Assessing Adoptive Parents Foster Carers And Kinship Carers

Author : Joanne Alper,David Howe
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784504564

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Assessing Adoptive Parents, Foster Carers and Kinship Carers, Second Edition by Joanne Alper,David Howe Pdf

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 establish a meaningful understanding of parenting capacity. Children with histories of trauma, loss and hurt need to join families in which parents exhibit the ability to be good at relationships, are able to manage their own stress and bond with the child in their care. Now fully updated and expanded to cover the assessment of kinship carers and special guardians, this book combines the latest findings from neuroscience with research on what makes good assessments and provides guidance and tools for making thorough, analytical and effective assessments. With contributions from leading experts including Dan Hughes, Jonathan Baylin, Kim Golding and Julie Selwyn, it will provide you with the information you need to ensure the best possible chance of placement success.

Author : Joanne Alper,David Howe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1785921770

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Assessing Adoptive Parents, Foster Carers and Kinship Carers by Joanne Alper,David Howe Pdf

Combining theory and practice guidance for professionals, this is the authoritative guide to assessing foster carers, kinship carers and adoptive parents.

Author : David Howe,Joanne Alper
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857009159

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Assessing Adoptive and Foster Parents by David Howe,Joanne Alper Pdf

Assessing prospective adoptive and foster parents is an extremely complex task, and one that happens within a pressurised time frame. Currently, assessments draw substantially on interviews with prospective adopters and foster carers. Too often, they generate a lot of information but lack meaningful analysis and understanding of parenting capacity. Children with histories of trauma, loss and hurt need to join families in which parents exhibit the ability to be good at relationships, able to manage their own stress and bond with the child in their care. In this book, leading experts including Dan Hughes, Jonathan Baylin, Kim Golding and Julie Selwyn combine the latest findings from neuroscience with research on what makes good assessments. Together, they provide guidance and recommend tools for making thorough, analytical and effective assessments which will ensure the best possible chance of placement success. Assessing Adoptive and Foster Parents is an invaluable source of knowledge and practice guidance for social workers undertaking assessments of parenting capacity of children who have experienced neglect or trauma.

Author : Elizabeth Fernandez,Richard Barth
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0857003895

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How Does Foster Care Work? by Elizabeth Fernandez,Richard Barth Pdf

How Does Foster Care Work? is an international collection of empirical studies on the outcomes of children in foster care. Drawing on research and perspectives from leading international figures in children's services across the developed world, the book provides an evidence base for programme planning, policy and practice. This volume establishes a platform for comparison of international systems, trends and outcomes in foster care today. Each contributor provides a commentary on one other chapter to highlight the global significance of issues affecting children and young people in care. Each chapter offers new ideas about how foster care could be financed, delivered or studied in order to become more effective. This book is important reading for anyone involved in delivering child welfare services, such as administrators, practitioners, researchers, policy makers, children's advocates, academics and students.

Author : Jenny Kenrick,Caroline Lindsey,Lorraine Tollemache
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429912399

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Creating New Families by Jenny Kenrick,Caroline Lindsey,Lorraine Tollemache Pdf

Creating New Families is intended to reflect the practice of the specialist, multi-disciplinary Fostering and Adoption team in the Child and Family Department of the Tavistock Clinic. The team is firmly rooted in an approach which values inter-disciplinary working for the contribution which the thinking of each discipline makes to the overall endeavour with the child and family. It also places great importance on multi-agency collaboration, especially with social services and education, without which no intervention with this group of children can succeed. The book represents the differing ways in which members contribute to the work of the team, with individual and joint accounts by clinicians of the ways in which their therapeutic practice has evolved and about the theoretical thinking on which it is based.

