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Letters from Lockdown
Hilarious, poignant, witty and wise - Letters from Lockdown: Friendship Going Viral takes you not only inside the brilliant and quirky mind of Elaine Farmer, but also on a journey around the world. Farmer draws on her rich and varied experience to offer her reader a smorgasbord of insights into love and friendship, family, diplomacy, theology, psychology, hospitality, travel, sickness and death, all suffused with joy and more than a touch of defiance. These are letters you've always wished someone would write to you, and now she has! They might even inspire you to write some of your own.
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 people themselves, from planning and preparation for a placement to the impact of foster carer strain. It highlights overlooked factors affecting fostering placements, such as the significance of peer relationships and the role of foster carers' children, and considers which supports and services are vital in maintaining placements. Based on the findings of research commissioned by the Department of Health, this book will be essential reading for both social work policy makers and practitioners. Drawing on the first extended study to examine which factors contribute to positive outcomes for adolescent fostering, the authors address the specific parenting skills and training requirements needed by carers, and look at how to help those young people who are hardest to foster. A rich source of recommendations for social workers, policy makers and carers, this book will be invaluable for anyone involved in the fields of child welfare and child protection.
Kinship Care
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. This book compares formal kinship care to traditional foster placements in order to ascertain which children are placed with kin, in what circumstances, how well such children progress, and how often these placements disrupt. The authors explore whether children placed with family and friends fare better or worse than other foster children, what services are provided and needed, and how kin care is experienced by carers, children and social workers. This book will be essential reading for social workers, policy makers, students and all those working with looked-after children, and will enable local authorities to make informed decisions about where best to place children and the support needed by family and friend carers.
Effective Working with Neglected Children and Their Families
This book addresses an urgent need to ensure that social care interventions provide better long term outcomes for neglected children across services.
Improving Child and Family Assessments
The quality of the assessment of children in need has a significant impact on outcomes for the children concerned. Good assessment contributes to better outcomes, but poor assessment can have tragic consequences. Understanding what makes a good assessment is vital. This book brings together findings from 10 years of UK research that shed light on different aspects of child and family assessment, and examines the evidence for what works in promoting the best outcomes for children. It covers thresholds for assessment and intervention, what information should be collected in assessments, and assessments in different contexts. It also examines key aspects of practice and the factors that can hel...
Journal of a Farmer's Daughter
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Fostering Adolescents
Based on government-commissioned research and part of the Supporting Parents initiative, this book addresses each stage of the care process, from placement selection to leaving foster care. The authors consider which kinds of professional support at which stages make a difference, and the foster carer parenting skills that are crucial.
Effective Working with Neglected Children and their Families
Parents who neglect children present considerable challenges to child welfare professionals, and are often resistant to change. This book addresses an urgent need to ensure that social care interventions provide better long term outcomes for neglected children across services. Based on a substantial research study into social care provision for children, it provides a rare insight into the experiences of neglected children over a period of five years, examining the responsiveness of parents and children to social care support and their progress. Close-focus study of the decisions made on either side of services - by the children, the parents, the caregivers and related social and healthcare ...
--and the Angels Held Their Breath
'Is the Lord among us or not?' is no idle question. It comes from the painful messiness of living and strikes at the heart of human insecurity and fear as well as the need not to feel alone. But how sure are we that we really want the Lord to be among us' Do we actually want to encounter God' Or would we rather be left alone, doing what we want to do and calling that the will of God' In this new collection of sermons, Elaine Farmer explores these and other questions of what it means to be human what God's view of all this might be.
Home Truths About Child Sexual Abuse
Home Truths About Child Sexual Abuse brings together the findings of research and clinical work by leading figures in the UK and USA. It makes visible the prevalence of sexual abuse and exploitation of children by normal, ordinary, heterosexual family men, both within and outside the family. Comprehensive and multidisciplinary in approach, it covers the many different aspects of child sexual abuse including: *phenomenology *definitions and terminology *epidemiology *explanatory frameworks *concepts and theory *the contribution of radical feminism *constructs, classifications and typologies *policy *treatments *multi-disciplinary and multi-agency work *medical advice *gender issues *criminal justice. The book provides the evidence and knowledge base necessary to begin to achieve effective prevention. It offers professionals, researchers and policy makers an invaluable source of reference and an informed basis for action.
