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005    20160202064947.0 
008    151112s2016    nyu           000 0beng   
010      2015032890 
020    9781501128349|q(hardback) 
020    1501128345|q(hardback) 
035    (OCoLC)929331698 
040    DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dOCLCO|dCLE 
042    pcc 
049    CKEA 
050 00 RC569|b.B76 2016 
082 00 362.28092|aB|223 
084    BIO026000|aFAM004000|aFAM034000|2bisacsh 
100 1  Brooks, John,|d1956-|eauthor. 
245 14 The girl behind the door :|ba father's quest to understand
       his daughter's suicide /|cJohn Brooks. 
250    First Scribner hardcover edition. 
264  1 New York :|bScribner,|c2016. 
300    216 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-216). 
520    "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"--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Brooks, John,|d1956-|xFamily. 
600 10 Brooks, Casey,|xMental health. 
650  0 Suicide|vBiography. 
650  0 Adopted children|vBiography. 
650  0 Fathers and daughters|vBiography. 
650  0 Attachment disorder in adolescence. 
650  0 Adopted children|xFamily relationships. 
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.|2bisacsh 
650  7 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Adoption & Fostering.|2bisacsh 
650  7 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / General.|2bisacsh 
994    92|bCKE