Attachment Handbook for Foster Care and Adoption
Book Details
- Publisher : British Agencies for Adoption & Fostering
- Published : January 2006
- Category :
Attachment Theory - Category 2 :
Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy - Catalogue No : 24657
- ISBN 13 : 9781903699966
- ISBN 10 : 1903699967
Also by Gillian Schofield
Part of the Family: Pathways Through Foster Care
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This comprehensive and authoritative book provides an accessible account of attachment concepts. It traces the pathways of secure and insecure patterns from birth to adulthood, exploring the impact of past experiences of abuse, neglect and separation on childrens behaviour in foster and adoptive families. It then explains, from an attachment perspective, the dimensions of parenting that are associated with helping children to feel more secure and to fulfil their potential in the family, with peers, at school and in the community. Finally, it tackles the key role which keeping attachment in mind can play in a range of areas of family placement practice, including contact. Vivid case examples are used to make connections with the reality, both the challenges and the rewards, of daily life in foster and adoptive families.
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Attachment is at the heart of family life and at the heart of foster care and adoption. Attachment theory and research provide a vital developmental framework for making sense of the behaviour and relationship strengths and difficulties that children bring from their complex backgrounds. It also offers a most valuable resource for understanding the kind of caregiving in foster care and adoptive families that can enable children to feel more trusting, confident, competent and secure.
This book will be an indispensable resource for practitioners, foster carers, adoptive parents and all those seeking to ensure that children in need of family care get the very best experience possible and that foster carers and adoptive parents get the support they need and deserve.
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