Adoption & Fostering

Katie Careful has just moved in with her siblings and their new parents. Even if she's sad or scared, she smiles and smiles to try and hide her wob...

Assessing prospective adoptive parents, foster carers, kinship carers and special guardians is an extremely complex task, and one that happens with...

Foundations for Attachment Training Resource is a six-session programme to help parents and carers to nurture attachments with their child. It is d...

How can we help heal children who have been abused or neglected? Healing Child Trauma Through Restorative Parenting details how children can be hel...

On June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case Adoptive Couple vs. Baby Girl, which pitted adoptive parents Matt and Melanie Capobianco ag...

The Definitive Guide to Theraplay® for Practitioners, officially endorsed by the Theraplay® InstituteTheraplay is an intervention that focuses on e...

Music therapy is a valuable method of support and treatment for those dealing with trauma within the adoption community. Music Therapy in Adoption ...

Designed as a professional complement to Sarah Naish's bestselling A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting, this tried and tested resource offers practical to...

Moonbeam Children's Book Awards Gold Medal WinnerThis is an illustrated children's book for ages 7-11 that makes gender identity, sexual orientatio...

On June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case Adoptive Couple vs. Baby Girl, which pitted adoptive parents Matt and Melanie Capobianco ag...

This book guides childcare professionals through attachment theory and provides techniques for caring for children with attachment difficulties. It...

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 th...

Featuring a spectrum of families from diverse backgrounds, this book reveals the joys and challenges of adoptive and foster parenting. The authors ...

Toddler Adoption looks at the unique joys and challenges of adopting and parenting a toddler. When a child aged is adopted between the ages of 12 t...

A burgeoning evidence base supports that arts, play and other creative therapies have potential to help children in foster care, kinship care or ad...

Around three quarters of people who turn to adoption do so because of infertility and those working in this field need information, guidance and su...

A Guide to Therapeutic Child Care provides an easy to read explanation of the secrets that lie behind good quality therapeutic child care.It descri...

Finally, a parenting book which demystifies the latest thinking on neurobiology, physiology and trauma and explains what the research means for the...

Life story work is one of the key therapeutic approaches to working with adopted or fostered children. While it sounds simple, there is much more t...

Using Stories to Build Bridges with Traumatized Children is full of creative ideas for how you can use stories therapeutically with children in cou...

· What are attachment difficulties?· How do they affect children?· How can you help?This book provides clear and concise an...

All families of children affected by trauma are on a journey, and this book will help to guide you and your family on your journey from trauma to t...

When I am ready, I need you to talk to me and help me understand my feelings...'This reassuring story helps children aged 5+ with attachment issues...

Being culturally competent in practice is an essential skill for any practitioner working with people. Award-winning social worker and diversity tr...

Written for busy foster carers and adoptive parents, this book provides a concise introduction to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and how to suppor...

What should you expect when you're expecting to foster? This book is a guide to taking the first critical steps of your fostering journey, explaini...

Difficult behaviour in children with developmental trauma comes from a place of hurt. It is often confusing, unpredictable and painful both to the ...

This book presents an innovative relational and community based therapeutic model to ensure children's essential attachment needs are catered for i...

Redeem Your Adoption Journey  In this groundbreaking book, adoption advocates Betsy S. Kylstra, Lisa C. Qualls, and Jodi Jackson Tucker--an adopte...

Decades of demographic studies and applied efforts have convinced scholars, students, and social workers that young people coming of age and transi...

Decades of demographic studies and applied efforts have convinced scholars, students, and social workers that young people coming of age and transi...