Catalogue by authors / Against the odds - adopting mentally handicapped children
| Documentation presentation | |
| ISS/IRC Code | TOOL-ADOPT UK-004 |
| Partner | |
| Title | Against the odds - adopting mentally handicapped children |
| Author | MACASKILL Catherine |
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| General information | |
| Date published/issue | 00-00-1985 |
| Date received | 00-00-0000 |
| Place published | |
| Editor | |
| Publisher | British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering, Skyline House, 200 Union Street, London SE1 0LX |
| Distributor | BAAF |
| Page | 100 |
| Price | £4.00 |
| ISBN | 0 903534 58 4 |
| Type of material | Book |
| Language of document |
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| Document information | |
| Document description |
Evaluation |
| Country concerned |
UNITED KINGDOM UNITED STATES |
| Index |
Prepa-adoption-child Special-needs-child Follow-up-adoption Disabled Prepa-adoption-paps Desinstitutional Worktool Adopt-fam-post-adopt-sup |
| Free text | No 6 in BAAF Discussion Series: Study of adoptive families of disabled children - The author describes her first encounters with American adoptive families of "hard-to-place" children, and how this practice, by enthusiastic pioneers, spread throughout the United States and Great Britain. Description of all aspects of this type of adoption through the study of twenty families in the UK. |
| Document qualification | |
| Degree of interest | Valuable |
| Work area |
Health Psychology Social work --> |
| Potential users |
All |
| Other potential users |
Adopt-Agency Adopt-Parents |