Facilitating meaningful contact in adoption and fostering : a trauma-informed approach to planning, assessing and good practice /
Sydney, Louis,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- About adoptionplus -- Introduction: what is contact and what is it for? -- How to facilitate contact : a structured process -- Understanding the significance of attachment and neuroscience for baby and toddler contact -- Contact during the transition from care order to permanency -- Contact when moving from foster care into adoption -- Letterbox contact -- By rachel staff -- Contact using video messages -- Sibling relationships and facilitating sibling contact -- Contact for adopted children with adoptive parents who have separated or divorced -- Where contact is not possible : contact for children who are not able to meet their birth parents or family -- Contact with young people : the long shadow of adoption -- Contact in kinship care -- Endnotes -- Index.
Adoption.
Foster parents.
Birthparents.
Child development.