Adoption & Fostering

Meet Chelsea - a young girl who was adopted. Chelsea invites you to learn about adoption from her perspective and introduces us to two friends of h...

Across Europe young people in public care are around five times less likely to attend tertiary education than those who have not been in care. This...

Understanding Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is a useful introduction to the most common non-genetic learning disability, which is caused b...

Positive and practical, this guide is designed to offer a route to recovery from grief and loss after adoption or long-term foster care.Children gr...

Straight Through the Labyrinth chronicles the true story of a gay Jewish scholar of China caught in the crosshairs of the very history he has studi...

Lessons in Gratitude tells the story of Aaron Dworkin, a MacArthur Fellow, social entrepreneur, and spoken word artist who has dedicated his lifes ...

In a deep dark forest, Little Coyote grows up with a tough gang of big strong coyotes. They are cruel, call him names and order him about all day l...

'Please help me,' he said in a small voice. 'Will you help me?'Six-year-old Ralph has only been in the care system for three days and has already b...

The decision whether or not to reunify a child in care with their birth family is one of the most serious taken by children's services, and often i...

Who makes adoption a success? We do: the kids and parents in the new family as we change shape to accommodate each other.With more than 70 real lif...

Parenting a child who doesn't know how to be parented is the most difficult job in the world.'Why Can't My Child Behave? provides friendly expert a...

Life story work is an approach designed to enable traumatized children to explore, question and understand the past events of their lives. It aims ...

How do you give your adopted or fostered child the best opportunities to grow up to be happy, healthy and successful?In this accessible book, psych...

Andy Pithouse and Alyson Rees use original research to identify key ingredients needed to help create successful foster placements and help preven...

Not a Fictional Mum makes sure no woman gets left behind Giovanna FletcherIn this inspiring, topical and painfully funny memoir, Not a Fictional Mu...

This is the go-to guide for practitioners, parents and carers who want to expand their understanding and skills for therapeutic parenting - a deepl...

After her adoptive mothers death, Lori Jakiela, at the age of forty, begins to seek the identity of her birth parents. In the midst of this loss, J...

When parents form families by reaching across social barriers to adopt children, where and how does race enter the adoption process? How do agencie...