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Developing Adoption Support and Therapy: New Approaches for Practice

  • ISBN-13: 9781843101468
  • Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
  • By Barry Luckock, By Angie Hart
  • Price: AUD $62.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 13/09/2004
  • Format: Paperback 224 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Adoption [VFVK]
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Adoption is currently taking centre stage in family policy in the UK and USA, with new legislation that places emphasis on providing and maintaining permanent family homes for children separated from their families of origin. This book explores the challenges of adoption and how best to support families coping with these demands.Angie Hart and Barry Luckock draw together adoptive parents' experiences, professional practice and empirical research to provide a thoughtful account of adoption support services. Using three fictional families, they illustrate issues such as the adoption of older children, single, lesbian and gay adoptive parenting and the importance of openness in adoptive relationships. The authors bring sociological and anthropological perspectives to bear on current developmental psychology models of trauma and attachment and examine the effectiveness of various therapeutic interventions. Developing Adoption Support and Therapy will make current research and legislation on adoption support accessible to parents, therapists, social work practitioners and managers alike.
1. Adoption Today. 2. Understanding Adoptive Childhood and Family Life: Family Practices and Narratives as the Context for Adoption Support. 3. Adoption Support: The Legal and Organisational Framework for Practice. 4. 'Someone There For Us': The Adoption Support Services Advisor in Context. 5. Facilitating 'Good Enough' Adoptive Parenting Through Formal Therapeutic Interventions. 6. 'Holding Multiple Families in Mind': Enabling Open Communication and Adoptive Kinship. 7. Developing Communities of Adoptive Practice. References. Index.
A welcome breath of fresh air and common sense to the often complex issues surrounding the permanent placement of children in substitute families.
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