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A Guide to Therapeutic Child Care: What You Need to Know to Create a Healing Home - by Ruth Emond, Laura Steckley and Autumn Roesch-Marsh

£15.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781849054010 | ISBN 10: 1849054010

A Guide to Therapeutic Child Care provides an easy to read explanation of the secrets that lie behind good quality therapeutic child care. It describes relevant theories, the 'invisible' psychological challenges that children will often stru ... more
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Surviving and Thriving in Care and Beyond: Personal and Professional Perspectives - by Sara Barratt and Wendy Lobatto

£29.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781782203018 | ISBN 10: 178220301x

This is a book about children who have to grow up apart from their biological parents, the impact of this on their lives and on those who look after them, and how we can respond to the challenges this poses in order that they can grow and develop in ... more
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Games and Activities for Attaching with Your Child - by Deborah D. Gray and Megan Clarke

£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781849057950 | ISBN 10: 1849057958

Packed full of great ideas for fun games and activities, this book encourages positive attachments between a parent or carer and their child. When it comes to choosing the best games to play with children who have difficulties attaching, it ... more
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Oli and the Pink Bicycle - by Catherine Jackson

£6.95 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781910039090 | ISBN 10: 1910039098

It’s Oli’s seventh birthday – the first one since her new mamma and papa adopted her – and she’s really excited about the present she has been promised. A pink bicycle! But Oli’s special day doesn’t go to plan and she is so angry that s ... more
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Sam's Trouble with Words - by Lorna Miles

£6.95 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781910039083 | ISBN 10: 191003908x

Sam has a secret and he doesn’t want anyone to find out what it is. He has trouble reading, writing and spelling and is worried that his new foster family will not want him to stay if they find out. With the help of his carers, teachers and social ... more
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Why Can't I Be Good? - by Hedi Argent, illustrated by Rachel Fuller

£6.95 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781910039076 | ISBN 10: 1910039071

Hanna really wanted to be good. Every morning she promised herself that she would be good all day. But somehow it never worked out that way. By the time she is seven Hanna is very badly behaved, but she wants to change. She is fed up with people tell ... more
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Inside Transracial Adoption - by Beth Hall and Gail Steinberg

£15.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781849059053 | ISBN 10: 1849059055

Is transracial adoption a positive choice for kids? How can children gain their new families without losing their birth heritage? How can parents best support their children after placement? Inside Transracial Adoption is an authoritative ... more
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Life Story Work with Children Who are Fostered or Adopted: Creative Ideas and Activities - by Katie Wrench and Lesley Naylor

£14.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781849053433 | ISBN 10: 184905343x

Life story work is one of the key therapeutic approaches to working with adopted or fostered children. While it sounds simple, there is much more to this work than producing photo albums or memory boxes for children. This accessible book is ... more
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Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child - by Nancy Newton Verrier

£14.95 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781905664764 | ISBN 10: 1905664761

Since its original publication in 1993, The Primal Wound has become a classic in adoption literature and is considered the adoptees’ “bible”. It is a “must read” for adopted people, adoptive families, birth parents and adoption professional ... more
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Understanding Looked After Children: An Introduction to Psychology for Foster Care - by Jeune Guishard-Pine, Suzanne McCall and Lloyd Hamilton

£14.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781843103707 | ISBN 10: 1843103702

Understanding Looked After Children is an accessible guide to understanding the mental health needs of children in foster care and the role of foster carers and support networks in helping these children. The authors provide foster carers with an ins ... more
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One of the Family; A Handbook for Kinship Carers - by Hedi Argent

£6.50 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781903699805 | ISBN 10: 1903699800

This handbook aims to give families and friend who are kinship carers, or may become kinship carers, information about the choices they can make, the assessment process, the legal frmaework, the child care system, the support they can expect and the ... more
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Looking After Our Own; The Stories of Black and Asian Adopters - by Hope Massiah (Ed)

£9.95 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781903699706 | ISBN 10: 1903699703

Essential reading for anyone considering adopting a child, especially those from minority ethnic communities and for social services professionals concerned to recruit and retain black adopters. ... more
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Lesbian and Gay Fostering and Adoption: Extraordinary Yet Ordinary - by Edited by Stephen Hicks and Janet McDermott

£25.00 paperback (1998) - ISBN 13: 9781853026003 | ISBN 10: 185302600x

"A book written by lesbians and gay men, concerned exclusively with fostering and adoption, produced here and not in the US, is a very rare treasure! This book is immensely readable. It tells openly and honestly how it is, without resorting to jargon ... more
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