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Developing Adoption Support and Therapy: New Approaches for Practice

Barry Luckock

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Description for Developing Adoption Support and Therapy: New Approaches for Practice Paperback. This book explores the challenges of adoption and how best to support families coping with these demands. Angie Hart and Barry Luckock draw together adoptive parents' experiences, professional practice and empirical research to provide an integrative account of adoption support services. Num Pages: 196 pages. BIC Classification: JKSB1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 326.
Adoption is currently taking centre stage in family policy in the UK and USA, with new legislation that places emphasis on providing and maintaining permanent family homes for children separated from their families of origin. This book explores the challenges of adoption and how best to support families coping with these demands. Angie Hart and Barry Luckock draw together adoptive parents' experiences, professional practice and empirical research to provide an integrative account of adoption support services. Using three fictional families, they illustrate issues such as the adoption of older children, single, lesbian and gay adoptive parenting and the importance of ... Read more

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Format

Paperback

Publication date

2004

Publisher

Jessica Kingsley Pub

Number of pages

224

Condition

New

Number of Pages

224

Place of Publication

London, United Kingdom

ISBN

9781843101468

SKU

V9781843101468

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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days

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99-10

About Barry Luckock

Angie Hart is the adoptive parent of three children. She is a principal lecturer in the Faculty of Health at the University of Brighton and a therapist working in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, Southdowns Health NHS Trust, Brighton. She is a tutor on professional courses for health practitioners, and undertakes research on health and social care. Barry ... Read more

Reviews for Developing Adoption Support and Therapy: New Approaches for Practice

This is a much-needed book about the supports that are essential to adoptive families, especially those raising children who are placed at an older age out of the public systems... This book has good and clear directives for many of the people working with the family. It is a well thought-out approach, and covers a great deal of what is ... Read moreneeded to provide the best services to the adoptive parents... Ms. Hart and Mr. Luckock have given us a gem of an instruction book for child welfare workers all over... The authors have presented us with a comprehensive, and sometimes hands-on book that will make a world of difference in the training of professionals who work with adoptive families and I would recommend that adoptive parents and families read this book as well to understand how the professionals are thinking about them, and what they are calculating as their needs.
Adoption Quarterly I found this book extremely informative. In my view it takes the reader back to basics when considering the implications adoption has for a child.
CAFCASS I feel this book provides food for thought for all those involved in developing adoption support services, and may be of particular use for practitioners involved in supporting adoptive parents in finding ways of helping their children to develop their full potential.
Child and Family Social Work This book offers excellent guidelines for professionals who are involved in developing a comprehensive adoption support service, including a helpful analysis of the role of the Adoption Support Services Advisor, with suggestions for different models. There is an explanatory section about what may be expected from different kinds of therapy, an outline of the legal and organisational frame- work, a stimulating discussion about open communication in `adoptive kinship' and timely examination of the real purpose, meaning and value of life-story work'.
Adoption and Fostering The authors are not afraid to analyse or question the wisdom receiving from `adoption gurus' and they offer many examples of good practice to take into all aspects of family placement work. They remind us constantly that receiving support is not exactly the same as feeling supported.
Adoption and Fostering Hart and Luckock offer a committed, informed and expansive view of the opportunities which unfolding post-adoption services hold, while being realistic about the constraints which technical-rational social work casts over their future. As adoption support embraces more adoptive families and diverse practitioners, the book may find an audience which shares its passion and is eager to develop the `adoption competence' that it advocates as central to meeting adoptive families' needs.
British Journal of Social Work A well-argued, substantial, intelligent text, which will take thoughtful readers on in their appreciation of the complexity of adoption support. It deserves to be widely read.
BAAF A welcome breath of fresh air and common sense to the often complex issues surrounding the permanent placement of children in substitute families.
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