Developing Adoption Support And Therapy
Subtitle: New Approaches For Practice
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: November 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781843101468
Subjects: Child welfare; Family/Marriage; Adoptive parents; Family & Relationships; Family / Parenting / Childbirth; United States; Great Britain; Adoption; Social Work; Adopted children
Description: "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 there fictional families, they illustrate issues such as the adoption of older children, single, lesbian and gay adoptive parenting and the importance of openness in adoptive relationships. The authors bring sociological and anthropological perspectives to bear on current developmental psychology models of trauma and attachment and examine the effectiveness of various therapeutic interventions. Developing Adoption Support and Therapy will make current research and legislation on adoption support accessible to therapists, parents, social work practitioners and managers alike."--BOOK JACKET.