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Parenting Matters: Parenting a child with emotional and behavioural difficulties

| Dan Hughes

This book is part of CoramBAAF’s Parenting Matters series which explores many of the health conditions commonly diagnosed in looked after children. For adopters and foster carers, this guide provides practical and realistic information on caring for a child with emotional and behavioural difficulties. It covers symptoms, prognosis and treatment and offers personal insight and advice from adoptive and foster families.

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Planning for contact in permanent placements

| Paul Adams

This Good Practice Guide is designed to assist social workers and managers in planning for contact. It aims to help practitioners to formulate well thought out contact plans; make informed decisions resulting in improved outcomes for children; present well-argued and reasoned justifications for the contact plans set out in written reports, and feel more confident in recommending particular contact plans

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Parenting Matters: Parenting a child affected by parental substance misuse

| Donald Forrester

This book is part of CoramBAAF’s Parenting Matters series which explores many of the health conditions commonly diagnosed in looked after children. This guide explores general issues around substance misuse and children entering care, as well as the impact on children of exposure to substances during pregnancy, and possible effects on children at different ages and stages of development. It provides expert knowledge coupled with facts, figures and guidance presented in a straightforward and accessible style.

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Rethinking matching in adoptions from care

| David Quinton

This groundbreaking conceptual and research review summarises the beliefs and principles on which matching is currently based, the evidence of its effectiveness, and the research that can guide the development of the matching process. It provides essential and thought-provoking reading for practitioners which will spark a rethinking of matching practice.

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Once upon a time…

| Joan Moore

Once upon a time... provides help and resources for those undertaking direct work with children. It contains a rich compendium of stories and drama - original, adapted, popular and made up by children - which explore how using storytelling and play in direct work with children can help both parents/carers and their child to build rapport and improve their relationship.

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Finding our familia

| Stevan Whitehead

Published as part of the Our Story series, this is the story of the adoption of two children from Guatemala. But it is more than that. It is a moving and inspirational account of how a couple, in their search to build their family, find not only two children but what will become their extended family – their familia.

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Supporting direct contact after adoption

| Elsbeth Neil, Jeanette Cossar, Christine Jones, Paula Lorgelly and Julie Young

This book outlines the findings of the Supporting Contact study, which draws on the experiences of 51 adoptive parents, four long-term foster carers and 39 birth relatives, all involved in agency-supported direct post-adoption contact It is the first ever empirical study specifically looking at services to support direct post-adoption contact.

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Ten top tips for identifying neglect

| Pat Beesley

The Ten Top Tips series considers some of the fundamental themes in child care practice in concise, practical guides ideal for busy practitioners. This quick reference guide will help workers to consider their role in identifying and responding to child neglect.

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Undertaking a fostering assessment in Scotland

| Roger Chapman and Marjorie Morrison

This guide is designed to help social workers to manage and complete a comprehensive and evidence-based assessment of prospective applicants who want to foster a child or children. It is to be used by assessing social workers to complete a Prospective Foster Carer’s Report using the CoramBAAF Form F (for Scotland).