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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. It emphasises the
common strengths children with ASD have, as well as offering
strategies for any behavioural issues that are likely to arise,
highlighting how these can be exacerbated by the care system and
adoption process. The first part of the book looks at the different
aspects of autism and the challenges it can pose for children and
parents, providing strategies for managing difficulties at home and
at school, using social stories, and reducing sensory input in a
child's environment. The second part looks at issues that arise for
fostered or adopted children, including placement transitions,
contact, and explaining the past. It concludes with helping parents
to think about self-care.
This book, which updates and expands the third edition published by
Springer in 2015, explains, compares and evaluates the social and
legal functions of adoption within a range of selected
jurisdictions and on an international basis. From the standpoint of
the development of adoption in England & Wales, and the changes
currently taking place there, it considers the process as it has
evolved in other countries. It also identifies themes of
commonality and difference in the experience of adoption in a
common law context, comparing and contrasting this with the
experience under civil law and in Islamic countries and with that
of indigenous people. This book includes new chapters examining
adoption in Russia, Korea and Romania. Further, it uses the
international conventions and the associated ECtHR case law to
benchmark developments in national law, policy and practice and to
facilitate a cross-cultural comparative analysis.
Nurturing Attachments Training Resource is a complete group-work
programme containing everything you need to run training and
support sessions for adoptive parents and foster or kinship carers.
Based on attachment theory and developed by expert author and
trainer Kim Golding, this rich resource provides an authoritative
set of ideas for therapeutically parenting children along with all
the guidance you will need to implement the training. The training
resource includes theoretical content and process notes for
facilitators, and a range of activities supported by online
downloadable content with photocopiable reflective diary sheets,
activity sheets and handouts. It is structured into 3 modules with
6 sessions per module. Module 1: Provides an understanding of
attachment theory, patterns of attachment and an introduction to
therapeutic parenting. Module 2: Introduces the House Model of
Parenting, providing guidance on how to help the children
experience the family as a secure base. Module 3: Continues
exploring the House Model of Parenting, with consideration of how
parents can both build a relationship with the children and manage
their behaviour. This will be an invaluable resource and one-stop
guide for any professionals involved in training foster carers and
adoptive parents, as well as residential child care workers and
kinship carers.
'A dark, gritty, and compulsive read' Daily Express
Nineteen-year-old Sally is battered and bruised, and lying in the
hospital once again. It's nothing new, it's happened before and
it'll happen again. But when DI Laura Kesey introduces Sally to a
new social worker, she finds hope at a local women's domestic
violence refuge, where she's surrounded by women just like her. But
then a man is mowed down in a hit and run. Soon a second suspicious
death follows. Both deaths link back to the refuge. Has Sally found
a safe place or a new danger? *Please note this is a re-release of
The Sisters*
Foundations for Attachment Training Resource is a six-session
programme to help parents and carers to nurture attachments with
their child. It is designed specifically for those caring for
children whose capacity to emotionally connect has been compromised
as a result of attachment problems, trauma, and loss or separation.
Informed by attachment theory and Dyadic Developmental
Psychotherapy (DDP), it consists of three core modules: *
Understanding Challenges of Parenting * Therapeutic Parenting *
Looking After Self It includes relevant theory and process notes
for trainers, and a range of activities supported by electronic
resources with downloadable activity sheets and handouts. This is a
complete resource containing everything you need to run the
sessions, and is perfect for any professionals involved in training
foster carers, adoptive parents and kinship carers.
The prospect of adopting a child can be both exciting and
overwhelming. There are many different types of adoption and
choices to be made in pursuing an adoption. Your options for
adoption will depend on the needs and interests of an adoptable
child or youth as well as what is important to your family. These
factors may include your flexibility around the characteristics of
the child you wish to adopt, your feelings about contact with birth
family members, your resources, and how long you are willing to
wait for your child. This book discusses the options available for
different types of families and provides guidance for adopting a
child.
Numerous reasons cause adopted teenagers to reconnect with their
birth family via Facebook, creating new challenges for adoption
today and tomorrow. Incorporating theory, practice, anecdotes,
metaphors, diagrams, models and case studies, this accessible book,
written by an experienced adopter, clearly explains these complex
issues. It maps connections between trauma, child development,
grief, adolescence, contact, truth telling and parenting styles;
offering fresh perspectives and strategies for parents and
professionals.
Positive and practical, this guide is designed to offer a route to
recovery from grief and loss after adoption or long-term foster
care. Children growing up in adoptive families or foster care often
have complicated feelings about the loss of their birth parents -
feelings which become all the more complex as they gain
independence and become young adults, and which can endure
throughout their lives. Common life events such as entering new
relationships, building a family or losing a loved one can give
rise to difficult questions about their own childhood and identity.
