Dr. David Adams, Child and Adult Psychology

01/02/2026

12/06/2025

Navigating the Holidays can be hard with kids with trauma. Check out this podcast I did on helping prepare foster kids/kids with trauma for the holidays.

11/12/2025

Difference between PTSD and Complex PTSD

11/09/2025

The teachable moment is not when either you as a parent or your child/teen is in a heightened emotional state. The nervous system must be calm to be able to listen, reason, and learn! If your child is dysregulated, no not confront or attack the behavior in that moment!

09/15/2025

“If you focus so much on the rupture and you don’t focus on the repair, you’re going to get a repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat cycle.”

Break the repeat‑cycle with repair skills you can use tonight.

Day 2 with Dr. David Adams at TraumaWise Parenting Summit Sept 15–17, 2025 (Virtual • Free)

🎟 Free ticket: https://traumawise.com/summits/parenting-2025-home/registration/

02/03/2025

I am excited to share that you can preorder my book on Amazon that will be internationally released in July2025. The book is called: "Trauma-Informed Foster & Adoptive Parenting: Methods for Managing Meltdowns, Mishaps, and Maladaptive Behaviors" The book provides an overview of how trauma can affect the brain and behaviors of children in foster care and children with trauma histories. It focuses on the latest behavioral and neurobiological research all within an attachment-based framework. This book will benefit professionals, foster/adoptive parents, and parents who have a child with a trauma history. Please consider preordering it here on the following link and sharing this resource to other foster/adoptive parents:

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08/26/2024

https://www.drdavidadams.com/Dr-Adams-Blog/Entries/2024/8/trauma-informed-care-repairing-the-rupture--dr-david-adams-1.html

Dr. Adams outlines the beautiful things that can come out of a rupture. Whenever there is a rupture, there is an opportunity to repair and rebuild

08/04/2024

Lessons learned from The Neurosequential Model and Trauma-Informed Care....

Dr. Bruce Perry summarized the Rs (Regulate, Relate, and Reason) in the Neurosequential Model. In this article, Dr. David Adams summarize how an understanding of the 3 R’s can help children with trauma histories.

07/07/2024

On August 8, 2016, I took in Andrew and Makayla to be my foster children. The has been one of the most boldest and craziest (yet wisest thing) I have every done. There is a new movie about a rural black church that decided to take in all of the foster kids in their community. I imagine it was one of the boldest, crazy, yet wisest thing this little rural church ever did as well to support their community and serve the needs of the most vulnerable! Check it out if you want to be inspired. But beware, it may change you forever!

Buy Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot tickets, watch trailers and find showtimes near you.

06/30/2024

Trauma-Informed Care: Handling the Meltdown with Empathy by Dr. David Adams

Traditional disciplinary practices are not always effective for children with trauma histories. The field of applied behavior analysis (ABA) and interpersonal neurobiology can help provide some tools for us to learn how to respond to meltdowns, especially for children with trauma histories. Check out this article I wrote on the topic!
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/trauma-informed-care-handling-meltdown-empathy-david-adams-eteoc/?trackingId=v3YEGCd8osi%2BWz24Bcz7QQ%3D%3D

01/01/2022

The Power of Gratitude for a New Year.
This article I wrote may help you.

The Power of Gratitude for a New Year When most of us reflect on this past year, our first thoughts may not be pleasant ones. We may think about our hardships. We may feel overwhelmed with loss. We may be reminded how COVID has wreaked havoc and chaos in our own lives and the lives of our loved ones...