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This is a book about children who have to grow up apart from their biological parents, the impact of this on their lives and on those who look after them, and how we can respond to the challenges this poses in order that they can grow and develop in healthy directions.
List of contents
Series Editors' Foreword , Foreword , Introduction , Overview of the Social, Political, and Clinical Context for Alternative Family Care , Family placement: continuity and discontinuity over time , Working with professional systems , Approaches to working with foster carers and children , Under our skins: developmental perspectives on trauma, abuse, neglect, and resilience , Examples of Clinical Work with Children and Young People , The journey to becoming a family , Working with vulnerability and resilience for separated children seeking asylum: towards stories of hope , The best thing is the lunch! My friends! Being with other people in the same situation! Oh, and the slow walking! The Fostering, Adoption and Kinship Care Team Children's Group , The strength to smile behind my mask , Helping children through working with their adoptive parents , The Voices of Adults who have been Adopted or Experienced the Care System Either as Children or as those who are Currently Parenting Children , Extracts from two poems , The lived experience of transracial adoption , Positioning and respectful professional interventions for working with the legacy of Irish institutional care , Never too late , Co-creating a coherent story with adults who have been fostered or adopted , "It turns your whole world upside down ... but still it brings immense pleasure": perspectives on kinship care
About the author
Sara Barratt
Summary
This is a book about children who have to grow up apart from their biological parents, the impact of this on their lives and on those who look after them, and how we can respond to the challenges this poses in order that they can grow and develop in healthy directions.
