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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 150 EAN: 9780970352545 Edition: Upd Exp ISBN: 0970352549 Label: Families by Design Manufacturer: Families by Design Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 148 Publication Date: January 31, 2005 Publisher: Families by Design Studio: Families by Design Related Items:
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 Rating:  - awesome bookAn absolute MUST READ for anyone parenting a RAD child or adopting older children. I wish I had read this book first!!!! Rating:  - Sounds enticing...but I fear quackeryThe ideas suggested in this book appear logical and make some intuitive sense to me, and I got excited while reading it. However, the author admits from page one that she is not a trained psychologist; nor is she a trained researcher. She does have expertise due to her years of parenting RAD children in her home, and apparently 90 percent of them have killed before. She claims a success rate with these children, though she doesn't say how highj. My problem is that without empirical data (she offers ... Read More Rating: - Great resourceWe was given this book shortly after we adopted our son. It has great information and is written so anyone can understand it, not all clinical jargon. I have reread the book several times at different stages of our sons development. This book is a great resource and I highly recommend it to anyone living with a RAD child. Rating: - Good info -- Taken too FarWhen Love Is Not Enough: A Guide to Parenting Children with RAD does offer some very great information and insight about parenting children with Reactive Attachment Disorder however as the Reviewer below me points out some of the advice seems a bit extreme to me. I also believe that some approaches are not healthy for children with other significant issues and found that parenting a child with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) specifically Alcohol Related Neurodevelopmental Disorder ... Read More Rating: - A FosterAdoption NecessityHow I wish I had read this book to use 9 years ago with our two beautiful special needs adopted children. Very practical, useful, powerful tools to build attachment, navigate through the muddy waters of behavior crises, counselling, schools, and extended family. Useful for kids under 12, a bit light on legal advice that can become extremely critical as adolescent storms hit. Encouraging, humorous,touching. It should be required at adoption prep classes for any child. 
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