Adoption Resources

Books Providing Information on Adoption

General Adoption

• Adoption Parenting. Creating a Tool Box, Building Connections Jean MacLeod and Sheena Macrae
• Attachment-Focused Family Therapy D. Hughes
• Attachment-Focused Family Therapy Workbook D. Hughes
• Attachment-Focused Parenting - Effective Strategies to Care for Children D. Hughes
• Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self D. Brodzinsky, 1993
• Brain-Based Parenting D. Hughes/J. Baylin
• Building the Bonds of Attachment D. Hughes
• Parenting Your Adopted Child: A Positive Approach to Building a Strong Family A. Adesman, 2004
• Talking with Young Children About Adoption M. Watkins & S. Fisher, 1993
• Toddler Adoption: The Weaver's Craft M. Hopkins-Best, 1997
• The Awakened Family – A Revolution in Parenting Shefali Tsabary
• The Conscious Parent – Transforming Ourselves, Empowering our Children Shefali Tsabary

Intercountry and Trans-Racial Adoption

• Cross-Cultural Adoption: How to Answer Questions A. Coughlin & C. Abramowitz, 2004
• Does Anybody Else Look Like Me: A Parent's Guide to Raising Multiracial Children A. J. Nakazawa
• I'm Chocolate, You're Vanilla M. Wright, 2000
• In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories R. J. Simon & R. M. Roorda, 2000
• Inside Transracial Adoption G. Steinberg & B. Hall, 2000
• Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child: From Your First Hours Together Through the Teen Years P. Cogan, 2008
• The Complete Book of International Adoption D. Davenport , 2006

Open Adoption

• Children of Open Adoption and their Families K. Silber
• Dear Birthmother: Thank You for Our Baby K. Silber, 1998
• The Open Adoption Experience: A Complete Guide L. R. Melina & S. Kaplan Roszia, 1993
• The Open Hearted Way to Adoption: Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole L. Holden

Older Child - Special Needs Adoption

• Adopting a Child with a Trauma and Attachment Disruption History Theresa Fraser, 2011
• Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families with Special Needs Kids G. Keck & R. Kupecky
• Adopting the Older Child C. Jewett, 1978
• Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children D. Hughes, 1999
• Older Child Adoption G. Robinson, 1998
• Parenting Your Adopted Older Child B. McCreight, 2002

Websites Providing Information on Adoption

• The Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services Visit Website
• Adoption Council of Ontario (ACO) Visit Website
• AdoptOntario Visit Website
• Adopt4Life – Ontario’s Adoptive Parent Association Visit Website
• Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies (OACAS) Visit Website
• Canada Adopts Visit Website
• Adoption Learning Partners Visit Website
• Parent Books Visit Website