Brenda McCreight Ph.D. is an author, speaker, and therapist as well as the mother of 14. Brenda entered the adoption world as the young adoptive mom of a 14 month old boy with undetermined "special needs". Those special needs were later diagnosed as fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, but at the time, so little was known about it that her family couldn't even get a diagnosis, let alone find any resources. Fortunately, as a family therapist, she was able to access the scientific research. She read what little she could find, and then she began putting on workshops for other parents and professionals so that they could learn to recognize the symptoms and create ways to help their children who carried the diagnosis that would soon become so common in the adoption field. Over the next 30 years, she adopted 12 more children and kept on top of the newest research on neuroscience so that she could provide effective counseling, parent coaching, and training. So far, she's written four books about adoption - they are "Recognizing and Managing Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/Effects" and "Parenting Your Older Adopted Child" and "Eden - The Story of an Older Child Adoption" and her most recent book "Help-I've Been Adopted". Brenda is the author of numerous magazine articles on adoption and has been given the Adoption Activist Award in 2003 by the North American Council on Adoptable Children. Brenda also enjoys writing fiction. She currently has several on Kindle including "Cleah: The Lost Fury Chronicles" and "Good Enough: A Shay James Mystery" and "Regards..." a book of short stories. More fiction books will be coming soon. She can be contacted by email at brendamccreight@gmail.com or through her blog at http://www.brendamccreight.blogspot.com