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Supporting Parents
Edited by David Quinton, Professor of Psychosocial Development, University of Bristol
This important series is the result of an extensive government-funded research initiative into how we can best support parents and carers as part of an integrated service for children. Underpinning current policy directives including the Children’s National Service Framework, the titles in the series are essential reading for practitioners, policy makers and academics working in child care.
Consultant editors: Carolyn Davies and Caroline Thomas, academic advisers to the Department for Children, Schools and Families
Foster Carers
Why They Stay and Why They Leave
Foster care, which can include both long- and short-term placements, is the most common way in which local authorities look after other people's children. Examining the problems and the...
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-84310-172-7, 224pp, 2004, £17.95, $34.95
Categories: Adoption and Fostering, Working with Children and Families
Foster Placements
Why They Succeed and Why They Fail
How can we determine success in foster placements? Based on exhaustive research, the authors discuss the primary concerns in foster placement planning, considering the high frequency of...
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-84310-173-4, 256pp, 2004, £19.99, $34.95
Categories: Adoption and Fostering, Working with Children and Families
Fostering Adolescents
Using interviews with over sixty fostered adolescents, their social workers and foster carers, Fostering Adolescents builds up a picture of the challenges faced by both carers and the young...
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-84310-227-4, 256pp, 2004, £19.95, $36.95
Categories: Adoption and Fostering, Working with Children and Families
Imprisoned Fathers and their Children
More than 125,000 children in the UK alone are 'sentenced' to separation from their imprisoned parents, mainly fathers. Gwyneth Boswell and Peter Wedge draw on extensive research and...
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-85302-972-1, 176pp, 2001, £19.99, $38.95
Category: Working with Children and Families
Parenting in Poor Environments
Stress, Support and Coping
With a unique focus on the effects of poverty on parenting in Britain, this book explores what professionals and policy makers can do to support families living in poverty.
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-84310-069-0, 320pp, 2002, £22.99, $44.95
Categories: Social Policy, Working with Children and Families
Supporting Parents
Messages from Research
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-84310-210-6, 272pp, 2004, £18.99, $34.95
Categories: Social Policy, Working with Children and Families
Supporting South Asian Families with a Child with Severe Disabilities
Social workers and allied professionals will find this book to be a valuable tool, highlighting ways of improving the cultural sensitivity of disability services and parental and family support....
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-84310-161-1, 208pp, 2003, £22.99, $42.95
Categories: Disability, Working with Children and Families
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