Publications

 • Gender Born, Gender Made. Raising Healthy Gender-Noncomforming Children

In Gender Born, Gender Made, Diane Ehrensaft offers parents, clinicians, and educators guidance on both the philosophical dilemmas and the practical, daily concerns of working with children who don’t fit a “typical” gender mold. She debunks outmoded approaches to gender nonconformity that may actually do children harm. And she offers a new framework for helping each child become his or her own unique, most gender-authentic person. Click for more information: http://genderborngendermade.com/

“Gender Born, Gender Made brings to our homes, schools, and clinicians’ offices a wealth of ideas and tools that will prove invaluable as we move toward a more empathetic, just, and inclusive society.”
—From the foreword by Edgardo Menvielle, MD, MSHS

• Building a Home Within: Meeting the Emotional Needs of Children and Youth in Foster Care
Toni Vaughn Heineman (Editor), Diane Ehrensaft (Editor)

All children need stable, lasting relationships with caring adults to ensure their healthy emotional, cognitive, and social development. But for children and adolescents in foster care, these essential relationships are often absent. This book presents a proven solution based on over 10 years of groundbreaking work by the Children's Psychotherapy Project (CPP): When young people work with the same therapist for as long as they need to, they'll make better progress toward developing strong, healthy relationships and hope for the future. More than a dozen experts from the CPP give psychologists, social workers, counselors, and program administrators a complete, research-supported introduction to this successful "one child, one therapist, for as long as it takes" model as they share their triumphs and challenges. Through the lessons these therapists learned as they donated their time to weekly psychotherapy sessions, readers will gain new insight on how to build positive relationships with children. They'll learn how to address various aspects of foster care. Available from Amazon.

• The Abused Child: Psychodynamic Understanding and Treatment
By Toni Vaughn Heineman - Guilford Press (1998) IBN 1572303751

Capturing the complexities of working with abused children, Heineman explores the intrapsychic worlds of these youngsters and examines many of the paradoxes and complications encountered when treating them. The book traces the interplay of neurobiological and psychological facets of behavior to show how abuse derails normal development and how psychodynamic psychotherapy can reestablish emotional connections. Chapters highlight special issues involved when working with children who have been physically, sexually, and emotionally abused, exploring memory and disclosure, dissociation and externalization, and the relationship between action and spoken language. The book also addresses important factors in understanding and working with parents and caregivers and reviews such relevant legal issues as the process of court-ordered evaluations. Throughout, clinical vignettes illustrate the practical applications of concepts and theories discussed. Available from Amazon.