Adoption and fostering

Rosie Rudey loves chocolate.

The inspirational story of an American woman who moved mountains to secure medical treatmentsand eventually a homefor a young Iraqi girl severely burned in a roadside terror attack.

Can adoptive homes be found for non-white children?

Attachment is a word used to describe a simple idea - the relationship with someone you love or whose opinions are important to you - so why is so much of the language relating to attachment so obscure, and why is it so challenging to help children who lack healthy attachment bonds?

Black Single Mothers and the Child Welfare System examines the pressures, hardships, and oppression women of color face in the child welfare system, and how this affects social workers who investigate childhood abuse and neglect.

This book examines the question of what parental obligations procreators incur by bringing children into being.

'Dazzling' Fernanda Melchor'A brilliant debut' Vogue'Bright and brimming with sisterhood.

Charley Chatty likes to talk.

There is an increasing emphasis on post-qualifying training for social workers, especially in the complex and demanding area of working with children and families.

The decision whether or not to reunify a child in care with their birth family is one of the most serious taken by children's services, and often involves considerable risk.

Though the words "foster care" are not in the Bible, the act of caring for the vulnerable is clearly important to God.

Although single women have long been permitted to adopt children, adoption by unmarried men remains an uncommon experience in Western culture.

A Practical Guide to Fostering Law is an accessible, jargon-free guide to the key elements of the law that concern foster carers and the professionals who work with them.

Die "L'Homme"-Ausgabe "Kinder in Heimen" reiht sich in die aktuellen kritischen Debatten zu diesem gesellschaftlich relevanten und jüngst verstärkt ins Interesse der Öffentlichkeit gerückten Thema ein.

Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2018International adoption is in a state of virtual collapse, rates having fallen by more than half since 2004 and continuing to fall.

Therapeutic parenting is not your usual parenting style.

Through words, pictures, photographs, certificates and other 'little treasures', a Life Story Book provides a detailed account of the child's early history and a chronology of their life.

Between 1930 and the mid-1970s, several thousand Canadian-born children were adopted by families in the United States.

Based on a hugely successful US model, the Seven Core Issues in Adoption is the first conceptual framework of its kind to offer a unifying lens that was inclusive of all individuals touched by the adoption experience.

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

Although single women have long been permitted to adopt children, adoption by unmarried men remains an uncommon experience in Western culture.

Children and young people in care rarely match the academic achievements of their peers and policy and procedures to address this inequality have not yet remedied the problem.

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

Adoption is practiced globally yielding a multidimensional area of study that cannot be characterized by a single movement or discipline.

Adoption is an extremely complex and emotionally demanding process for all those involved.

This book offers a thorough examination and discussion of the evidence on attachment, its influence on development, and attachment disorders.

In 1990, disturbing television footage emerged showing the inhumane conditions in which children in Romanian institutions were living.

Designed as a professional complement to Sarah Naish's bestselling A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting, this tried and tested resource offers practical tools for all professionals supporting therapeutic families.

Finally, a parenting book which demystifies the latest thinking on neurobiology, physiology and trauma and explains what the research means for the everyday life of parents of children who hurt.

When Deborah Gold and her husband signed up to foster parent in their rural mountain community, they did not foresee that it would lead to a roller-coaster fifteen years of involvement with a traumatized yet resilient birth family.

Adoption: Changing Families, Changing Times draws together contributions from all those with an interest in adoption: adopted people; birth parents and adoptive parents; practitioners and managers in the statutory and voluntary sectors; academics and policy makers.

Child Welfare: Preparing Social Workers for Practice in the Field is a comprehensive text for child welfare courses taught from a social work perspective.

After moving to a humble cottage outside of a tiny Texas town, Debra Monroe rids herself of an abusive husband, battles sexist contractors and workers as she renovates her home, and finally, after several disheartening letdowns, is able to adopt her beautiful baby daughter, Marie.

Mental Health Screening and Monitoring for Children in Care provides a concise, step-by-step guide for children's agencies on how to carry out mental health screening and monitoring for children and adolescents growing up in alternative care.

When I am ready, I need you to talk to me and help me understand my feelings.

Many adoptees join their new families after having endured multiple traumatic experiences, which interrupts their development.

This book offers a unique combination of an in-depth examination of attachment, a refined and tested model of Needs Assessment and Therapeutic Treatment plans and applies it to specific contexts including those of children in residential/foster care, young offenders, and unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors.

Charley Chatty likes shiny things, especially shiny pennies.

Most adopted children and their families will, sooner or later, encounter the challenges of dealing with unresolved attachment issues or early traumatic experiences.

This pioneering volume draws together theoretical and empirical contributions analyzing the experiences of white mothers in interracial families in Britain, Canada and the USA.

Children in public care complain that they have too many placements.

Sprinkle the pig has moved to a new house, with a new family, but he misses his old family.

In Somebody's Children, Laura Briggs examines the social and cultural forces-poverty, racism, economic inequality, and political violence-that have shaped transracial and transnational adoption in the United States during the second half of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first.

Is transracial adoption a positive choice for kids?

A Guide to Therapeutic Child Care provides an easy to read explanation of the secrets that lie behind good quality therapeutic child care.

What should you expect when you're expecting to foster?

Mental Health Screening and Monitoring for Children in Care provides a concise, step-by-step guide for children's agencies on how to carry out mental health screening and monitoring for children and adolescents growing up in alternative care.

Responsible decisions are continually being made in social work.

All the Sweeter tells the stories of families who have adopted one or more children from the US foster care system.

A 2022 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic TitleTakes the first in-depth look at the New York City adoption agency that separated twins and triplets in the 1960s, and the controversial and disturbing study that tracked the children's development while never telling their adoptive parents that they were raising a ';singleton twin.