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John Triseliotis

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John Triseliotis, who died in 2012, was for more than 40 years a world-renowned expert on children raised by people other than their parents. He carried out seminal research that helped lift the veil of secrecy and stigma hitherto associated with adoption. He also wrote and taught about foster and residential care, as well as social work practice and training, playing a major role in building a strong evidence base for policy and professional work.

The articles and chapters in this collection are a tribute to John Triseliotis’s pioneering work. They reflect the full range of his long career and the breadth of subject matter he wrote about. Many of the issues he examined – intercountry adoption, the support needs of carers and assessments of parenting – continue to be of vital significance.

With a substantial introduction by Malcolm Hill, his former student and long-term collaborator, this book commemorates a remarkable figure whose work and policy influence is still considerable today.

Who is this book for?

Social work practitioners, managers, policy makers, researchers and students of adoption and child welfare.

What you will find in this book

The study showcases a range of articles and chapters, including:

  • Identity and security in adoption and long-term fostering
  • Perceptions of permanence
  • Social work supervision of young people
  • Foster carers who cease to foster
  • Intercountry adoption: global trade or global gift?
  • Long-term foster care or adoption? - the evidence examined
  • Contact between looked after children and their birth parents


Editor

Malcolm Hill is Emeritus Professor of Social Work at the University of Strathclyde, formerly Director of the Glasgow Centre for the Child and Society at the University of Glasgow. He has worked as a social worker, and collaborated on a number of studies with John Triseliotis on adoption and children looked after in public care.

 

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Reviews

For those who already familiar with the territory, this is a valuable reminder of how we got to where we are now, and how good research can influence the direction of travel. For those new to learning about the field, it provides valuable context and an opportunity to reflect on the complexity of the ideas of ‘permanence’, and indeed of ‘family’. The value of the book perhaps lies particularly in the way Triseliotis interweaves research findings, consideration of policies and practices, and their impact on children and families. These articles provide a model of thinking which links ethical awareness and research skills with practical good sense…This book showcases the contribution made by one researcher to a whole area of ethically and practically complex social work practice. In doing so, it demonstrates how much influence research and critique can have on law and policy, and how much value on person can add through their influence on a process that has such profound impact on individual experience.

Penelope Welbourne, Associate Professor of Social Work, Plymouth University, Practice vol. 27

The real joy and pleasure of this collection is to read high quality research written in a clear and accessible language and which offers help and direction to anyone working in the field…The contents of the collection are of real value and deserve to be on the shelves of all social workers –they are written to be read – and so should not just remain there but be taken off the shelf and dipped into on a regular basis.

Maggie Jackson, Senior Lecturer in Social Work, Teesside University - Journal of Social WOrk