Adoptionplus, Louis Sydney, Elsie Price

Facilitating Meaningful Contact in Adoption and Fostering (eBook, ePUB)

A Trauma-Informed Approach to Planning, Assessing and Good Practice

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Most children who are fostered or adopted have some level of contact with their birth family -- whether face-to-face or by letter -- yet most of the time the psychological impact of contact on the child isn't considered.

This book explores what attachment, neuroscience and trauma tell us about how contact affects children, and shows how poorly executed contact can be unhelpful or even harmful to the child. Assessment frameworks are provided which take the child's developmental needs into account. The authors also outline a model for managing and planning contact to make it more purposeful and increase its potential for therapeutic benefit. The book covers the challenges presented by the internet for managing contact, unique issues for children in kinship care, problems that arise when adoptive parents separate and many other key issues for practice.

Brimming with practical advice and creative solutions, this is an indispensable tool for social workers, contact centre workers, and other professionals involved in contact arrangements or the therapeutic support of fostered and adopted children.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857009241
• Artikelnr.: 41141464

Autorenporträt

Louis Sydney, Elsie Price and Adoptionplus

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
About Adoptionplus
Chapter 1 Introduction: What is Contact and What is it For? Chapter 2 How to facilitate contact: a structured process
Chapter 3 Understanding the Significance of Attachment and Neuroscience for Baby and Toddler Contact
Chapter 4 Contact During the Transition from Care Order to Permanency
Chapter 5 Contact When Moving from Foster Care into Adoption
Chapter 6 Letterbox contact
By Rachel Staff
Chapter 7 Contact Using Video Messages
Chapter 8: Sibling Relationships and Facilitating Sibling Contact
Chapter 9 Contact for Adopted Children with Adoptive Parents who have Separated or Divorced
Chapter 10 Where Contact is not Possible: Contact for children who are not able to meet their Birth Parents or Family
Chapter 11 Contact with Young People: The Long Shadow of Adoption
Chapter 12 Contact in Kinship Care
Endnotes
Index