Adoption and fostering

From Jonathan Harvey, the award-winning author of All She Wants and the writer of Coronation Street and Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, comes The Girl Who Just Appeared, a comedy with a huge, beating heart.

The first social history of disability and difference in American adoption, from the Progressive Era to the end of the twentieth century.

Black Americans' Strengths-Based Cultural Practices: Tools for Clinicians to Promote Psychological Well-Being uses historical, social, scientific, and psychological research to detail how mental health professionals can use the cultural practices of Black Americans and communities to promote positive psychosocial health.

This book brings together a collection of diverse contributors to discuss bisexual erasure and biphobia and how this intersects with racism, sexism, ableism and transphobia.

The practice of adoption has changed dramatically over the past half century, with profound implications for children and families.

On average, a quarter of a million children in the United States enter foster care every year.

On average, a quarter of a million children in the United States enter foster care every year.

The practice of adoption has changed dramatically over the past half century, with profound implications for children and families.

Providing an evidence-based understanding of the causes and consequences of violence against children, experts in the field examine the best practices used to help protect children from violence.

Beneath the Tapestry devotional walks alongside hopeful adoptive parents and families through the process of adoption and beyond.

Learn how to help couples to navigate and resolve the spiritual themes present in marriage Statistically speaking, about half of all first marriages fail.

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Therapeutic Residential Care For Children and Youth takes a fresh look at therapeutic residential care as a powerful intervention in working with the most troubled children who need intensive support.

A burgeoning evidence base supports that arts, play and other creative therapies have potential to help children in foster care, kinship care or adoptive families to recover from complex trauma.

A model of counseling that can be gracefully integrated into the functioning of the local church.

This book presents a supportive and practical guide for healthcare professionals ?

This edited collection is the first book of its kind to apply the theory, research, and teaching of Emotion Focused Therapy to youth and their families, equipping clinicians and students with the practical skills to facilitate individual, dyadic, and parent sessions confidently.

This third edition of the classic On Being a Mentor is the definitive guide to the art and science of engaging students and faculty in effective mentoring relationships in all academic disciplines.

Understanding practices of family separation and child removal necessitates considering the impacts of globalizing capitalism, colonialism, empire building and the establishment and normalization of systemic racism.

This groundbreaking and thought-provoking book puts the care experience at the centre of education history.

This book represents the author's extensive experience in the field of psychotherapy, counselling, and mental health over four decades.

This book represents the author's extensive experience in the field of psychotherapy, counselling, and mental health over four decades.