Allison Davis Maxon Books

Focusing on the 'Seven Core Issues' model, this guide enhances support for adopted children, adoptive parents, and birth parents. It explores essential themes such as loss, rejection, shame, grief, identity, intimacy, and control, while also discussing important factors like race, sexuality, and kinship care. The book serves as a comprehensive resource for understanding the complexities of adoption and improving relational dynamics among all parties involved.

A structured resource with activities and exercises to help children and teens explore their feelings and strengthen healing after trauma. The book follows the pioneering Seven Core Issues model, which addresses loss, rejection, shame/guilt, grief, identity, intimacy and mastery and control.

Dealing with the Seven Core Issues of Adoption and Permanency has never been easier than with this Seven Core Issues workbook for parents. Based on the framework of the highly popular Seven Core Issues US model, this workbook will help parents, and their families identify and resolve their core issues and bring about healing.

"Deep South was originally published in 1941, documenting in startling detail the nuances, character, and lived realities of racism in a southern town. Allison Davis and his co-authors, Burleigh and Mary Gardner, all went undercover, not revealing their scholarly project or even their association with one another. Their analysis notably revealed the importance of caste and class to both Black and White worldviews, and it anatomized how those are constructed, reified, and reinforced. Deep South is freshly relevant today to those interested in the concept of caste and how it continues to inform the many flavors of American inequality"--