In this book, Renee Wolfs provides an accessible explanation of the
feelings of loss and grief commonly experienced by adults who grew
up in adoptive families or foster care, and how debilitating they
can be. She provides grounded advice and strategies to aid recovery
and provides the reader with a useful tool: The Circle of
Connecting. The Circle provides strategies for healing from loss,
spanning all seven elements of your life: your body, mind, heart,
environment, past, present and future. This book is essential
reading for older teens and adults who need help in addressing
feelings of grief and loss, as well as those who support them
including adoptive and foster parents, social workers, counsellors
and therapists.
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. This book provides a comprehensive account of why
this shocking discrepancy exists and outlines ways to address the
imbalance. Drawing extensively on a substantial three-year long
European Union funded research project led by the authors, this
book examines the participation of young people in care in further
and higher education in Europe. It provides a historical and
legislative overview of the topic and in-depth national case
studies look at the situation in England, Denmark, Sweden, Spain
and Hungary. The authors set out clearly what we can learn from
these cross-national comparisons and how to create more equal
opportunities for children and young people in care. This important
book will be essential reading for researchers and policy makers
working on child welfare or young people in care, including
government and local authority policy-makers, managers of
children's and education services, school governors, and academics
working in the fields of education, sociology, psychology, social
work and social policy.
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.
Featuring contributions from distinguished international
contributors, it critically examines current research and
innovative practice and addresses the key questions: how does it
work, what are its critical "active ingredients" and does it
represent value for money? The book covers a broad spectrum of
established and emerging approaches pioneered around with world,
with contributors from the USA, Canada, Scandinavia, Spain,
Australia, Israel and the UK offering a mix of practice and
research exemplars. The book also looks at the research relating to
critical issues for child welfare service providers: the best time
to refer children to residential care, how children can be helped
to make the transition into care, the characteristics of children
entering and exiting care, strategies for engaging families as
partners, how the substantial cost of providing intensive is best
measured against outcomes, and what research and development
challenges will allow therapeutic residential care to be rigorously
compared with its evidence-based community-centered alternatives.
Importantly, the volume also outlines how to set up and implement
intensive child welfare services, considering how transferable they
are, how to measure success and value for money, and the training
protocols and staffing needed to ensure that a programme is
effective. This comprehensive volume will enable child welfare
professionals, researchers and policymakers to develop a refined
understanding of the potential of therapeutic residential care, and
to identify the highest and best uses of this intensive and
specialized intervention.
With essays by well-known adoption practitioners and researchers
who source empirical research and practical knowledge, this volume
addresses key developmental, cultural, health, and behavioral
issues in the transracial and international adoption process and
provides recommendations for avoiding fraud and techniques for
navigating domestic and foreign adoption laws. The text details the
history, policy, and service requirements relating to white,
African American, Asian American, Latino and Mexican American, and
Native American children and adoptive families. It addresses
specific problems faced by adoptive families with children and
youth from China, Russia, Ethiopia, India, Korea, and Guatemala,
and offers targeted guidance on ethnic identity formation, trauma,
mental health treatment, and the challenges of gay or lesbian
adoptions
'A dark, gritty, and compulsive read' Daily Express
Nineteen-year-old Sally is battered and bruised, and lying in the
hospital once again. It's nothing new, it's happened before and
it'll happen again. But when DI Laura Kesey introduces Sally to a
new social worker, she finds hope at a local women's domestic
violence refuge, where she's surrounded by women just like her. But
then a man is mowed down in a hit and run. Soon a second suspicious
death follows. Both deaths link back to the refuge. Has Sally found
a safe place or a new danger? *Please note this is a re-release of
The Sisters*
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. This book explores what attachment,
neuroscience and trauma tell us about how contact affects children,
and shows how poorly executed contact can be unhelpful or even
harmful to the child. Assessment frameworks are provided which take
the child's developmental needs into account. The authors also
outline a model for managing and planning contact to make it more
purposeful and increase its potential for therapeutic benefit. The
book covers the challenges presented by the internet for managing
contact, unique issues for children in kinship care, problems that
arise when adoptive parents separate and many other key issues for
practice. Brimming with practical advice and creative solutions,
this is an indispensable tool for social workers, contact centre
workers, and other professionals involved in contact arrangements
or the therapeutic support of fostered and adopted children.
When you decide to foster, you are faced with many difficult
decisions, dilemmas and questions: How do you navigate the daily
struggles of foster parenting? How can you nurture bonds with your
foster child who is angry, sad, and defiant? How can you prepare to
step back when it's time to let go? Foster Parenting Step-by-Step
is a concise how-to guide to fostering that summarizes what to
expect as a foster parent, and gives immediate practical solutions.
It outlines the different stages of a fostering relationship,
raising common issues encountered at each age and how to tackle
them. It also explains the impact of trauma on your child: how this
can show itself through challenging behavior and how to respond to
it. This book will provide fostering parents with the skills and
knowledge to support the needs of the children in foster care. It
will be invaluable not just to foster parents but also to those
professionals supporting foster placements.
