Adoption and fostering

Many people say being a parent is the toughest job there is.

America's foster care system has a noble goal-to care for children that for various reasons can no longer be cared for by their families-but years of inattention and inadequate funding have left many foster youth in a precarious state.

What happens to looked-after children in the longer term?

This important book focuses on the critical role of educational achievement for the wellbeing and success of vulnerable youth in adulthood.

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.

This book presents an innovative relational and community based therapeutic model to ensure children's essential attachment needs are catered for in intensive mental health care.

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.

Most children who are fostered or adopted have some level of contact with their birth family -- whether face-to-face or by letter -- yet most of the time the psychological impact of contact on the child isn't considered.

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

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

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

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.

It is a story that moves us to tears.

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Since the end of the Korean War, an estimated 200,000 children from South Korea have been adopted into white families in North America, Europe, and Australia.

Caleb invites you on a journey to learn about attachment and trauma in this interactive story and workbook intended for children and the adults who support them.

The Definitive Guide to Theraplay(R) for Practitioners, officially endorsed by the Theraplay(R) InstituteTheraplay is an intervention that focuses on enhancing the connection, trust and joy between a child and a parent.

Meet Lucie - she is a rambunctious, inquisitive, seven-year-old girl who was adopted!

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.

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

"e;Mitch Albom has done it again with this moving memoir of love and loss.

Many adopted or foster children have complex, troubling, often painful pasts.

In a deep dark forest, Little Coyote grows up with a tough gang of big strong coyotes.

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

Can adoptive homes be found for non-white children?

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.

Andy Pithouse and Alyson Rees use original research to identify key ingredients needed to help create successful foster placements and help prevent placement breakdown.

Children who have experienced trauma, loss or separation early in life need more than just special care and attention; they need to be parented with love and security in a way that allows them to heal and rebuild emotional bonds.

Divided into 15 chapters, this book provides the reader with an insight into certain representations of mothers and motherhood in history and today's societies in some areas of the world, notably in Britain and Asia.

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Attaching in Adoption is a comprehensive guide for prospective and actual adoptive parents on how to understand and care for their adopted child and promote healthy attachment.

In this poignant book, Lisa Cherry brings together a collection of candid and personal reflections on the care system in the UK, offering alternative ways of thinking about the care experience, supporting better ways of working, and providing justification for a trauma-informed lens to be applied to all forms of work with those in care.

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.

Rose Rockchild advocate, educator, and mother of ten-plus children, including comedian Chris Rockshares her heartfelt and no-nonsense advice on parentingUber-mom Rose Rock raised ten children and seventeen foster children.

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Life story work is one of the key therapeutic approaches to working with adopted or fostered children.

Helping vulnerable children and young people to build protective behaviours is the key to keeping them safe.

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.

Does your child struggle to know how their body is feeling?

Trauma can have a significant impact on the stability of a child's development and can put additional pressures on the education staff working with them.

Using Stories to Build Bridges with Traumatized Children is full of creative ideas for how you can use stories therapeutically with children in counselling, life story work or direct work.

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.

'Necessary and illuminating' Times Literary Supplement'A writer of genuine accomplishment' Good Book GuideA story of adoption and queer parenting from the award-winning author of The Spring of Kasper Meier, The Other Hoffmann Sister and An Honest ManI'm calling because we have a little boy, four weeks old, who needs a family.

Written for busy foster carers and adoptive parents, this book provides a concise introduction to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and how to support a child with a diagnosis.

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Children who have encountered trauma early in life can experience real differences in their social and cognitive development.

Because of their previous damaging experiences, many children and young people enter the care system having already developed emotional problems or at a greater risk of developing them.

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