Attachment Handbook for Foster Care and Adoption
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Attachment is at the heart of family life and at the heart of foster care and adoption. Attachment theory and research provide a vital developmental framework for making sense of the behaviour and relationship strengths and difficulties that children bring from their complex backgrounds. It also offers a valuable resource for understanding the kind of caregiving in foster care and adoptive families that can enable children to feel more trusting, confident, competent and secure.
This book traces the pathways of secure and insecure patterns from birth to adulthood, exploring the impact of past experiences of abuse, neglect and separation on children s behaviour in foster and adoptive families. It then explains, from an attachment perspective, the dimensions of parenting that are associated with helping children to feel more secure and to fulfil their potential in the family, with peers, at school and in the community. Finally, it tackles the key role which keeping attachment in mind can play in a range of areas of family placement practice, including contact.
Vivid case examples are used to make connections with the reality, both the challenges and the rewards, of daily life in foster and adoptive families.
This book is an indispensable resource for practitioners, foster carers, adoptive parents and all those seeking to ensure that children in need of family care get the very best experience possible and that foster carers and adoptive parents get the support they need and deserve.
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Additional information
| Publisher | British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) (8 Jun. 2006) |
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| Language | English |
| Paperback | 420 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1903699967 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1903699966 |
| Dimensions | 20.9 x 2.3 x 29.8 cm |
by Rhona
This is an excellent book for all working with Foster carers and adopters. It is easy to read and the writers sert out the chapters with themes which make it easy to dip and out . This would be particularly useful for workers starting in this field and for experienced workers who wish to revist practice—never a bad thing !! Would really recommend
by bola
Very good condition. Looks new. Arrived on time. Happy with everything. Thanks.
by Karen Barwise
I needed an urgent copy of this book to return in place of one that I had spilled coffee on so exactly as expected, good price and delivered in plenty of time. Phew!!!
by TooHappy:)
This book is great really readable. It handles a complex subject really well.
I assess potential foster carers and have now lent it to several people during the assessment process and they have found it equally useful and understandable.
Great book.
by Guntherus
Useful guide to learning the skills needed to allow your new addition to adapt to family life and build relationships and attachments.
by commandpoint2
very informative good refresher tool to keep
by richnvicks
Really good insight into attachment, a real eye opener! I would recommend this to anyone going through adoption process or foster care
by Elizabeth Evans
While going through the assessment process to become adoptive parents, my local library found me a copy of the handbook. I have now bought my own copy. Coming from a non academic but rather a personal direction, I found that the book is broken down into sections that are readable, interesting and give a very practical insight into reactions and behaviours of children that have been through difficult situations. It gives several different reactions the children may have and ways to work through these with the children. I decided to buy a copy for ourselves as we don’t yet know who will be joining us. I will hopefully be using it as a tool to guide us a little more smoothly along the way, especially as it splits up the sections to cover different age groups from tiny babies into their teenage years and is easier than other books to dip in and out to find the piece you want and give yourself a reminder.