Welcome to Fostering

A Guide to Becoming and Being a Foster Carer
Herausgeber: Elvin, Andy; Barrow, Martin

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

If you're thinking about becoming a foster carer, or have recently become one, this book is the one companion you'll need to understand the experience of fostering. This book demystifies the process of fostering; it answers all the questions you've had about how to become a foster carer, what the challenges and highlights are, and how to thrive.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9781785922046
• ISBN-10: 1785922041
• Artikelnr.: 47548472

Autorenporträt

Edited by Andy Elvin and Martin Barrow. Foreword by Lorraine Pascale.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 1. So you want to be a foster carer?. 2. Becoming a foster
carer. 3. How do children become fostered?. 4. What's it like to be a
foster child?. 5. Your first placement. 6. Behaviour management. 7.
Allegations, how to handle them and what to expect. 8. Managing contact. 9.
Working with the professional network. 10. Special guardianship orders. 11.
Well being. 12. Endings. 13. What difference does it make?. 14. Heroes of
the state.