Many people say being a parent is the toughest job there is. John
DeGarmo, foster and adoptive parent, tells us just how tough it can
be, having parented over 40 children. At times he and his wife,
Kelly, have cared for up to nine children at a time, many with
severe trauma and learning difficulties. Love and Mayhem is an
honest and open account of the struggles, sadness and joy that
comes with the job of being a parent to a traumatized child. From
the sleepless nights with babies withdrawing from drug-addiction,
to the heartbreak when a child moves on to another home, and the
loving chaos that comes with a large and blended family, John
DeGarmo fights for the many children who have come through his
home. Ideal for foster families, general readers, fostering
agencies and social workers who are looking for a true to life
memoir of what it really is to be a foster parent.
Kinship care - the care of children by grandparents, other
relatives or friends - is a major part of foster care, yet there
are distinct issues that arise in care involving family rather than
'stranger' foster carers. This book takes an in-depth look at what
goes on 'inside' kinship care. It explores the dynamics and
relationships between family members that are involved in kinship
care, including mothers, grandparents, siblings and the wider
family. Chapters also discuss issues such as safeguarding,
assessment, therapy, encouraging permanence, placement breakdown,
support groups, and cultural issues. The final part of the book
looks at kinship care from an international perspective, with
examples from New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and the United
States. Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives and with
contributions from different branches of kinship care, this book
provides an invaluable overview of the issues involved and how to
provide effective support. It will be essential reading for all
those working in the kinship care field, including social workers,
therapists, counsellors, psychologists and family lawyers.
Foster children are more likely than other children to be involved
in risky activities online due to backgrounds of neglect and abuse,
an absence of supportive adults, lower self-esteem, and greater
exposure to drugs and alcohol. Covering all the dangers of online
technology that your foster child might encounter, from
cyberbullying and "sexting", to child grooming and online hoaxes,
this book pays particular attention to dangers unique to foster
families, such as the difficulties internet access poses for
maintaining formal arrangements for contact with birth families.
DeGarmo equips foster parents and professionals with strategies to
keep foster children safe online, giving tips on establishing
expectations for internet usage, advice on how to prevent
inappropriate contact and protect personal information, and
explaining the importance of "netiquette". An indispensable guide
to negotiating online dangers, this is required reading for all
foster families as well as residential child care workers, social
workers and other professionals working with children in care.
Fostering is vitally important: the majority of looked after
children are fostered, yet these children are often left out of the
agenda and their voices are not heard. This book sets out a
child-centred approach to foster care which argues against thinking
about children purely from a psychological perspective and instead
places children's views, rights and needs at the centre of care. It
sets out the theory behind working in partnership with children who
are fostered, and discusses children's views about fostering
systems and living with foster carers. The book then outlines how
to put the theory into practice, offering models, processes and
best practice examples. Practical advice is given on establishing
effective communication and good working relationships between
practitioners, carers and foster children. This insightful book
aims to promote better services and outcomes for fostered children,
and will be essential reading for social work practitioners and
students.
UNIVERSAL STORIES OF LONGING AND BELONGING Our quest for origin
and, by extension, identity is universal to the human experience.
For the twenty-five contributors to "Somebody's Child," the topic
of adoption is not--and perhaps never can be--a neutral issue. With
unique courage, each of them discusses their experience of the
adoption process. Some share stories of heartbreak; others have
discovered joy; some have searched for closure. "Somebody's Child"
captures the many unforgettable faces and voices of adoption. The
third book in a series of anthologies about the
twenty-first-century family, "Somebody's Child" follows "Nobody's
Mother" and "Nobody's Father," two essay collections from childless
adults on parenthood, family and choices. Together, these three
books challenge readers to reexamine traditional definitions of the
concept of "family."
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. This book examines
the long-term consequences of this decision for children who
entered public care for abuse or neglect. It compares the
experiences and progress of children who remained in care or
returned to their birth families up to four years after the
decision was taken. It covers how the decision is made, the factors
taken into account when making it and provides important
suggestions for effective decision-making. It compares the progress
made by the children in relation to their safety, stability and
emotional well-being. The book demonstrates that, contrary to
common belief, long-term care can be a positive option for
maltreated children. This book provides important messages for
reunification policy and practice in relation to maltreated
children. It will be essential reading for social work
practitioners, researchers and policy makers.
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 outlines how
therapeutic stories can help children to heal and develop healthy
attachments. With a thorough theoretical grounding, the book
demonstrates how to create therapeutic stories that improve
relationships, heal past trauma, and change problem behaviour. The
story of a fictional family that develops its own narratives to
help their adopted child heal illustrates the techniques. This
second edition includes updated research on attachment, trauma and
the developmental process; a new chapter on parental attunement and
regulation; and a new chapter with full length samples of a variety
of narrative types. The gentle and non-intrusive techniques in this
book will be highly beneficial for children with attachment
difficulties. This guide will be an invaluable resource for parents
of adopted children and the professionals working with them.
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