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Chargement... The Girl Behind the Door: A Father's Quest to Understand His Daughter's Suicidepar John Brooks
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This is every parent's nightmare - to have your child give up on life and wonder what you could have done differently. As an adoptive parent myself, I feel fortunate that information about attachment was much more available when we began our journey with our children. But I could relate to the difficulty in finding appropriate therapists and in knowing how to parent children with such deep seated emotional difficulties. I think Mr. Brooks has done a great service in bringing attachment into the public eye through his memoir. Unfortunately, there are no easy answers or quick fixes to this problem and unfortunately, his daughter is not the only tragic victim. ( ) This is a compelling look at a 17-year-old girl’s suicide as described by her father. Casey had been an only child adopted from an orphanage in Poland when she was 14 months old. Her adoptive parents knew little, if anything, about her history before her adoption. They only knew they wanted a child and that they were willing to do almost anything for her. However, as it turned out, they did not understand her or what she truly needed from them. They relied on child-rearing books and therapists who were great for most of the patients they treated, but their advice was actually counter to what Casey really needed. When Casey had temper tantrums, etc., especially when she was small, they should not have left her but held her even closer to compensate for her attachment disorder. Unfortunately, these well-meaning parents did not discover what Casey really needed from them before it was too late. The author now devotes much of his time working to prevent these types of things from happening to others. This was a wonderful, if sad, story. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"An award-winning, candid, and compelling story of an adoptive father's search for the truth about his teenage daughter's suicide: "Rarely have the subjects of suicide, adoption, adolescence, and parenting been explored so openly and honestly" (John Bateson, Former Executive Director, Contra Costa Crisis Center, and author of The Final Leap: Suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge). Early one Tuesday morning John Brooks went to his teenage daughter's room to make sure she was getting up for school and found her room dark and "neater than usual." Casey was gone but he found a note: The car is parked at the Golden Gate Bridge. I'm sorry. Several hours later a security video was found that showed Casey stepping off the bridge. Brooks spent months after Casey's suicide trying to understand what led his seventeen-year-old daughter to take her life. He examines Casey's journey from her abandonment at birth in Poland, to the orphanage where she lived for the first fourteen months of her life, to her adoption and life with John and his wife Erika in Northern California. He reads. He talks to Casey's friends, teachers, doctors, therapists, and other parents. He consults adoption experts, researchers, clinicians, attachment therapists, and social workers. In The Girl Behind the Door, Brooks shares what he learned and asks "What did everyone miss? What could have been done differently?" He'd come to realize that Casey might have been helped if someone had recognized that she'd likely suffered an attachment disorder from her infancy--an affliction common among children who've been orphaned, neglected, and abused. This emotional deprivation in early childhood, from the lack of a secure attachment to a primary caregiver, can lead to a wide range of serious behavioral issues later in life. John's hope is that Casey's story, and what he discovered since her death, will help others. This important book is a wakeup call that parents, mental health professionals, and teens should read"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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