Everything you need to know about fostering and adoption - information and resources for people who are thinking of fostering or who are already foster carers, as well as for people who are thinking of adopting or who are adoptive parents. There is also advice and support for birth parents and for adults who were adopted or in care.
Fostering titles
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Thinking about fostering?
Packed with essential information and advice, this book provides a realistic and honest insight into what it means to look after other people’s children and provide a safe and supportive home.
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Promoting resilience
This bestselling guide contains inspirational ideas and suggestions for promoting resilience in day-to-day work with children and young people in care, adopted or in need.
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Managing difficult behaviour
This guide aims to provide foster carers with new skills to help them manage a child’s behaviour and improve their relationship with him or her.
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Being a foster family: what it means and how it feels
This short, colourful booklet is part of CoramBAAF’s series of publications for children and young people, which aim to explain concepts in adoption and fostering that they may find difficult to understand.
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Adoption titles
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Adopting a child
This beginner’s guide is the book for anyone considering adopting in England, Northern Ireland and Wales. This book will guide you through the adoption process, reflecting current legislation and guidance, with real life adoption stories.
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Our adoption journey
Published as part of the Our Story series, this is the true story of Jayne, Dan, their son Charlie, and their adoption of Jessie, a baby girl. Told by Jayne, this memoir follows the joyful highs and heartbreaking lows of the journey that led them to their new adopted daughter.
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The adopter’s handbook
NEW 2018 EDITION. Thinking about, or in the process of, adopting a child? Read this book to prepare for the experience of adoption, find the right resources to help you and feel more in control through the ups and downs along the way.
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Related by adoption
This useful handbook introduces grandparents-to-be and other relatives to information about adoption today. It offers some facts about the children who need to be adopted and discusses how the wider family can support and be involved in building a family through adoption.
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Supporting the mental health of looked after and adopted children
This Good Practice Guide for social workers translates the theoretical concepts and research about children’s mental health into straightforward language and practical advice. Taking a holistic and attachment-focused approach, it demonstrates how to understand children’s background and current events, rather than focusing on diagnostic criteria and labels.
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