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Fostering Now

Author : Ian Sinclair
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1846421373
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Fostering Now written by Ian Sinclair and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2005-05-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * What are the consequences of fostering for children, their carers and their birth families? * What are the best ways of recruiting, retaining and supporting foster carers? * What are the most important elements of a successful placement? * Can foster care offer a permanent alternative to care at home? Fostering Now brings together authoritative research on foster care in the UK. It provides a succinct overview of a wide range of research projects and highlights the main implications for policymakers and all professionals involved in the fostering process. Drawing on the varied experiences and views of foster children, social workers, foster carers and parents, this book looks at how placement outcomes are influenced by factors such as foster carers' parenting styles, contact with the child's own parents, and the child's gender, ethnicity, age and physical and emotional health. Other important areas examined include care given by relatives, the effects of foster care on education, and what happens to foster children when they return home. Fostering Now identifies the most significant challenges currently faced by foster care and draws out the key messages for policy and practice. It offers important insights into the state of foster care today, and suggests how it can be improved in future. This book is essential reading for social workers, policy makers, academics and foster carers.

Fostering a Child's Recovery

Author : Terry Philpot
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1846426871
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Fostering a Child's Recovery written by Terry Philpot and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The overwhelming majority of children and young people in care today are fostered, but for some this only increases their problems through untreated trauma, ill-judged placements, poorly supported foster carers and multiple moves. This practical and evidence-based book outlines the principles of family placement on the basis of planning and evidence, and explores the qualities, skills and insights that create positive placement outcomes. Fostering a Child's Recovery shows how the key to good fostering is well-trained and skilled foster carers who form part of a team of professionals who surround the child. This book will benefit all professionals and parents involved in providing recovery for traumatized children and young people in ensuring successful placements.

Social Work with Children and Families

Author : Martin Brett Davies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350314153
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Social Work with Children and Families written by Martin Brett Davies and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social workers are constantly making decisions under pressure. How do policy, law, research and theory influence what they do? This important book provides the answers with a crystal-clear map of the field of social work with children and families. Focused on four major themes - family support work, child protection, adoption and fostering, and residential child care, and reveals in detail all the challenges that social workers face every day. Edited by the highly respected Martin Davies, this authoritative and illuminating book argues that the skill of the social worker can have life-enhancing consequences for some of the most vulnerable people in society. It is an essential investment for students, educators and practitioners alike.

Social Work and Foster Care

Author : Helen Cosis Brown
Publisher : Learning Matters
ISBN 13 : 1446297705
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Social Work and Foster Care written by Helen Cosis Brown and published by Learning Matters. This book was released on 2014-02-17 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working with children in foster care is a demanding and rigorous aspect of social work practice. Difficult decisions in fast-moving and often complex situations have to be made, and for students and practitioners alike, there is a vast array of legislation, law and social policy to understand. This book is written to help social workers and social work students get to grips with the complexity of foster care. The child is placed at the heart of the text and there are substantial chapters on law, policy frameworks and the overreaching theoretical and research evidence to support good practice. There is also a strong focus on practical skills such as empathy and relationship-based practice. This is an essential text for experienced social workers or those currently in training.

Child-Centred Foster Care

Author : Annabel Goodyer
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0857004026
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Child-Centred Foster Care written by Annabel Goodyer and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fostering is vitally important: the majority of looked after children are fostered, yet these children are often left out of the agenda and their voices are not heard. This book sets out a child-centred approach to foster care which argues against thinking about children purely from a psychological perspective and instead places children's views, rights and needs at the centre of care. It sets out the theory behind working in partnership with children who are fostered, and discusses children's views about fostering systems and living with foster carers. The book then outlines how to put the theory into practice, offering models, processes and best practice examples. Practical advice is given on establishing effective communication and good working relationships between practitioners, carers and foster children. This insightful book aims to promote better services and outcomes for fostered children, and will be essential reading for social work practitioners and students.

Effective Practice with Looked After Children

Author : Robin Sen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137269812
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Effective Practice with Looked After Children written by Robin Sen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the key developments that policy and research have undergone over the course of the past years, meeting the specific needs of looked after children is a priority for modern social work policy and practice. This comprehensive text combines an accessible overview of statutory policy and legislation with analysis of core theories and interventions to provide a guide for effective practice with children in all care settings by: - Covering legislation as well as research-based analysis of the key interventions and practice methods in the field - Meeting market needs: students and practitioners struggle with the dearth of specific material on looked after children - this text supports them in a core component of social work study and practice - Consolidating learning through its use of reflective questions, case studies, exercises and research analysis This book offers an accessible overview of the care context in Britain and is essential reading for students and practitioners wishing to develop effective practice within childcare.

Creating Stable Foster Placements

Author : Alyson Rees
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 085700865X
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Creating Stable Foster Placements written by Alyson Rees and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andy Pithouse and Alyson Rees use original research to identify key ingredients needed to help create successful foster placements and help prevent placement breakdown. In this study the lives and activities of 10 foster families who provide lasting and effective care are examined. The families' everyday world of meanings, negotiations, activities, settings, rituals and relationships that help to create these successful placements, are explored. The authors identify the main components that, according to the carers and the children, contribute to acceptance, belonging and stability in the family. The book examines the emotional and practical work involved in caring, and explores how it is received and reciprocated by fostered young people. With important insights into child and carer perspectives on fostering, What Works in Foster Care is a source of invaluable information for foster carers, children's service professionals, and trainees and care staff more generally who may be engaged with children who are looked after.

