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The Connected Parent

Real-Life Strategies for Building Trust and Attachment

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The Connected Parent

By: Lisa Qualls, Karyn Purvis PhD
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There is hope for every child, every parent, and every family...

Parenting under the best of circumstances can be difficult. And raising children who have come to your home from “hard places,” who have their own set of unique needs, brings even more challenges. You may have discovered that the techniques that worked with your birth children are not working with your adopted or foster child.

Renowned child-development expert Dr. Karyn Purvis gives you practical advice and powerful tools you can use to encourage secure attachment in your family. You will benefit from Karyn’s decades of clinical research and real-world experience. Coauthor Lisa Qualls demonstrates how you can successfully implement these strategies in your home, just as she did in hers.

You will learn how to simplify your approach using scripts, nurture your child, combat chronic fear, teach respect, and develop other valuable tools to facilitate a healing connection with your child.

The Connected Parent will help you lovingly guide your children and bring renewed hope and restoration to your family.

©2020 Lisa C. Qualls and Karen Purvis (P)2020 Harvest House Publishers Adoption & Fostering Children's Health Christian Living Christianity Family Ministry & Evangelism Parenting & Families Relationships Special need Health Adoption Trauma Informed Parenting
Practical Parenting Strategies • Valuable Trauma Insights • Excellent Narration • Compassionate Approach • Engaging Writing
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As a mom with two adopted children and two foster children, this book was so life-giving. Such good encouragement and reminders! It really helps to slow down, have patience, and remember that they are doing the best that they know how to do. It’s a process and this book is super helpful for the journey!

If you foster/adopt, this is a MUST READ!

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This is a book I wish I would have had when my daughters were younger. It is also a book I wish my parents would have had in the years after they adopted me. Dr. Purvis and Lisa Qualls are a gifted team and their balance of brain science with practical advice makes this a valuable resource to refer to over and over again.

A Must Read for Foster and Adoptive Parents

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I recommend this book to all humans because everyone has relationships. While written through the lens of parenting kids from hard places, it also describes a parenting & relational culture that prioritizes the underlying fundamental attachment needs of all people, children and adults.

An holistic approach to relational health

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We are the parents of 3 biological children, (aged 24, 22, and 15) and for the past 13 1/2 months we’ve also been the foster / soon-to-be adoptive parents of 2 baby brothers (aged 28 and 14 months) from hard places. We quickly realized that the previous parenting skills that helped us raise 3 amazing people were NOT helpful or effective in training our newest family members. We’re so grateful to Karyn Purvis and everyone that has established TBRI and contributed this book for helping to save our family and our sanity!!

This Book and TBRI are saving our family!!

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If you are a parent or educator, you will gain invaluable insights to understand and help the children you serve.

A must read for all parents!

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For anyone working with children, TBRI is life changing. Everyone should read! Kids from hard places need our help.

Life Changing

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the book is insightful, affirming, practical and shared in a humble way. a helpful encouragement.

worth the reqd

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Dr. Karyn Purvis has done such amazing work for the foster care community. Her TBRI principles are invaluable to anyone working with or caring for foster children. This book makes those principles easily accessible and brings comfort to parents struggling to raise children from trauma. Highly recommend it to any teachers, parents or cps/casa workers involved with foster care.

Such an asset to any foster parent

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This book was such an encouragement! Filled with simple strategies to help raise kids from hard places. If you need some encouragement raise kids, this is the book for you!

Wonderful book!

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very easy to understand by simplifying complex principles into terms the non-trained parents/caregivers can understand

full of helpful tools

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