Everyday Ways To Connect With Your Adopted or Fostered Child

This indispensable guide has over 200 simple, easy to implement therapeutic parenting activities which you can easily build into everyday life. Starting with a simple explanation of therapeutic parenting and how to do it, it provides a host of strategies and activities to help tackle common challenges faced by families affected by trauma. This includes improving communication and relationships, lessening conflict, building confidence, creating structure and routine, and handling big emotions. The activities range from short daily check-ins to reinforce attachment through to creative therapeutic activities. The ideas in this book will help create an environment of acceptance, safety, and respect, and enable you and your child to build a stronger, more connected relationship.