Trauma-Informed Foster and Adoptive Parenting: Methods for Managing Meltdowns, Mishaps, and Maladaptive Behaviors

Many foster and adoptive parents lose hope when they experience challenging and oppositional child behaviors. This book gives parents the tools and strategies to respond to these outbursts - particularly those that stem from a child’s potentially traumatic history.

David Adams, Psy.D, LPCC, BCBA-D. is a proud adoptive parent, a licensed psychologist, and a licensed professional counselor. He is Clinic Director at Meier Clinics in Laguna Hills, a part-time professor at National University (ABA, School Psychology, Educational Counseling Dept.), and an expert trainer of Foster Care Kinship Education (FCKE) at Saddleback College.