Adoption and fostering

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.

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.

Around three quarters of people who turn to adoption do so because of infertility and those working in this field need information, guidance and support to assist them in the process of adoption to support the adopters and to deal with any issues that may result from infertility.

How do workers around the world balance risk and support to ensure that their practice meets the ever-changing needs of children and their families?

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Children and young people in care who have been traumatized need a therapeutic environment where they can heal and which meets their emotional and developmental needs.

In this completely revised and updated edition of Raising Adopted Children, Lois Melina, editor of Adopted Child newsletter and the mother of two children by adoption, draws on the latest research in psychology, sociology, and medicine to guide parents through all stages of their child's development.

The Lives of Foster Carers analyzes the contradictions, conflicts, and ambiguities experienced by foster carers arising from the inter-penetrations of public bureaucracy and private family life.

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

Another Mother gives voice to women who become mothers through the routes of adoption, surrogacy and egg donation, and their silent partners - the birth mothers, surrogate mothers and egg donors - who make motherhood possible for them.

This collection bridges the voices of international scholars and adopted persons to share knowledge about clinical practice with adopted people in adolescence and early adulthood.

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

This new book from life work expert Joy Rees explains the value of effective and meaningful life work with children who are fostered and adopted, and how best to carry this out.

This book expands our understanding of the growing, yet largely unstudied practice of intercountry adoption.

In this classic adoption picture book for children, Mother Bird rises to meet the challenges of bringing up her baby bird against all odds in an enduring tale of sacrifice, wisdom and love.

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

Conventional parenting is not adequate to address the needs of children whose emotional development has been frozen, distorted or interrupted as a result of trauma.

How do you create an adoption portfolio that will show prospective birth families why you are the perfect adoptive parent for their child?

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.

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For children growing up in foster care, the role of their birth parents is an important factor in the success of their long-term placements.

Few children nowadays are placed for adoption with no form of contact planned with birth relatives and it has become common professional practice to advocate direct rather than indirect contact.

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

How can adoptive parents and their teenagers navigate the challenges of the adolescent years?

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

Foster parenting is often seen as a calling and a mission of love.

This comprehensive text makes an important contribution to the study of surrogacy, developing a novel theoretical framework through which to understand the broader social contexts as well as individual decisions at play within surrogacy arrangements.

This book apprises readers of the present conditions of former and emancipated foster youth, provides evidence-based best practices regarding their experiences, and proposes new policies for ensuring better outcomes for these children upon discharge from foster care.

Mariana the Mermaid is not like the other mermaids.

I love you, no matter what.

Children are frequently cared for by relatives and friends when parents, for whatever reason, are unable to care for their children themselves.

Young people who leave care with few or no educational qualifications are at very high risk of social exclusion in adulthood.

Featuring a spectrum of families from diverse backgrounds, this book reveals the joys and challenges of adoptive and foster parenting.

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

The Open Adoption Experience has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

Emotions can be complicated at the best of times.

The very notions of childhood and youth are intimately connected to contemporary norms, practices and spaces of care, caring and care-giving.

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Sunday Times bestselling author and foster carer Casey Watson's inspiring memoirs Mummy's Little Helper and Little Prisoners combined in a single volume with her deeply moving latest title Breaking the Silence, about two troubled little boys who both desperately need a loving home, and find comfort and friendship in the most unlikely of places.

In recent decades, there have been many changes to adoption law and practice, such as a sharp decline in the voluntary relinquishment of children, an increase in the number consigned to public care, and an abrupt decrease in those made available on an intercountry basis.

This accessible resource contains therapeutic stories and guidance for adults who are supporting young people aged 10-14 in foster, adoptive or kinship families.

Prior to 1990, fewer than five percent of domestic infant adoptions were open.

MAY 2014.

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

Helping Foster Children In School explores the challenges that foster children face in schools and offers positive and practical guidance tailored to help the parents, teachers and social workers supporting them.

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

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

Packed full of great ideas for fun games and activities, this book encourages positive attachments between a parent or carer and their child.

Babies and young children who have experienced early adversity miss out on good, nurturing relationships, and the sensorimotor development that goes along with them.