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The Eye of Adoption: A Turbulent True Story of Heartache, Humor, & Hope
Jody DyerCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99Current price €14.10Original price €16.99Save 17% -
Christian Globalism at Home: Child Sponsorship in the United States
Hillary KaellCurrent price €107.09Original price €118.99An exploration of how ordinary U.S. Christians create global connections through the multibillion-dollar child sponsorship industryChild sponsorshi...
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The Meaning of Ordinary
Frances LockleyCurrent price €9.74Original price €12.99Octavia is adopted, but has material advantages. However, her childhood innocence is short-lived when she discovers the truth about her family from...
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The Puppy No One Wanted: The young dog desperate for a home to call his own
Barby KeelCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99Barby Keel is used to all manner of creatures arriving at the door of the Barby Keel Animal Sanctuary where she lives and works, deep within the Su...
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Fostering on the Farm: Child Placement in the Rural Midwest
Megan BirkCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50From 1870 until after World War I, reformers led an effort to place children from orphanages, asylums, and children's homes with farming families. ...
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Legitimating Life: Adoption in the Age of Globalization and Biotechnology
Sonja van WichelenCurrent price €125.79Original price €147.99The phenomenon of transnational adoption is changing in the age of globalization and biotechnology. In Legitimating Life, Sonja van Wichelen boldly...
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Children and Young People `Looked After''?: Education, Intervention and the Everyday Culture of Care in Wales
University of Wales PressCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99Despite a proliferation of legislative action in response to differential outcomes, the relative educational, employment and lifecourse disadvantag...
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Becoming an Adoption-Friendly School: A Whole-School Resource for Supporting Children Who Have Experienced Trauma or Loss - With Complementary Downloadable Material
Emma Gore LangtonCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99Adopted children who have experienced loss, abuse or neglect need additional support for their emotional development, and are more likely to have s...
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Broken: A traumatized girl. Her troubled brother. Their shocking secret.
Rosie LewisCurrent price €11.61Original price €13.99Nine-year-old Archie and his five-year-old sister, Bobbi, are taken into emergency police protective custody after an incident of domestic violence...
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Four Waifs on our Doorstep
Trisha MerryCurrent price €11.61Original price €13.99At eleven o' clock one night in 1997, four hungry, damaged young children arrive on foster carers Trisha and Mike Merry's doorstep. Two social work...
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Nurturing Attachments Training Resource: Running Parenting Groups for Adoptive Parents and Foster or Kinship Carers - With Downloadable Materials
Kim GoldingCurrent price €101.69Original price €112.99Nurturing Attachments Training Resource is a complete group-work programme containing everything you need to run training and support sessions for ...
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Denied! Failing Cordelia: Parental Love and Parental-State Theft in Los Angeles Juvenile Dependency Court: Book One: The Cankered Rose and Esther''s Revenge
Simon CambridgeCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Current price €16.99Original price €19.99Save 15% -
Denied! Failing Cordelia: Parental Love and Parental-State Theft in Los Angeles Juvenile Dependency Court: Book One: The Cankered Rose and Esther''s Revenge
Simon CambridgeCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Current price €23.38Original price €27.50Save 15% -
Attaching Through Love, Hugs and Play: Simple Strategies to Help Build Connections with Your Child
Deborah D. GrayCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99Capturing the warmth and fun of forming close relationships with children, this book offers simple advice to parents of children who find it diffic...
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The Simple Guide to Child Trauma: What It Is and How to Help
Betsy de ThierryCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50· What is trauma?· How does it affect children?· How can adults help?Providing straightforward answers to these complex que...
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Fostering on the Farm: Child Placement in the Rural Midwest
Megan BirkCurrent price €96.04Original price €112.99From 1870 until after World War I, reformers led an effort to place children from orphanages, asylums, and children's homes with farming families. ...
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Supporting adult care-leavers: International good practice
Suellen MurrayCurrent price €79.19Original price €87.99Growing up in care is not just a part of childhood, but can have ongoing impacts across a persons life. Various inquiries have revealed accounts of...
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The Promise I Kept: A mother''s journey to save a child from the poverty and squalor of post-Cold War Romania
Adele RickerbyCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Current price €16.65Original price €18.50Save 10% -
A Princess Found: An American Family, an African Chiefdom, and the Daughter Who Connected Them All
Sarah CulbersonCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99Current price €16.59Original price €19.99Save 17% -
A Short Introduction to Promoting Resilience in Children
Colby PearceCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99A child's capacity to cope with adversity and 'stand on their own two feet' is seen as critical to their development, well-being, and future indepe...
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Caleb''s Healing Story: An interactive story with activities to help children to overcome challenges arising from trauma, attachment issues, adoption or fostering
Kathleen A. CharaCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Caleb invites you on a journey to learn about attachment and trauma in this interactive story and workbook intended for children and the adults who...
