Assessing Adoptive Parents, Foster Carers and Kinship Carers, Second Edition (eBook, ePUB)

Improving Analysis and Understanding of Parenting Capacity
Redaktion: Alper, Joanne; Howe, David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784504564
• Artikelnr.: 47382886

Autorenporträt

Edited by Joanne Alper and David Howe

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction
Joanne Alper
Adoptionplus. Chapter 2: Why are you frightened of being parented? Understanding developmental trauma
Kim S. Golding
Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust. Chapter 3: The home study and assessment of applicants: research evidence
Julie Selwyn
University of Bristol. Chapter 4: Adoptionplus: a new agency
a new approach
Joanne Alper
Adoptionplus. Chapter 5: Parenting well and staying well: understanding the qualities needed for parenting children with developmental trauma
Kim S. Golding and Ben Gurney-Smith
Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust and Adoptionplus. Chapter 6: Understanding developmental trauma
parental attachments
caregiving and PACE
Dan Hughes
Quittie GlenCenter for Mental Health. Chapter 7: The parenting brain
John Baylin
Norman Broudy MD & Associates. Chapter 8: Assessing potential kinship placements
Joanne Alper and Ailsa Edwards
Adoptionplus and Children in Need Chapter 9: Reflective functioning and parenting
John Baylin
Norman Broudy MD & Associates. Chapter 10: Conclusion
David Howe
University of East Anglia.