Catalogue by titles / Developing Adoption Support and Therapy: new approaches for practice
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| ISS/IRC Code | TOOL-ADOPT ENG-089 |
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| Title | Developing Adoption Support and Therapy: new approaches for practice |
| Author | HART Angie; LUCKOCK Barry |
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| General information | |
| Date published/issue | 00-00-2004 |
| Date received | 00-00-0000 |
| Place published | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Editor | |
| Publisher | Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London N1 9JB, England or 400 Market Street, Suite 400, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA (www.jkp.com) |
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| Page | 224 |
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| ISBN | 1-84310-146-7 |
| Type of material | Book |
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| Document description |
Commentaries Research |
| Country concerned |
UNITED KINGDOM UNITED STATES |
| Index |
Family-adoptive Adoptee Special-needs-child Follow-up-adoption Attachment Child-post-adopt-sup Pap-homosexual Adopt-fam-post-adopt-sup |
| Free text | This book explores the challenges of adoption and how best to support adoptive families. It uses three fictional families to illustrate issues such as the adoption of older children, single, lesbian and gay adoptive parenting and the importance of openness in adoptive relationships. More specifically, one section outlines the contents of contemporary law and policy in relation to adoption support and provides a critique of them. Another one develops the role of the Adopton Support Services Advisor and other providers of routine adoption support. A chapter deals specifically with formal therapeutic interventions and their role in strengthening the capacity of the attachment/care-giving relationship in adoptive families. Another chapter moves the discussion on further to consider problems of openness in communicating with children about their past and its meaning for their lives in the present. The book ends with a further move outwards from the adoptive family towards their participation in what it calls "community of adoptive practice". It considers ways in which adoptive parents, children, their former carers, adoption supporters and others can actively collaborate in the joint venture of settling children in adoptive families. |
| Document qualification | |
| Degree of interest | Sensitive |
| Work area |
Miscellaneous |
| Potential users |
Associate NGO-Partner |
| Other potential users |
Adopt-Agency Adopt-Parents GOVT NGO |