They're All My Children

Author : Danielle Wozniak
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814793460
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book They're All My Children written by Danielle Wozniak and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written from foster mothers' perspectives, this book voices the often painful experiences of contemporary U.S. foster mothers as they struggle to mother and care-work in the face of exploitative social relations with the state.

How Does Foster Care Work?

Author : Elizabeth Fernandez
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1849058121
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book How Does Foster Care Work? written by Elizabeth Fernandez and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume compares international systems, trends and outcomes in foster care today. Each chapter concludes with a critical commentary by one of the contributors, bringing a cross-national perspective to the issues affecting children and young people in care. The book offers new ideas about how foster care could be delivered in order to become more effective. --

Foster Children

Author : Ian Sinclair
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1843102781
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Foster Children written by Ian Sinclair and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the findings of the largest recent study into foster care in the UK, and including quotes from children themselves, this book examines the impact on children three years after they have left foster care.

Adoption from Care

Author : Pösö, Tarja
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447351045
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Adoption from Care written by Pösö, Tarja and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND. This book explores how children’s rights are practised and weighed against birth and adoptive parents’ rights and examines how governments and professionals balance rights when it is decided that children cannot return to parental care. From different socio-political and legal contexts in Europe and the United States, it provides an in-depth analysis of concepts of family, contact, the child’s best-interest principle and human rights when children are adopted from care. Taking an international comparative approach to these issues, this book provides detailed information on adoption processes and shares learning from best practice and research across country boundaries to help improve outcomes for all children in care for whom adoption may be the placement of choice.

Adoption from Care

Author : Skivenes, Marit
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447351037
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Adoption from Care written by Skivenes, Marit and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND. This book explores how children’s rights are weighed against parents’ rights in a range of countries, and examines how governments and legal and welfare professionals balance those rights following the decision that children cannot grow up in their parents’ care.

Kinship Care

Author : Elaine Farmer
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1846428033
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Kinship Care written by Elaine Farmer and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2008-05-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children are frequently cared for by relatives and friends when parents, for whatever reason, are unable to care for their children themselves. Yet there has been very little information about how well children do when placed with kin or how safe they are in these placements. This book compares formal kinship care to traditional foster placements in order to ascertain which children are placed with kin, in what circumstances, how well such children progress, and how often these placements disrupt. The authors explore whether children placed with family and friends fare better or worse than other foster children, what services are provided and needed, and how kin care is experienced by carers, children and social workers. This book will be essential reading for social workers, policy makers, students and all those working with looked-after children, and will enable local authorities to make informed decisions about where best to place children and the support needed by family and friend carers.

Social Work with Children and Families

Author : Maureen O′Loughlin
Publisher : Learning Matters
ISBN 13 : 1473967902
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book Social Work with Children and Families written by Maureen O′Loughlin and published by Learning Matters. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ′An excellent introduction to social work with children and families. It links practice with legislation and highlights relevant research findings′. - Mr Dan Burrows,Cardiff School of Health Sciences, Cardiff Metropolitan University Working with children and families is one of the most challenging, skilled, but ultimately rewarding, areas of social work practice. Social workers need to be able to work with a diverse group of children and their families: from babies to teenagers, single parents to two-parent families and multi-carer families, as well as with a diverse group of professionals, such as the police, schools, hospitals, health centres and various community organisations. They need to be able to understand the law, policy and legislation that surrounds social work with children and families, while continually developing their own skills. Such skills include communication, preparation and planning, intervention, recognition, identification and assessment of significant harm, recording and report writing, managing oneself and the work, problem solving, research and analysis and decision making. This fully revised new edition aims to guide you through all of these areas and more. There are chapters on safeguarding, substitute care for children, family support for children and families, life story work and direct work with children.

Developing Cultures

Author : Lawrence E. Harrison
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135440352
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Developing Cultures written by Lawrence E. Harrison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-01-13 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing Cultures: Case Studies is a collection of 27 essays by a group of leading internationals scholars on the role of culture and cultural change in the evolution of countries and regions around the world.

Social Policy

Author : John Baldock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199284970
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Social Policy written by John Baldock and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for use by undergraduates on social policy, social work and sociology courses and by students on vocational training courses (including postgraduate), this textbook covers all the main topics of social policy.

The Pursuit of Permanence

Author : Ian Sinclair
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1843105950
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Pursuit of Permanence written by Ian Sinclair and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children in public care complain that they have too many placements. Professionals agree but little is known about the reasons for this instability or how it affects different groups of children. The Pursuit of Permanence explores this core issue for children's services. Based on the largest study of the English care system in recent years, the book examines the children (what they need and what they want), their movements into, out of and within the care system, the nature and quality of their placements and the outcomes (whether the children are settled or happy). It analyses the reasons for movements and outcomes in different groups of children, and the relative impacts of the departments, social work teams and placements. It concludes with suggestions about how the care system should work, what it should offer and how it should be managed and inspected. This detailed, innovative and comprehensive study is essential reading for all professionals and academics involved with fostering, leaving care, adoption and children's services, as well as policy makers and students on social work courses.