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Nurturing Attachments combines the experience and wisdom of parents and carers with that of professionals to provide support and practical guidance for foster and adoptive parents looking after children with insecure attachment relationships.
2007, Paperback: £17.99/ $34.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-614-2, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 240pp
Keywords: adoption, attachment, carers, child protection, child psychology, children, families, fostering, parenting, social care, social work
Restorative justice is an innovative approach to addressing conflict and bullying, as well as disruptive, challenging and criminal behaviour. A restorative approach in a care setting shifts the emphasis from managing and responding to anti-social behaviour to the building, nurturing and repairing of relationships, and encourages the young person to accept responsibility and put things right. more »
2009, Paperback: £29.99/ $49.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-981-5, 279.4mm x 216mm / 11in x 8.5in, 224pp
Keywords: adoption, children, fostering, residential care, restorative justice
This book presents a short and accessible introduction to what 'attachment' means and how to recognise attachment disorders in children.
The author explains how complex problems in childhood may stem from the parent-child relationship during a child's early formative years, and later from the child's engagement with the broader social world. It explores the mindset of difficult and... more »
2009, Paperback: £12.99/ $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-957-0, 216mm x 138mm / 8.5in x 5.5in, 112pp
Keywords: adoption, attachment, child psychiatry, child psychology, children, counselling, education, educational psychology, fostering, mental health, parenting, psychiatry, psychology, social work
Quality Matters in Children's Services brings together authoritative research to explore critical concerns for those working with vulnerable children, young people and their families. Subjects covered include reunification, stability and wellbeing, kinship care, educating vulnerable young people, child protection, domestic violence and parental substance misuse, the participation of disabled... more »
2009, Paperback: £19.99/ $36.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-926-6, 297mm x 210mm / 11in x 8.5in, 160pp
Keywords: adoption, child protection, children, education, families, fostering, health care, social policy, social work
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.
This clear and concise book shows a new family-friendly way to compile a Life Story Book that promotes a sense of permanency for the child, and encourages attachments within the adoptive... more »
2009, Paperback: £14.99/ $22.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-953-2, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 96pp
Keywords: adoption, child protection, children, children's rights, creative therapies, emotions, families, fostering, safeguarding children, social stories, social work
The overwhelming majority of children and young people in care today are fostered, but for some this only increases their problems through untreated trauma, ill-judged placements, poorly supported foster carers
and multiple moves. more »
2009, Paperback: £15.99/ $34.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-327-1, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 160pp
Keywords: adoption, children, counselling, fostering, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy
' …invaluable in providing vivid illustrations of the strengths and needs of young parents who have been 'looked after' and, therefore of their children at the start of their lives. It illuminates policy and practice implications and points the way forward to what needs to be done to ameliorate their lives. Throughout, it presents its research in an accessible style and measured tone that... more »
2008, Paperback: £19.99/ $39.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-525-1, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 192pp
Keywords: adoption, child protection, fostering, parenting, social care, social work
Educational achievements for children in care are significantly poorer than for the general school population. This book explores why this is and how to enable children in care to succeed in the classroom. more »
2008, Paperback: £25.00/ $49.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-681-4, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 224pp
Keywords: adoption, child protection, education, fostering, social policy, special education
It costs more to place a child in the care of a local authority than it does to send a child to a top boarding school, and there are substantial variations in costs both between and within authorities. more »
2008, Hardback: £39.99/ $79.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-273-1, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 288pp
Keywords: adoption, fostering, social policy, social work
Why was I abandoned?
Why did my parents adopt me?
What if I want to meet my biological parents?
Children who find out they are adopted have many questions that are difficult for a parent to answer. This book explores children's thoughts and feelings and provides parents with guidance on how to respond to difficult questions. more »
2008, Paperback: £9.99/ $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-671-5, 216mm x 138mm / 8.5in x 5.5in, 112pp
Keywords: adoption, child protection, child psychology, children, counselling, education, emotions, families, fostering, parenting, social work
Children are frequently cared for by relatives and friends when parents, for whatever reason, are unable to care for their children themselves. Yet there has been very little information about how well children do when placed with kin or how safe they are in these placements. more »
2008, Paperback: £25.00/ $45.00
ISBN: 978-1-84310-631-9, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 256pp
Keywords: adoption, child protection, fostering, social policy, social work
The transition from care into adulthood is a difficult step for any young person, but young people leaving care have a high risk of social exclusion, both in terms of material disadvantage and marginalisation. more »
2008, Hardback: £39.99/ $85.00
ISBN: 978-1-84310-610-4, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 320pp
Keywords: adoption, child protection, counselling, fostering, social care, social policy, social work
`…all those involved in the adoption of children, old hands and new, will be stimulated and encouraged by this infectious read.'
- from the Foreword by David Howe, Dean of the School of Social Work and Psychosocial Sciences, University of East Anglia more »
2008, Paperback: £12.99/ $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-620-3, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 216pp
Keywords: adoption, child protection, child psychology, children, counselling, families, fostering, looked after children, parenting, social work
This book shows how carefully planned and assessed treatment can help traumatized children. It outlines how to set up a process for measuring a child's progress towards recovery. Uniquely, the book describes a practical outcomes-based approach that can be provided by an integrated multi-disciplinary team. more »
2007, Paperback: £15.99/ $27.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-330-1, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 160pp
Keywords: adoption, challenging behaviour, child protection, child psychology, children, counselling, emotions, fostering, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, social care, social work, trauma
Nurturing Attachments combines the experience and wisdom of parents and carers with that of professionals to provide support and practical guidance for foster and adoptive parents looking after children with insecure attachment relationships. more »
2007, Paperback: £17.99/ $34.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-614-2, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 240pp
Keywords: adoption, attachment, carers, child protection, child psychology, children, families, fostering, parenting, social care, social work
Children in public care complain that they have too many placements. Professionals agree but little is known about the reasons for this instability or how it affects different groups of children. The Pursuit of Permanence explores this core issue for children's services. more »
2007, Paperback: £29.99/ $60.00
ISBN: 978-1-84310-595-4, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 320pp
Keywords: adoption, child protection, children, families, fostering, looked after children, social policy, social work