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Team Parenting for Children in Foster Care: A Model for Integrated Therapeutic Care
Jeanette CawCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99How can professionals work together with foster carers to create stable and therapeutic foster placements? Team Parenting for Children in Foster Ca...
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Foster Care in Indian Tribes: Challenges & Federal Assistance
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €88.19Original price €97.99Title IV-E of the Social Security Act provides federal support for foster care and adoption assistance programs. Since 2008, 5 tribes have been app...
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Foster Children & Youth in Congregate Care Settings: Overview, Issues, & Reduction Efforts
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €87.39Original price €91.99About 14 percent of the more than 400,000 children in foster care nationwide lived in congregate care at the end of fiscal year 2013, according to ...
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Foster Care: Global Issues, Challenges and Perspectives of the 21st Century
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €136.64Original price €143.83In the first chapter of Foster Care: Global Issues, Challenges and Perspectives of the 21st Century, the authors explore modern research regarding ...
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Ethics and Research with Children: A Case-Based Approach
Oxford University Press IncCurrent price €90.89Original price €100.99Fundamental questions about the morality of pediatric medical research persist despite years of debate and the establishment of strict codes of eth...
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The Mermaid Who Couldn''t: How Mariana Overcame Loneliness and Shame and Learned to Sing Her Own Song
Ali RedfordCurrent price €12.63Original price €15.99Mariana the Mermaid is not like the other mermaids. Abandoned by a careless mother on the ocean floor, she has never laughed or played, and can bar...
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The Five Giants [New Edition]: A Biography of the Welfare State
Nicholas TimminsCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99A TIMES POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR A LONGMAN/HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR ...
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Basic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen
Guy StandingCurrent price €16.28Original price €17.50'Basic Income is an idea whose time has come, and Guy Standing has pioneered our understanding of it... Standing's analysis is vital' Paul Mason'Gu...
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Bomji and Spotty''s Frightening Adventure: A Story About How to Recover from a Scary Experience
Anne WestcottCurrent price €14.80Original price €18.50One sunny day, Bomji the rabbit and his friend Spotty the cat meet something very scary while picking flowers in the woods. The friends manage to ...
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Social Work and Foster Care
Helen Cosis-BrownCurrent price €115.19Original price €127.99Working with children in foster care is a demanding and rigorous aspect of social work practice. Difficult decisions in fast-moving and often compl...
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Groomed: Danger lies closer than you think
Casey WatsonCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99Its late on Friday night when Caseys mobile starts to ring. She is expecting it to be her daughter Riley. But it isnt Riley. Its a woman from the E...
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A Relational Based Approach to Working with Trauma. Attachment, and Dissociation: A Model of Practice for Working in Adoption, Foster, and Residential Care
Richard CrossCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Current price €28.79Original price €31.99Save 10% -
How Social Security Works: An Introduction to Benefits in Britain
Paul SpickerCurrent price €26.55Original price €29.50Current price €26.55Original price €29.50Save 10% -
Without a Doubt: An Irish Couple''s Journey Through IVF, Adoption and Surrogacy
Fiona WhyteCurrent price €18.04Original price €18.99Current price €18.04Original price €18.99Save 5% -
Billy Says... Series: Six therapeutic storybooks to help children on their journey through fostering or adoption
Joanne AlperCurrent price €54.39Original price €63.99This series of six picture books guides children through a range of issues relating to fostering and adoption by focusing on the experiences of a f...
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Housing First: Ending Homelessness, Transforming Systems, and Changing Lives
Benjamin HenwoodCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99This book is the first to chronicle the story of Housing First (HF), a paradigm-shifting evidence-based approach to ending homelessness that began ...
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Letters to My Grandchildren: Heart-Breaking Letters to the Author''s Grandchildren Who Were Unlawfully Separated from Him by the State
Brian PeadCurrent price €21.57Original price €25.99Current price €21.57Original price €25.99Save 17% -
Adoption by Foster Carers: A Guide to Preparing, Assessing and Supporting Foster Carers Adopting Children in Their Care
Elaine DibbenCurrent price €16.33Original price €18.99Current price €16.33Original price €18.99Save 14% -
The Girl Without a Voice: The true story of a terrified child whose silence spoke volumes
Casey WatsonCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Bestselling author and foster carer Casey Watson tells the shocking and deeply moving true story of a young girl with severe behavioural problems. ...
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Four Waifs on our Doorstep
Trisha MerryCurrent price €9.95Original price €11.99At eleven o' clock one night in 1997, four hungry, damaged young children arrive on foster carers Trisha and Mike Merry's doorstep. Two social work...
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The Adopter''s Handbook on Therapy: Getting the Best for Your Child
Eileen Eileen FurslandCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Current price €15.73Original price €18.50Save 15%