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  • Assessing Adoptive Parents, Foster Carers and Kinship Carers, Second Edition

    Improving Analysis and Understanding of Parenting Capacity

    by Julie Selwyn, Ben Gurney-Smith, Dan Hughes, Jon Baylin, Ailsa Edwards, Kim S. Golding ...
    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 ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • To the End of June

    The Intimate Life of American Foster Care

    by Cris Beam ...
    A New York Times Notable Book that "casts a searing eye on the labyrinth that is the American foster care system" (NPR's On Point).Who are the children of foster care? What, as a country, do we owe them? Cris Beam, a foster mother herself, spent five years immersed in the world of foster care looking into these questions and tracing firsthand stories. The result is To the End of June, an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Adoption Is a Family Affair!

    What Relatives and Friends Must Know

    by Patricia Irwin Johnston ...
    A child is coming â?? whether you approve or not it's time to get with the program! If someone you care about â?? a family member, co-worker, or close friend â?? has recently announced that their family will be growing through adoption, you may have questions. After all, unless you have personally experienced adoption, you may know very little about how adoption works and what it means. Are you ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Narrative Therapy

    Making Meaning, Making Lives

    by Catrina Brown, Tod Augusta-Scott ...
    "This volume is especially useful in demonstrating the effects of placing social discourses at the center of therapy. It gores many sacred cows of the larger modernist therapeutic community, but in doing so it offers new ideas for mental health professionals attempting to help their clients with common and serious life problems." —PSYCRITIQUES"This compilation is an insightful read for ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Rich in Love

    When God Rescues Messy People

    by Irene Garcia, Lissa Halls Johnson ...
    One Step of Obedience Led to ThousandsIrene and Domingo Garcia began their married lives at sixteen, already expecting a baby. Their first ten years together included Domingo’s alcoholism and abuse, and Irene’s desperate prayers for answers. Then a miracle happened: Domingo pleaded for forgiveness. As God healed their marriage, Irene and Domingo adopted a little girl. And a new season began for an ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Adopting after Infertility

    Messages from Practice, Research and Personal Experience

    by Penny Netherwood, Jenny Gwilt, Gayle Letherby, Sally Baffour, Gill Haworth, Anthea HendryKnight, Nicola Hudson, Lone Schmidt, Peter Selman, Lorraine Culley, Petra Thorn, Jan Way, Julia Feast, Olga Van den Van den Akker ...
    Around three quarters of people who turn to adoption do so because of infertility and those working in this field need information, guidance and support to assist them in the process of adoption to support the adopters and to deal with any issues that may result from infertility.Adopting after Infertility is an accessible and informative interdisciplinary book that addresses the issues that ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Counselling with Reality Therapy

    by Robert Wubbolding, John Brickell ...
    This practical resource is a follow-on from the hugely successful Counselling with Reality Therapy. The second edition provides a jargon-free and practical explanation of a theory and method of counselling which can be used in any therapeutic relationship. It presents a comprehensive, succinct and practical overview of Reality Therapy and also contains ideas which can be used by parents, spouses, ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Getting to Baby

    Creating your Family Faster, Easier and Less Expensive through Fertility, Adoption, or Surrogacy

    by Victoria Collier, Jennifer Collier ...
    THE guidebook for creating a perfect family in a non-perfect world—from budgeting and caregiving issues to managing the emotional highs and lows.Creating a family in the twenty-first century presents certain challenges: career couples are waiting longer and discovering infertility issues, and gay and lesbian couples are becoming parents through various methods. The authors share their five-year ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kinship Care

    Increasing Child Well-Being Through Practice, Policy, and Research

    by Ramona Denby, PhD, MSW, LSW, ACSW ...
    Kinship care is one of the most prevalent forms of placement used for maltreated children and youths. This book is the first to provide a systematic and theory-informed approach to preparing caregivers for the vital role they play in the lives of abused and neglected children. It presents a relationship-building framework that can be used to better achieve the three major child welfare goals: (1) ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Innovative Therapeutic Life Story Work

    Developing Trauma-Informed Practice for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults

    by Rebecca Wild, Kathy Crouch, Paula Price, Shoko Tokunaga, Joan Moore, Natalia O’Keefe, Anna-Elizabeth Mattiuzzo, Melissa Stokes, Margarida Marques, Marni Otway, Anna Fasolo, Sebastian LaSpina, Del Aulich, Elise Saunders, Soula Kontomichalos, Nadine Jay, Amanda Jones, Kendra Morris-Jacobson, Goedele A.M. De Clerck, Maria Barros, Jodie Park, Richard Rose ...
    Life story work is an approach designed to enable traumatized children to explore, question and understand the past events of their lives. It aims to secure their future by strengthening attachment with their carers and providing the opportunity to develop a healthy sense of self and a feeling of wellbeing.This new edited volume documents innovative ways in which life story work has been developed ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Transracial and Intercountry Adoptions

    Cultural Guidance for Professionals

    Edited by Rowena Fong, Ruth McRoy ...
    With essays by well-known adoption practitioners and researchers who source empirical research and practical knowledge, this volume addresses key developmental, cultural, health, and behavioral issues in the transracial and international adoption process and provides recommendations for avoiding fraud and techniques for navigating domestic and foreign adoption laws. The text details the history, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Life Work with Children Who are Fostered or Adopted

    Using Diverse Techniques in a Coordinated Approach

    by Joy Rees ...
    This new book from life work expert Joy Rees explains the value of effective and meaningful life work with children who are fostered and adopted, and how best to carry this out.This book will help social work professionals, foster carers and adopters to understand the many aspects of life work and to consider the important contributions they can all make to this task. Life work is about helping ... Read more

    $21.99 USD