Author : Liza Bingley Miller,Arnon Bentovim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781134131150

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Assessing the Support Needs of Adopted Children and Their Families by Liza Bingley Miller,Arnon Bentovim Pdf

Written in consultation with a range of experts, clinicians and practitioners as well as adoptive children, families and birth relatives, this book gives helpful guidance on making evidence-based assessments and planning successful adoption support. Key features include: a discussion of the main themes of adoption and pointers for practice in relation to the Assessment Framework a guide to the use of evidence-based approaches to assessment, including the tools commissioned by the Department of Health and the Department for Education a model for analysis and planning, and planning support and interventions an investigation of the source, range and value of support services and interventions that can promote the wellbeing of adopted children, their adoptive families and birth relatives. Packed with practical advice, case examples and models of good practice, this book is invaluable for social workers and managers involved with the adoption process and the well-being of children and families. It is also essential reading for social work students learning about working with children and families.

Author : Roger Greeff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429839658

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Fostering Kinship by Roger Greeff Pdf

First published in 1999, this work draws together a multi-national collection of papers, and aims to stimulate the development of policy and practice in this often neglected area. It aims to offer examples of good social work practice, informed by relevant theoretical insights; to give a voice to kinship foster carers and young people so that practice can be informed by an understanding of their experience; to share the results of current research; to highlight issues for policy makers; and to place the issues in the wider international context of developing social policy, ideology and social change. There are contributions from the UK, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, the US and New Zealand.

Author : adoptionplus,Louis Sydney,Elizabeth Price
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857009241

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Facilitating Meaningful Contact in Adoption and Fostering by adoptionplus,Louis Sydney,Elizabeth Price Pdf

Most children who are fostered or adopted have some level of contact with their birth family -- whether face-to-face or by letter -- yet most of the time the psychological impact of contact on the child isn't considered. This book explores what attachment, neuroscience and trauma tell us about how contact affects children, and shows how poorly executed contact can be unhelpful or even harmful to the child. Assessment frameworks are provided which take the child's developmental needs into account. The authors also outline a model for managing and planning contact to make it more purposeful and increase its potential for therapeutic benefit. The book covers the challenges presented by the internet for managing contact, unique issues for children in kinship care, problems that arise when adoptive parents separate and many other key issues for practice. Brimming with practical advice and creative solutions, this is an indispensable tool for social workers, contact centre workers, and other professionals involved in contact arrangements or the therapeutic support of fostered and adopted children.

Author : David Pitcher
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857006820

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Inside Kinship Care by David Pitcher Pdf

Kinship care – the care of children by grandparents, other relatives or friends – is a major part of foster care, yet there are distinct issues that arise in care involving family rather than 'stranger' foster carers. This book takes an in-depth look at what goes on 'inside' kinship care. It explores the dynamics and relationships between family members that are involved in kinship care, including mothers, grandparents, siblings and the wider family. Chapters also discuss issues such as safeguarding, assessment, therapy, encouraging permanence, placement breakdown, support groups, and cultural issues. The final part of the book looks at kinship care from an international perspective, with examples from New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and the United States. Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives and with contributions from different branches of kinship care, this book provides an invaluable overview of the issues involved and how to provide effective support. It will be essential reading for all those working in the kinship care field, including social workers, therapists, counsellors, psychologists and family lawyers.

Author : Elaine Farmer,Sue Moyers
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1846428033

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Kinship Care by Elaine Farmer,Sue Moyers Pdf

Children are frequently cared for by relatives and friends when parents, for whatever reason, are unable to care for their children themselves. Yet there has been very little information about how well children do when placed with kin or how safe they are in these placements. This book compares formal kinship care to traditional foster placements in order to ascertain which children are placed with kin, in what circumstances, how well such children progress, and how often these placements disrupt. The authors explore whether children placed with family and friends fare better or worse than other foster children, what services are provided and needed, and how kin care is experienced by carers, children and social workers. This book will be essential reading for social workers, policy makers, students and all those working with looked-after children, and will enable local authorities to make informed decisions about where best to place children and the support needed by family and friend carers.

