Healing Trauma Through Loving Relationships: Hope for Foster and Adoptive Families

by Megan Kruse, Nancy Fisher

“Healing Trauma Through Loving Relationships” intertwines Fisher's years of experience in foster/adoptive care with current social and neurological research to provide concrete and effective tools for working with traumatized children. A therapist, social worker, trainer, former foster parent, and current adoptive parent, Fisher provides unique insight into the world of foster/adoptive care and how we might strengthen our systems and families through a trauma-informed approach, shedding light on the vital role of loving relationships in ending generational cycles of trauma and helping children to heal. The abridged and secular addition is recommended for trainers and educators.

116 pages, Paperback

Published August 5, 2014

About the author

Megan Kruse is the author of Call Me Home, a novel from Hawthorne Books (2015), with an introduction by Elizabeth Gilbert.