A reissue of Chicken Soup for the Adopted Soul, this updated collection has even more heartwarming and encouraging stories—your favorites from the original, plus new bonus stories—all about the joy of adoption. Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Joy of Adoption will encourage and uplift you with its touching, personal stories about forever families ......
d Their Families: Everyday Ideas to Help you Cope and Thrive!
Being a foster carer or adoptive parent is rewarding - but it is often far from easy. The daily stresses of bringing up a child or young person with complex needs can take its toll on you physically and emotionally. That's why it's so important for you to look after your own health, so you can keep doing what you do with energy and vitality. ......
Barbara Waterman earned her doctorate in Psychology and Social Relations from Harvard University in 1975. After working through not being able to conceive a child herself and several unsuccessful attempts to adopt, Dr Waterman became a stepmother to twelve-year-old twin daughters. She has a private consultation and psychotherapy practice in ......
This series of six picture books guides children through a range of issues relating to fostering and adoption by focusing on the experiences of a five-year-old girl called Kirsty and her magic doll Billy. Billy talks to Kirsty, explains what is happening to her and explores Kirsty's feelings during her journey from an abusive home to a loving ......
This work is a treasure for foster and adoptive parents and for the professionals who work to assist them.' from the Foreword by Daniel A. Hughes, clinical psychologist, consultant, trainer and authorThis book is full of the techniques that we have used successfully over the years. Many we have adapted to suit their needs and many we have made ......
When babies and very young children are placed in care, they may experience several different placements before their second birthday. Babies and Young Children in Care explores the life pathways of young children before, during and after being looked after, examining why the babies were placed in care and what caused their placement disruptions. ......
Attaching in Adoption is a comprehensive guide for prospective and actual adoptive parents on how to understand and care for their adopted child and promote healthy attachment. This classic text provides practical parenting strategies designed to enhance children's happiness and emotional health. It explains what attachment is, ......
Analysis and Understanding of Parenting Capacity 2ed
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 ......
Revelations from Adoptees, Birth Parents, Adoptive Parents, and Allies
Adoption is a multi-sided experience that can feel like it takes place in a vacuum. Here, three participants in the adoption triad reveal the challenges, the triumphs, and everything in between from their perspectives of adopted, adopter, and birth parent, and those of others who have experienced adoption from a variety of perspectives and roles.
