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The Girl Behind the Door: A Father's Quest to Understand His Daughter's Suicide
by Brooks, John | HC | LikeNew
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- ISBN
- 9781501128349
- Book Title
- Girl Behind the Door : a Father's Quest to Understand His Adopted Daughter's Suicide
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology
- Topic
- Parenting / Fatherhood, Parenting / General, Personal Memoirs, General, Developmental / General, Suicide, Adoption & Fostering
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 13.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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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.
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Scribner
ISBN-10
1501128345
ISBN-13
9781501128349
eBay Product ID (ePID)
215292971
Product Key Features
Book Title
Girl Behind the Door : a Father's Quest to Understand His Adopted Daughter's Suicide
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Parenting / Fatherhood, Parenting / General, Personal Memoirs, General, Developmental / General, Suicide, Adoption & Fostering
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
13.2 Oz
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Lc Classification Number
Rc569.B76 2016
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A moving and riveting memoir about one family's love and tragedy. It contains extremely important information about the disordered sense of attachment that children of orphanages and institutionalization can experience. And it is beautifully researched, and expressed. I love this girl Casey, and her brave parents, and am very grateful that Mr. Brooks has written this book., This is the story of a family like many. Years ago they came together with love and hopefulness. They were determined and uncertain, courageous and afraid and ultimately, innocent and guilty. Do not think that because this is a book about an adoptive family that you will not recognize yourself. Do not think that because it is about a child's suicide that you can have the luxury of turning away...Read this book., John's tragic story holds this lesson for all of us. His willingness to share Casey's story will save lives.
Copyright Date
2016
Target Audience
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Lccn
2015-032890
Dewey Decimal
362.28092 B
Dewey Edition
23
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