Facilitating meaningful contact in adoption and fostering :
[Book]
a trauma-informed approach to planning, assessing and good practice /
Louis Sydney, Elsie Price and Adoptionplus.
Philadelphia :
Jessica Kingsley Publishers,
2014.
1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- About adoptionplus -- Introduction: what is contact and what is it for? -- How to facilitate contact : a structured process -- Understanding the significance of attachment and neuroscience for baby and toddler contact -- Contact during the transition from care order to permanency -- Contact when moving from foster care into adoption -- Letterbox contact -- By rachel staff -- Contact using video messages -- Sibling relationships and facilitating sibling contact -- Contact for adopted children with adoptive parents who have separated or divorced -- Where contact is not possible : contact for children who are not able to meet their birth parents or family -- Contact with young people : the long shadow of adoption -- Contact in kinship care -- Endnotes -- Index.
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How can contact in adoption and fostering be tailored to the individual child? This book provides assessment frameworks that reflect what attachment, neuroscience and trauma tell us about children's needs. The authors outline a model for managing contact to make it more purposeful and increase its potential for therapeutic benefit.
OverDrive, Inc.
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Facilitating meaningful contact in adoption and fostering
9781849055086
Adoption.
Birthparents.
Child development.
Foster parents.
Adoption.
Birthparents.
Child development.
Foster parents.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Services & Welfare.