Assessing Adoptive And Foster Parents
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Author | : David Howe |
Publisher | : Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2015-04-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 085700915X |
Assessing prospective adoptive and foster parents is an extremely complex task, and one that happens within a pressurised time frame. Currently, assessments draw substantially on interviews with prospective adopters and foster carers. Too often, they generate a lot of information but lack meaningful analysis and understanding of parenting capacity. Children with histories of trauma, loss and hurt need to join families in which parents exhibit the ability to be good at relationships, able to manage their own stress and bond with the child in their care. In this book, leading experts including Dan Hughes, Jonathan Baylin, Kim Golding and Julie Selwyn combine the latest findings from neuroscience with research on what makes good assessments. Together, they provide guidance and recommend tools for making thorough, analytical and effective assessments which will ensure the best possible chance of placement success. Assessing Adoptive and Foster Parents is an invaluable source of knowledge and practice guidance for social workers undertaking assessments of parenting capacity of children who have experienced neglect or trauma.
Author | : Gerald P. Mallon |
Publisher | : CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America) |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : |
This book explores the myths and prejudices that influence attitudes towards lesbians and gay men as parents.It also suggests ways that social workers can more effectively support lesbian and gay adopters and foster parents.
Author | : James Dickerson |
Publisher | : N A S W Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Adoptive parents |
ISBN | : 9780871014153 |
Author | : Julia Davis |
Publisher | : Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2014-10-21 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0857008315 |
The ideal first book for prospective adopters. When you decide to adopt a child, you might assume that all the important work begins when the child comes to live with you. In fact the preparation stage before is crucial in ensuring that the adopted child will arrive to a safe and secure family. Preparing for Adoption provides clear advice on how to prepare for you adoptive child and create a strong foundation for a healthy and loving relationship. Julia Davis explains how many different factors can shape preparations for adoption, such as finding out about your child's history and using this information to establish a family environment which will meet your child's specific attachment needs. There is also advice on how to prepare your home to create a sense of safety for your child and how to prepare your family to support you as adoptive parents. Primarily for adopters, foster carers and professionals supporting adopters, this book offers ideas and strategies to help parents prepare a happy and settled home for children before their arrival and ways to parent them in the early days of becoming a family that addresses their attachment needs.
Author | : Gillian Schofield |
Publisher | : British Association for Adoption and Fostering (Ba |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Adopted children |
ISBN | : 9781903699966 |
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.
Author | : Joanne Alper |
Publisher | : Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2016-12-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1784504564 |
Assessing prospective adoptive parents, foster carers, kinship carers and special guardians is an extremely complex task, and one that happens within a pressurized time frame. Currently, assessments draw substantially on interviews, which can generate a lot of information but little analysis to enable professionals to establish a meaningful understanding of parenting capacity. Children with histories of trauma, loss and hurt need to join families in which parents exhibit the ability to be good at relationships, are able to manage their own stress and bond with the child in their care. Now fully updated and expanded to cover the assessment of kinship carers and special guardians, this book combines the latest findings from neuroscience with research on what makes good assessments and provides guidance and tools for making thorough, analytical and effective assessments. With contributions from leading experts including Dan Hughes, Jonathan Baylin, Kim Golding and Julie Selwyn, it will provide you with the information you need to ensure the best possible chance of placement success.
Author | : Christopher J. Alexander |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Adoptive parents |
ISBN | : |
A practical guide for adoptive, foster, and treatment foster parents. Written by a child psychologist who specializes in adoption, foster care, and attachment. There is extensive coverage of mental health, counseling, and attachment issues.
Author | : Krish Kandiah |
Publisher | : Hodder & Stoughton |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2013-03-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1444745328 |
Tying in to a nationwide joint campaign by the Evangelical Alliance and Care for the Family, Krish Kandiah wants us all to take seriously Jesus's call to 'suffer the little children' by engaging with the needs of the many thousands of children up and down the country who are in care and whom the church could and should be helping. Krish and his wife Miriam have adopted and fostered children themselves and their experience - and that of the many others in this book - is very different from the popular myth which suggests social services seek to prevent Christians from getting involved. Krish argues that whatever the state's stance may be, it is a part of our calling as God's church to get involved where it's hardest, and to help these children out of the tough realities they find themselves in. Filled with stories from people who have adopted or were adopted themselves, alongside practical advice on how it all works and the challenges that will come, this book makes a compelling case that the church can and must make a difference in these children's lives, and asks us all to consider our response.
Author | : Pat Beesley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Adoption |
ISBN | : 9781907585036 |
Making Good Assessments is a practical resource guide which is both creative and imaginative in its format. It has been designed to help agencies and family-finding services develop their own assessment programmes. It will help to provide knowledge and understanding to underpin assessments; it can be used flexibly within group settings, individual or family discussion; it fits with current thinking and philosophy but allows scope for development; and provides a broad-based foundation that can be built upon for ongoing work.
Author | : Mitchell Rosenwald |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2010-03-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0231519354 |
This book is the first to provide strategies for effective advocacy and placement within the foster care and kinship care systems. It also takes a rare look at the dynamics of the foster and kinship relationship, not just among children and the agency workers and service providers who intervene on their behalf, but also between children and those who take in and care for them as permanency develops. Drawing on their experience interacting with and writing about the institution of foster care, Mitchell Rosenwald and Beth N. Riley have composed a unique text that helps practitioners, foster parents, and relative caregivers realize successful transitions for youth, especially considering the traumas these children may suffer both before and after placement. Advocating for a child's best interests must begin early and remain consistent throughout assignment and adjustment. For practitioners, Rosenwald and Riley emphasize the best techniques for assessing a family's capabilities and for guiding families through the challenges of foster care. Part one details the steps potential foster parents and kinship caregivers must take, with the assistance of practitioners, to prepare themselves for placement. Part two describes tactics for successful advocacy within the court system, social service agencies, schools, and the medical and mental health establishments. Part three describes how to lobby for change at the agency and legislative levels, as well as within a given community. The authors illustrate recommendations through real-life scenarios and devote an entire chapter to brokering positive partnerships among practitioners, families, and other teams working to protect and transition children.