Welcome to Fostering (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What should you expect when you're expecting to foster? This book is a guide to taking the first critical steps of your fostering journey, explaining what fostering is, how to become a foster carer and what it takes to thrive.

Combining invaluable advice from veteran foster carers, the expertise of the professionals who support them, and priceless experiences of foster children themselves, this book explains the fostering process step by step. It tackles all the questions that you've ever asked yourself about fostering: What is fostering really like? What are the challenges? What kind of difference could I make?

Comprehensive and accessible, this is the companion for first-time fosterers or those considering foster care.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784504809
• Artikelnr.: 48408970

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.