Parenting Matters: Parenting a child with emotional and behavioural difficulties
£10.95
Due to their early experiences of loss and trauma, many adopted and looked after children experience emotional and behavioural difficulties. If you are parenting an affected child, this guide will give you practical and realistic information on what these difficulties may be. It also covers their symptoms, prognosis and treatment.
The first half of this guide provides expert knowledge coupled with facts, figures and guidance presented in a straightforward and accessible style. It explains emotional and behavioural difficulties and what these terms mean for children.
In the second half of the guide, a foster carer and adoptive parents describe what it is like to parent an affected child and how this affected day-to-day family life, sharing their experience and offering useful advice.
This book is part of CoramBAAF’s Parenting Matters series which explores many of the health conditions commonly diagnosed in looked after children.
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Reviews
This book is fantastic. It explains developmental trauma in a really accessible way and provides guidance on how to manage a child with developmental trauma. It is clearly, succinctly and coherently written, very accessible for professionals, foster carers, adopters etc. It is also very quick to read – always a bonus in a busy life! A foster carer and an adopter also write a chapter each at the end which is really helpful in terms of applying the theory bit.
Myra Baker, five stars, Amazon.co.uk
The author’s knowledge and experience about the subject is manifest but he also has the skills to make the theory and concepts accessible, relating them to everyday life with troubled children. The author adopts a compassionate stance throughout and encourages a deeper understanding of behaviours, rather than merely providing management techniques.
Catherine Webley, independent social worker and children’s guardian, Seen and Heard
As someone who has been a foster carer for more than a decade and now about to adopt a 6-year-old child I can honestly say this book is worth its weight in gold. It makes complete sense to me and provides a really useful way of thinking about and actually living with parenting a child with emotional and behavioural difficulties.
Shenat, five stars, Amazon.co.uk