Recent advances in our understanding of children's social development have important implications for practice in the fields of child welfare, maltreatment, family support, adoption, residential and foster care. But they have not hitherto been systematically explored. This groundbreaking book constitutes the first clear and clinically useful summary. In Part I, integrating major research findings and exciting theoretical developments, the authors introduce the basic patterns of attachment across the life span. In Part II, they focus on applications. Their detailed description of a practice and assessment model for work with children and families leads practitioners step by step through the key stages of information gathering, analysis and assessment, formulation of aims, and methods of intervention. The model is then used to support a range of approaches to help. Throughout, fascinating case material, relationship histories, and interview transcripts illustrate both theory and practice. The book will be an invaluable resource for all those working with children in need.

Attachment Theory, Child Maltreatment, and Family Support: A Practice and Assessment Model

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Howe, David

Brandon, Marion

Hinings, Diana

Schofield, Gillian

Mental Health

Routledge

For children growing up in foster care, the role of their birth parents is an important factor in the success of their long-term placements. Understanding the experiences of parents is therefore essential in order to develop effective social work practice with parents that can also ensure the best possible outcomes for children. Drawing on detailed and often moving interviews with parents, the book takes a chronological approach, starting with their accounts of family life before their children were taken into care, in particular the impact of drugs, alcohol and domestic violence. It goes on to explore their experiences of court and then how they seek to come to terms with their loss, sustain an identity as a parent and manage a relationship with their children through contact. Parents' views on what they find valuable and helpful in relationships with foster carers and social workers are also discussed. The book then draws on the views of social workers on the opportunities and challenges of supporting parents, while also remaining child-focussed. The authors set out a model of good practice, based on the lessons learnt from the experiences of these parents and social workers. This book will be essential reading for all child and family social workers, fostering social workers, independent reviewing officers, academics and foster carers

Understanding and Working with Parents of Children in Long-Term Foster Care

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

A study investigating the experience of young women who become pregnant while of school age and decide to keep their babies. A review of the literature concludes that negative images of young mothers predominate. The group of young mothers studied have more diverse experiences than normally represented. Contains chapters on becoming pregnant and making a decision, the experience and long term consequences of motherhood, family reactions, the baby's father and services available for school-age mothers

The Youngest Mothers: The Experience of Pregnancy and Motherhood Among Young Women of School Age

Self-Help

Avebury

Based on the intriguing and often moving stories of forty young men and women who were fostered long-term, the author draws on development theories such as attachment and resilience in her analysis of their varying experiences. Whether they settled in their first placement or took longer to reach a family where they felt they could belong, these are people who regarded their foster families as "real families", raising important questions about family relationships and their meaning, and offering important implications for social work practice.

Part of the Family : Pathways Through Foster Care

Sociology

British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF)

The Child Placement Handbook

Politics & Government

Baaf Adoption & Fostering

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