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Adoption and the Care of Children
Adoption is out of favour. Numbers have fallen dramatically, and baby adoptions have become rare events. Recent trends in family law make it increasingly unlikely that children will ever be declared free to be adopted, while would-be adopters are discouraged by a series of obstacles and abjections. Consequently children who are unable to live with their natural parents are likely to spend long periods - possibly their entire childhoods - 'in care'. This can entail years of to-ing and fro-ing between children's homes, foster parents, and repeated attempts to re-unite them with neglectful and often abusive parents. The results for the children concerned are extremely poor, and all the evidence...
Growing Up in Foster Care
Long-term foster care is one of the best kept secrets of the child care system. It is rarely mentioned as a positive option yet there is a significant group of vulnerable looked after children for whom growing up in a long-term foster family is their best chance of a secure family life. this new study looks at a group of 58 children under the age of 12 recently placed in long-term foster families. It provides a fascinating insight into their lives, their birth families, foster families and the system of social work practice that will define their future.
Adopting a Child
This fully updated, best-selling beginners guide is the perfect book for anyone who has ever thought of adopting a child, helping to explain the complicated process involved when finding new families for children. Using a question and answer format, it describes in plain English why children need adoption, the kinds of children who are looking for new families, the reasons why people adopt and what sort of people adoption agencies are looking for and why. Includes legal information, further reading suggestions and a comprehensive list of agencies throughout the UK.
Delivering Foster Care
Delivering Foster Care gives an informed picture of who fosters children, why and for how long, and the rewards and difficulties experienced. It also looks at the issues involved in developing a fostering policy and the problems faced by local authorities.
Adoption
This title focuses on the social processes relating to adoption. The book includes real case studies as examples.
Adoption with Contact
Implications for Policy and Practice,The issue of contact between the child and members,of the birth family has gained particular,prominence in within the UK in recent years though,it is still a relatively new and experimental,practice. This work makes a significant,contribution to the literature on the subject by,examining the experience of adoption in a number,of cases paying particular attention to the,implications for the adopted child, adoptive,parents and birth parents.
Life Story Work with Children who are Fostered Or Adopted
The number of traumatized children in foster care and adoptive families is on the rise every year. In times like these, social work practitioners rarely have sufficient time to plan out each of their sessions. This book makes it possible. Life Story Work with Children who are Fostered or Adopted: Creative Activites and Ideas is a brief and accessible resource guide to life story work. Focused on methods and activities that have been tried and tested by social workers and therapists, these are simple activities that require minimal resources that range from how to build the foundation to Life Story Work to boosting a child's self-esteem and identity. The chapters are categorized in a way that makes it easy for the practitioner to identify which method will be appropriate for the stage of the work they are undertaking. This book will be a vital resource for social workers, foster caregivers, students and any frontline practitioner involved in working with traumatized children.
After Adoption
Working with Adoptive Families
