Assessing adoptive and foster parents : improving analysis and understanding of parenting capacity /: improving analysis and understanding of parenting capacity. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Joanne Alper and David Howe ; foreword by John Simmonds.
• Editors: Alper, Joanne; Howe, David, 1946-
• Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction, Joanne Alper, Adoptionplus. Chapter 2: Why are you frightened of being parented? Understanding developmental trauma, Kim S. Golding, Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust. Chapter 3: The home study and assessment of applicants: research evidence, Julie Selwyn, University of Bristol. Chapter 4: Adoptionplus: a new agency, a new approach, Joanne Alper, Adoptionplus. Chapter 5: Parenting well and staying well: understanding the qualities needed for parenting children with developmental trauma, Kim S. Golding and Ben Gurney-Smith, Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust and Adoptionplus. Chapter 6: Understanding developmental trauma, parental attachments, caregiving and PACE, Dan Hughes, Quittie GlenCenter for Mental Health. Chapter 7: The parenting brain, John Baylin, Norman Broudy MD & Associates. Chapter 8: Reflective functioning and parenting, John Baylin, Norman Broudy MD & Associates. Chapter 9: Conclusion, David Howe, University of East Anglia.
• Publisher Details: London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 362.733; Adoptive parents; Adopted children; Foster home care; Foster parents; Foster children; Social work with children -- United States
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857009159
• Related ISBNs: 085700915X; 9781849055062
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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