Adoption and fostering

This practice-focused guide introduces The SmartStart Toolbox as a remedial program to help mental health professionals and adoptive parents promote the educational and social development of internationally adopted children aged 4-8.

Assessing prospective adoptive parents, foster carers, kinship carers and special guardians is an extremely complex task, and one that happens within a pressurized time frame.

Simple and concise, The Teacher's Introduction to Attachment offers an easy way to understand children with attachment issues and how they can be supported.

Healing the Hidden Hurts: Transforming Attachment and Trauma Theory into Effective Practice with Families, Children and Adults provides a unique collection of professional and personal responses to the challenges that arise in dealing with attachment difficulties.

One sunny day, Bomji the rabbit and his friend Spotty the cat meet something very scary while picking flowers in the woods.

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

Katie Careful has just moved in with her siblings and their new parents.

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

Written by experienced clinicians, this book provides an exploration of how educators can easily use Dyadic Developmental Practice (DDP) to help vulnerable pupils to thrive.

Children who are cared for in an out of home placement are in need of support and stability.

Adopted children whose early development has been altered by abuse or neglect may form negative beliefs about themselves and parents, and may resist connecting with others.

Since the Korean War began, Western families have adopted more than 200,000 Korean children.

Die Biografien von Adoptiv- und Pflegekindern sind oft von schlimmen Erlebnissen, mangelhafter Versorgung und einem fehlenden liebevollen Umgang geprägt.

How can social workers and neuro-diverse foster carers collaborate to provide the best support for a child or teen in need?

Normally, our relationships with our brothers and sisters are the longest relationships in our lives, outlasting time with our parents, and most marriages today.

Originally published in 1973, The Receiving End looks at the British welfare services for deprived children.

Theraplay(R) is an attachment-focused model of parenting that helps parents to understand and relate to their child.

Using both historical and contemporary contexts, The Child Welfare Challenge examines major policy practice and research issues as they jointly shape child welfare practice and its future.

An exploration of how ordinary U.

How are adoptions arranged?

William Wobbly is having a very bad day.

Across Europe young people in public care are around five times less likely to attend tertiary education than those who have not been in care.

Toddler Adoption looks at the unique joys and challenges of adopting and parenting a toddler.

Few foster carers or adoptive parents realise the benefits that yoga and related mind/body approaches can unlock for them and their families.

Social Work and the Courts is a collection of important and cutting-edge court decisions in the field of human services, now in its third edition.

Practical techniques for guiding parents through the stages of adoption and beyond Editors Virginia Brabender and April Fallon are clinical psychologists and also adoptive parents whose families are acquainted with both the uncertainty and joy of adoption.

In recent decades the concept of kinship has been challenged and reinvigorated by the so-called ';repatriation of anthropology' and by the influence of feminist studies, queer studies, adoption studies, and science and technology studies.

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Understanding Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is a useful introduction to the most common non-genetic learning disability, which is caused by alcohol consumption during pregnancy.

The care system looks after the most vulnerable young people in society - those who are, for a variety of reasons, unable to live with their parents.

In the 1980s families other than those made up of the natural mother, father, and siblings were increasing in number.

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.

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.

Transnational surrogacy the creation of babies across borders has become big business.

What personal truths reside in biological ties that are absent in adoptive ties?

How can we help heal children who have been abused or neglected?

'Our book about trauma features buzzy bees stuck in your tummy, yes, and also science and superheroes, carrots and lambs, lollies and, unfortunately for me, baboons.

Though the overthrow and exile of Napoleon in 1815 is a familiar episode in modern history, it is not well known that just a few months later, British colonisers toppled and banished the last king in Ceylon.

Family-making in America is in a state of flux-the ways people compose their families is changing, including those who choose to adopt.

Rosie Rudey loves chocolate.

The perfect starting point for parents of transracially adopted children and those who are considering adopting transracially.

Adam Ferner's engaging and personal book explores the ethical dimensions of childcare in a world riven by conflict and inequality.

Life story work is an approach designed to enable traumatized children to explore, question and understand the past events of their lives.

I love you, no matter what.

Life story work is a term often used to describe an approach that helps looked after and adopted children to talk and learn about their life experiences with the help of a trusted adult.

Decades of demographic studies and applied efforts have convinced scholars, students, and social workers that young people coming of age and transitioning out of the foster care system face great challenges in health, education, income, and general well-being.

A sensitive picture book to help ease the anxieties of foster children aged 4 to 10 entering placement.

Difficult behaviour in children with developmental trauma comes from a place of hurt.

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

Capturing the warmth and fun of forming close relationships with children, this book offers simple advice to parents of children who find it difficult to attach and bond - whether following adoption, divorce or other difficult experiences.