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Attachment is at the heart of family life and adoption. Schifield and Beek trace the pathways of secure and insecure patterns of attachment from birth to adulthood, exploring the impact of past experiences of abuse, neglect and separation on children's behaviour in foster and adoptive families. They explain from an attachment perspective the dimensions of parenting that are associated with helping children to feel more secure and fulfil their potential in the family - with peers, at school and in the community.
Children who are looked after or adopted may experience varieties of learning difficulties that are caused by the trauma and disruptive relationships that marked their early lives. This book provides authoritative, clinical guidance for carers and adopters on why these learning difficulties can occur and what can be done about them. In straightforward language, it explains how children's difficult early experiences can affect their learning; the importance of play to being able to learn; how to understand what the child is experiencing and why, and how carers and parents can help.
Written for social workers of looked after children who are, or may be, placed for adoption in England, this guide takes the reader through the various stages, from planning adoption for a child through to contributing to the court report for the adoption order. It focuses on what legislation and standards require to be done; it points to useful forms and templates; it describes good practice and makes suggestions for further reading; and it aims to answer questions which social workers may have when they get involved in placing a child for adoption.
Unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people form a small but significant part of the UK looked after children population. Their circumstances and needs are complex and as a group they require careful and sensitive assessment, planning and placement. This extensive study reveals ongoing changes in the way in which unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people are looked after, explores the main features of the fostering task, offers insights into how young people and foster carers felt about their placements and outlines the key implications for policy and practice.
Starting from the premise that providing a secure base is key to the development of secure attachment in children, this study follows up the group of children first met in Growing Up in Foster Care (BAAF, 2000). This book movingly describes how many of the children were beginning to relinquish some of their more troubled and distressing behaviour and starting to accept the possibility that they were loved and lovable. Extensive use of first-hand accoutns from the children and carers gives richness and depth to a book which will inspire all who read it.
Provides everything social work practitioners, managers and all those involved in adoption need to know to enable adoption practice to be brought into line with the new standards, regulations and statutory guidance.
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