Therapeutic Stories for Foster, Adoptive and Kinship Families: Addressing the Domino Effect of Issues Facing 10–14-Year-Olds
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2021
- Cover : Paperback
- Category :
Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy - Category 2 :
Child and Adolescent Studies - Catalogue No : 95478
- ISBN 13 : 9780367524371
- ISBN 10 : 9780367524
About the Author(s)
Joan E. Moore is an author, dramatherapist, play therapist and adoption support provider with foster, adoptive and kinship families. She works mainly in the family home, applying her "Theatre of Attachment" model of life-history therapy. Joan has written several books and articles and has completed a doctoral study at Leeds Beckett University, which focused on using story and drama to support these placements and is described in Narrative and Dramatic Approaches to Children's Life Story with Foster, Adoptive and Kinship Families. She supervises creative arts therapists and delivers training. Having a background in social work with children and families and Youth Justice, Joan has undertaken Expert Witness Assessments of siblings, children's care needs, parents, and assessments of prospective adoptive parents and foster and kinship carers.