Item category 2: Adoption Stock

Goldie Hawn offers parents a practical guide for helping their children to learn better and live more happily. Based on the MindUP programme, supported by the Hawn Foundation, '10 Mindful Minutes' outlines short, practical exercises for parents and children - taking less than 10 minutes - to help...

Research by Bristol University revealed that over one quarter of 3-11 year olds for whom adoption was in principle agreed were never placed with an adoptive family. Jennifer Cousins explores the important issue of recruiting new carers and welcoming a wide range of permanent families in order to ...

This book will help professionals to consider their role in identifying and responding to child neglect. Each chapter presents a basic 'tip' in an accessible style, including understanding why parents neglect their children; the lessons to be learned from serious case reviews; and how best to int...

Introductions are a culmination of all the work that must take place between linking a child with a family and confirming a match. This book examines the purpose of introductions and how we can lay solid foundations for children to become fully integrated members of new families.

An accessible guide to what works in managing contact based on evidence from practice and experience, this title comprehensively explores ten top tips and provides a checklist of issues to be considered and actions to be taken.

Providing practical tips and suggestions about work with genetically related and unrelated siblings in many different situations and circumstances, this text covers a wide range of issues including knowing the child and the sibling group, recruiting and preparing families for each sibling group, ...

Intended for the wide range of social workers who become involved in supporting adoptive placements, this book includes chapters on financial support for adoptive families, supporting members of the adoptive parents' wider family, contact, managing children's difficult behaviour and identifying r...

This user-friendly guide will help social workers to recognise the challenges of kinship care and be better prepared to support kinship placements.