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  • Trauma, Attachment and Family Permanence

    Fear Can Stop You Loving

    by Alan Burnell ...
    Fostered and adopted children can present major challenges resulting from unresolved attachment issues and early traumatic experiences. In this much-needed book, the contributors provide a variety of complementary perspectives on the needs of these children and their families, focusing on ways of integrating attachment theory and developmental psychology into effective practice.Examining multiple ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Life Story Books for Adopted and Fostered Children, Second Edition

    A Family Friendly Approach

    by Joy Rees ...
    Through words, pictures, photographs, certificates and other 'little treasures', a Life Story Book provides a detailed account of the child's early history and a chronology of their life.Fully updated, this clear and concise book shows a unique family-friendly way to compile a Life Story Book which promotes a sense of permanency for the child, and encourages attachments within new families. Joy ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Life Story Books for Adopted Children

    A Family Friendly Approach

    by Joy Rees ...
    Through words, pictures, photographs, certificates and other 'little treasures', a Life Story Book provides a detailed account of the child's early history and a chronology of their life.   This clear and concise book shows a new family-friendly way to compile a Life Story Book that promotes a sense of permanency for the child, and encourages attachments within the adoptive family. Joy Rees' ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Creative Therapies for Complex Trauma

    Helping Children and Families in Foster Care, Kinship Care or Adoption

    A burgeoning evidence base supports that arts, play and other creative therapies have potential to help children in foster care, kinship care or adoptive families to recover from complex trauma.Written by contributors working at the cutting edge of delivering effective therapeutic interventions, this innovative book describes models for working with children in foster care, kinship care or ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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  • Attachment-Based Milieus for Healing Child and Adolescent Developmental Trauma

    A Relational Approach for Use in Settings from Inpatient Psychiatry to Special Education Classrooms

    by John Stewart ...
    This book presents an innovative relational and community based therapeutic model to ensure children's essential attachment needs are catered for in intensive mental health care.The text combines an overview of theory relating to attachment and trauma before laying out a model for working with children and adolescents in an attachment-informed way. The approach applies to a diverse range of ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Foster Placements

    Why They Succeed and Why They Fail

    Series series Supporting Parents
    How can we determine success in foster placements? Based on exhaustive research, the authors discuss the primary concerns in foster placement planning, considering the high frequency of placement breakdowns, their impact on the child's behaviour and school performance, and the challenges this places on foster families.The specific needs of the foster child are given close attention in determining ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Pursuit of Permanence

    A Study of the English Child Care System

    Series series Quality Matters in Childrens Services
    Children in public care complain that they have too many placements. Professionals agree but little is known about the reasons for this instability or how it affects different groups of children. The Pursuit of Permanence explores this core issue for children's services.Based on the largest study of the English care system in recent years, the book examines the children (what they need and what ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Next Steps in Parenting the Child Who Hurts

    Tykes and Teens

    Written by an experienced adoptive parent, this clear, sensitive and practical handbook is designed to encourage and support adoptive and long-term foster parents, their children and adolescents. An adopted child may well have suffered abuse, neglect or inconsistent parenting in the past; he or she will certainly have experienced painful separations and losses. These early traumatic experiences, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward

    A Memoir

    by Mark Lukach ...
    International BestsellerA heart-wrenching, yet hopeful, memoir of a young marriage that is redefined by mental illness and affirms the power of love.Mark and Giulia’s life together began as a storybook romance. They fell in love at eighteen, married at twenty-four, and were living their dream life in San Francisco. When Giulia was twenty-seven, she suffered a terrifying and unexpected psychotic ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Adoption Experience

    Families Who Give Children a Second Chance

    by Ann Morris ...
    This is a book of real life stories of adopters which takes the reader through every stage of the adoption process starting with the moment when they decide that adoption is the right option for them to the stories of adoptees brought up by adoptive parents.In between, the book looks at all the different types of adoption that are carried out by all sorts of families from all sorts of children of ... Read more

    $25.39 USD

  • Before We Were Yours

    A Novel

    by Lisa Wingate ...
    **THE BLOCKBUSTER HIT—Over two million copies sold! A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller“Poignant, engrossing.”—People • “Lisa Wingate takes an almost unthinkable chapter in our nation’s history and weaves a tale of enduring power.”—Paula McLain**Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Damaged

    The Heartbreaking True Story of a Forgotten Child

    by Cathy Glass ...
    The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller.At just eight years old, Jodie is violent, aggressive and extremely challenging. Five carers in four months have been unable to cope, but there is one last hope: Cathy Glass…As Jodie begins to trust Cathy and make progress, shocking details about her past come to light. No one had noticed the glaring signs of abuse by those who were supposed to love her most.One ... Read more

    $12.99 USD