Author : Helen Cosis-Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Foster home care
ISBN : 1910039373

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Foster Carer Reviews by Helen Cosis-Brown Pdf

Author : Rebecca L. Hegar,Maria Scannapieco
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0195109406

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Kinship Foster Care by Rebecca L. Hegar,Maria Scannapieco Pdf

KINSHIP FOSTER CARE: POLICY, PRACTICE, AND RESEARCH assembles the thinking and research of experts from several professional fields concerning what has become the fastest growing type of substitute care for children in state custody. The editors have contributed the initial and concluding chapters of the book and the lead chapter in each of its three sections.

Author : Mitchell Rosenwald,Beth N. Riley
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780231146876

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Advocating for Children in Foster and Kinship Care by Mitchell Rosenwald,Beth N. Riley Pdf

This book is the first to provide strategies for effective advocacy and placement within the foster care and kinship care systems. It also takes a rare look at the dynamics of the foster and kinship relationship, not just among children and the agency workers and service providers who intervene on their behalf, but also between children and those who take in and care for them as permanency develops. Drawing on their experience interacting with and writing about the institution of foster care, Mitchell Rosenwald and Beth N. Riley have composed a unique text that helps practitioners, foster parents, and relative caregivers realize successful transitions for youth, especially considering the traumas these children may suffer both before and after placement. Advocating for a child's best interests must begin early and remain consistent throughout assignment and adjustment. For practitioners, Rosenwald and Riley emphasize the best techniques for assessing a family's capabilities and for guiding families through the challenges of foster care. Part one details the steps potential foster parents and kinship caregivers must take, with the assistance of practitioners, to prepare themselves for placement. Part two describes tactics for successful advocacy within the court system, social service agencies, schools, and the medical and mental health establishments. Part three describes how to lobby for change at the agency and legislative levels, as well as within a given community. The authors illustrate recommendations through real-life scenarios and devote an entire chapter to brokering positive partnerships among practitioners, families, and other teams working to protect and transition children.

Author : James Barber,Paul Delfabbro,Robyn Gilbertson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781134385256

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Children in Foster Care by James Barber,Paul Delfabbro,Robyn Gilbertson Pdf

Researchers, practitioners, journalists and politicians increasingly recognise that foster care throughout the world is in a state of crisis. There are more and more children needing care and, as residential alternatives dry up, more of these children are being assigned to foster families. This book reports the major findings of a two-year longitudinal study of 235 such children who entered the foster care system in Southern Australia between 1998 and 1999. As well as examining the changing policy context of children's services, the book documents the psychosocial outcomes for these children, their feedback on their experiences of care, and the views of their social workers and carers. In the process, the book examines some cherished beliefs about foster care policy and sheds new light on them. The research reveals that while most children do quite well in foster care up to the two-year point, there is a worrying amount of placement instability at a time when the concentration of emotionally troubled children in care is increasing throughout the western world. Although, surprisingly, placement instability does not appear to produce psychosocial impairment for a period of up to eight months in care, it has an extreme effect on children who are moved from placement to placement because no carer will tolerate their behaviour. These children are consigned to a life of distribution and emotional upheaval because of the lack of alternative forms of care. Another unexpected finding of the research is that increasing the rate of parental contact achieves little or nothing in relation to the likelihood of family reunification. As child welfare increasingly enters a world of research-based practice, Children in Foster Care provides some much needed hard evidence of how foster care policy and practice can be improved.

Author : Mike Thomas,Terry Philpot
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1846426871

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Fostering a Child's Recovery by Mike Thomas,Terry Philpot Pdf

The overwhelming majority of children and young people in care today are fostered, but for some this only increases their problems through untreated trauma, ill-judged placements, poorly supported foster carers and multiple moves. This practical and evidence-based book outlines the principles of family placement on the basis of planning and evidence, and explores the qualities, skills and insights that create positive placement outcomes. Fostering a Child's Recovery shows how the key to good fostering is well-trained and skilled foster carers who form part of a team of professionals who surround the child. This book will benefit all professionals and parents involved in providing recovery for traumatized children and young people in ensuring successful placements.