255 pages. The jacket has minor chipping at the edges; up to Chapter three there is intermittent underscoring, mostly with a lead pencil, but in some cases with a red one. Overall a clean and solid copy, which from chapter four is also unmarked. 'Written in a nontechnical style, 'Adopting the Hurt Child' Hope for Families with Special Needs Kids a Guide For Parents and Professionals brings to light grim truths but also real hope that children who have been hurt can be healed and brought back into life by adoptive and foster parents, therapists, teachers, social workers, and others whose lives interact with theirs. - Includes information on foreign adoptions" (Publisher)