development of the cerebral cortex XIII: Stress and brain development – II. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 38, 101-103.
Montagu, A. (1986). Touching: The human significance of the skin. New York, NY: Harper and Row.
National Center for Clinical Infant Programs (2005). Diagnostic classification of mental health and developmental disorders of infancy and early childhood. Arlington, VA: Zero to Three.
Perry, B.D. (2002). Childhood experience and the expression of genetic potential: What childhood neglect tells us about nature and nurture. Brain and Mind, 3, 79-100.
Perry, B.D. & Pollard, R. (1998). Homeostasis, stress, trauma and adaptation: A neurodevelopmental view of childhood trauma. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 7(1) 33-51.
Perry, B.D. (1997). Incubated in terror: Neurodevelopmental factors in the “cycle of violence.” In J. Osofsky (Ed.), Children in a violent society (pp. 124-149). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Perry, B.D. (1996). Maltreated children: Experience, brain development, and the next generation. New York, NY: W. W. Norton.
Perry, B.D. (1996). Neurodevelopmental adaptations to violence: How children survive the intergenerational vortex of violence, Violence and childhood trauma: Understanding and responding to the effects of violence on young children, Gund Foundation, Cleveland.
Perry, B.D., Pollard, R.A., Blakely, T.L. Baker, W.L., & Vigilante, D. (1995). Childhood trauma, the neurobiology of adaptation, and “use-dependent” development of the brain: How states become traits. Infant Mental Health Journal, 16, 271-291.
Perry, B.D. (1993). Neurodevelopment and the neurophysiology of trauma: Conceptual considerations for clinical work with maltreated children. The Advisor, American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, 6:1.
Pert, C.B. (2004). Your body is your subconscious mind (Audio CD Recording). Louisville, CO: Soundstrue, Inc.
Pert, C.B. (2004). Psychosomatic wellness: Healing your bodymind (Audio CD Recording). Magic Bullets, Inc.
Pert, C.B. (1997). Molecules of emotion. New York, NY: Touchstone.
Ross, C.A. (2000). The trauma model. Richardson, TX: Manitou Communications.
Sapolsky, R.M. (1990). Stress in the wild. Scientific American 262, 116-23.
Scaer, R.C. (2005). The trauma spectrum: Hidden wounds and human resiliency. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Schore, A.N. (1994). Affect regulation and the origin of the self. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.
Schore, A.N. (2003). Affect regulation and the repair of the self. New York, NY: W.W. Norton.
Shapiro, F. & Forrest, M. (1998). EMDR: The breakthrough therapy for overcoming anxiety, stress, and trauma. New York, NY: Basic Books.
Siegel, D.J. (1995a). Memory, trauma, and psychotherapy: A cognitive science view. Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research, 4, 93-122.
Solomon, M.F. & Siegel, D.J. (Eds.). (2003). Healing trauma: Attachment, mind, body, and brain. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company.