by Kristi Lyn Stewart

Kristi Lyn Stewart is the mother of five children, one of whom has autism.
"In this positive portrayal of life raising a child with autism, Kristi Stewart takes us through myriad emotions, ending ultimately with the message that while there are hefty mountains to climb, the view when reaching the top is vast and breathtaking. She is clear, however, that the summit isn’t necessarily recovering your child, but rather finding peace within yourself and discovering happiness that results in making the most of the victories – even if they’re seemingly small – along the journey."
—Leeann Whiffen, Author of A Child’s Journey Out of Autism

"This is the first book on autism I've read that both uplifed and represented me! Mrs. Stewart allows the outside world to peer through the window of our homes and feel some of the truly unique experiences we have raising our children with autism."
—Kathy Healey, mother of a child with autism

ISBN 978-1-935089-19-3, 160pp, 6"x9", Softcover.

Dave Ziegler, Ph.D.

Attachment is the single most important ability related to social development for a child or adolescent. Difficulties with attachment can affect a person's social, psychological, and even physical health throughout life. If attachment problems are identified early, proper treatment can help the person overcome the factors that lead to a life of isolation and unhappiness.

Designed by a psychologist and 17 years in development, the ADAS-R is the most validated instrument available to measure attachment and is now being commercially released for the first time. Used in conjunction with other diagnostic information, the ADAS-R can be an invaluable tool to quickly and easily measure a reliable level of attachment concern for a young person in order to determine the most effective plan of care.

The ADAS-R kit includes a hard plastic carrier case, 25 protocol scoresheets, and a 52-page manual that explains the scale, attachment problems, and treatment options.

by Dave Ziegler, Ph.D.

From the Author of Raising Children Who Refuse to Be Raised and Traumatic Experience and the Brain comes this third book in the difficult children trilogy. For more than 30 years, Dr. Dave Ziegler has been a psychologist, therapist, and foster parent to hundreds of the most challenging children. His methods have helped these "impossible" children — and their parents, teachers, and caregivers — to get back on the right track. He has done what many therapists don't know how to do: help to raise troubled youths, who are the exceptions to all the usual rules, into healthy, successful human beings. This book emphasizes an important element of being successful with difficult children — hope. The repeated message is not only that success is possible, but also that it is realistically achievable. However, success comes only with the right type of hard work combined with a deep understanding of what troubled children need. If success with your child is escaping your grasp, you'll find some help in these pages.

ISBN 0966657292. 376 pages. 6"x9". Softcover.

by Shirley Budd Pusey

In Adoption Reunion Stories, the author chronicles the deeply moving experiences of thirty-eight adoptees and fifty-six other family members. Each person interviewed contributes insights gained through the process of learning about and/or meeting other members of the adoption triad. Anyone who has ever been involved with an adoption, whether as a professional or as a family member, and especially those who are adopted or have placed a child for adoption, will find this book an invaluable source of enlightenment and comfort.

ISBN 0976222450. 266 pages. 6"x9". Softcover.

by Dave Ziegler, PhD

Traumatic Experience and the Brain is the result of Dr. Dave Ziegler's three decades of experience with children traumatized by abuse and/or neglect. This book details the effect of such trauma on the developing brain, describing how it actually rewires one's perceptions of self, others, and the world. It is a book of hope for foster, natural, and adoptive parents of such "broken" children and the therapists, teachers and social workers who attempt to help them. Dave Ziegler, M.S., Ph.D., is the director of Scar/Jasper Mountain, a residential treatment program in Oregon for some of society's most damaged children.

ISBN 0967118751. 172 pages. 6"x9". Softcover.

by Dave Ziegler, Ph.D.

Raising Children who Refuse to Be Raised is a handbook no natural, foster or adoptive parent should be without. Anyone who lives or works with children with multiple problems who are also frightened, traumatized and angry will benefit from the advice of this master counselor and foster parent.

ISBN 0967118727. 310 pages. 6"x9". Softcover.

Janine Gordon, M.D., Board Certified Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist:
"If you are the parent or therapist of a child who lies, steals, is hyperactive, traumatized, distrustful, aggressive, belligerent or explosive, you will find in this book the fundamentals of parenting such a child. Dr. Ziegler is a dedicated practitioner and foster parent who writes from his 30 years of experience of living and working with children who have multiple problems. He looks at traditional understandings of behavior disordered children with a critical fresh eye. Any parent with a difficult child to raise could benefit from his suggestions. This book will inform, engage, challenge and disarm you, but most of all it will give you hope."

Dan and Edie Vink, Adoptive Parents:
"When we first met Dave, we had a merry-go-round life -- predictable, safe, married, no kids. Our first daughter came along when she was twelve years old, with two failed adoptions and many challenges. We were in way over our heads! Through his common sense, down-to-earth approach, Dave took us from Parenting 101 to graduate school. He can make the hardest principle understandable and user friendly. We now have five special needs daughters; they are growing up with successes in their lives and are becoming confident in their self-worth. With Dave's help, we have grown right along with them."

Beverly James, M.S.W., Therapist, Author and Trauma Expert
"Among the most misunderstood children are survivors of profound abuse and neglect, often beginning in utero. These youngsters get multiple diagnostic labels such as ADD, ADHD, OCD, ODD, PTSD, Bipolar, FAS, RAD, etc. They're not mentally ill! The adaptive behaviors they've created for survival are the very ones that confound, frustrate and frighten even the most patient caregivers and therapists. Dr. Dave Ziegler writes with the clarity that comes from working with these kids for 30 years. He provides a great mix of wisdom, humor and practical tools for families and their therapist/coaches. The safe emotional environment he describes combines optimal structure and appropriate limits with nourishment and compassion. Going beyond behavioral management, he shows how to create a context of hope wherein they can begin to accept their past, allow people to love and care for them, and finally bloom and develop."