Adoption & Fostering is the only quarterly peer-reviewed journal dedicated to adoption, fostering and kinship issues. Over the years, it has gained an international reputation as one of the world’s leading sources of knowledge for academics, practitioners and all those concerned with childcare practice and research.

Edited by Dr Dennis GolmAdoption & Fostering is published by SAGE on behalf of the CoramBAAF Adoption & Fostering Academy.

Volume 47 (Issue 4, December 2023)

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Editorial

Deinstitutionalisation: A global effort to improve developmental outcomes for children
Dennis Golm

Articles

Interrupting a cycle of placement instability with short-term residential care: Trauma-informed family-like relational practice in one specialist unit
Mandi MacDonald, Kathryn Gillespie

A Compassion-Focused Therapy group for young people who live in foster, adoptive or kinship care: Initial development, reflections, and ways forward
Alex Lau-Zhu, Lydia Vella

When people adopted from severely depriving institutions become parents: The experiences of young adult mothers from the ERA study and their adoptive parents
Christopher Edwards, Mark Kennedy, Nicky Knights, Hanna Kovshoff, Jana Kreppner, Barbara Maughan, Edmund JS Sonuga-Barke

A heavy weight, yet empowering: Grandparent Special Guardians’ lived experiences of the role and family dynamics - An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA)
Stacey Rose O’ Sullivan-Hayes, Yvonne Melia, Faiza Nazir

Fostering wellbeing: Placing foster carers centre stage
Alyson Rees, Nina Maxwell, Jillian Powell, Cindy Corliss, Asma Khan, Chloe O’Donnell

Legal Notes

England and Wales

Health Notes

Ascertaining risk of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder at initial health assessments for children in care
Layla Beckett, Michelle Bond

 

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