• On the first Monday of each month, we meet for support, encouragement, food and fellowship at the Starbucks on Market Street in Leesburg,VA. We meet at 7:30pm and all parents are welcome to join us.  Led by Lori Thomas, this group delves into topics on parenting through adoption and foster care, special needs parenting, and issues of attachment in children. 
  

• Building the Bonds of Attachment, by Daniel A. Hughes
• The Jonathon Letters, by Michael Trout & Lori Thomas
• The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog, by Bruce D. Perry & Maia Szalavitz
• Attachment, Trauma, and Healing, by Terry M. Levy & Michael Orlans
• Pooh and the Psychologists, by John Tyerman Williams

Additional Resources for Parents

• Parenting from the Inside Out, by Daniel J. Siegel & Mary Hartzell
• Parenting the Hurt Child,  by Gregory C. Keck & Regina M. Kupecky
• Hope for Healing, a Therapeutic Parenting Manual , by ATTACh
• A Child Called "It", by Dave Pelzer
• The Lost Boy, by Dave Pelzer
• A Man Named Dave, by Dave Pelzer
• That's My Hope, by Lil Ingram & Marlene Lee

Additional Resources for Professionals

• Creating Capacity for Attachment, edited by Arthur Becker-Weidman & Deborah Shell
• Facilitating Developmental Attachment, by Daniel A. Hughes
• A Secure Base, by John Bowlby
• Play With Them, Phyllis B. Rubin & Jeanine Tregay
• Theraplay, Ann M. Jernberg & Phyllis B. Booth
• Handbook of Attachment Interventions, edited by Terry M. Levy