Facilitating Meaningful Contact in Adoption and Fostering
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Facilitating Meaningful Contact in Adoption and Fostering

A Trauma-Informed Approach to Planning, Assessing and Good Practice

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eBook - ePub

Facilitating Meaningful Contact in Adoption and Fostering

A Trauma-Informed Approach to Planning, Assessing and Good Practice

About this book

Most children who are fostered or adopted have some level of contact with their birth family -- whether face-to-face or by letter -- yet most of the time the psychological impact of contact on the child isn't considered.

This book explores what attachment, neuroscience and trauma tell us about how contact affects children, and shows how poorly executed contact can be unhelpful or even harmful to the child. Assessment frameworks are provided which take the child's developmental needs into account. The authors also outline a model for managing and planning contact to make it more purposeful and increase its potential for therapeutic benefit. The book covers the challenges presented by the internet for managing contact, unique issues for children in kinship care, problems that arise when adoptive parents separate and many other key issues for practice.

Brimming with practical advice and creative solutions, this is an indispensable tool for social workers, contact centre workers, and other professionals involved in contact arrangements or the therapeutic support of fostered and adopted children.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Of Related Interest
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword by Kim S. Golding
  7. About Adoptionplus
  8. Preface
  9. 1 Introduction
  10. 2 How to Facilitate Contact
  11. 3 Understanding the Significance of Attachment and Neuroscience for Baby and Toddler Contact
  12. 4 Contact during the Transition from Care Order to Permanency
  13. 5 Contact with Foster Carers: Moving from Foster Care into Adoption
  14. 6 Letterbox Contact
  15. 7 Contact Using Video Messages
  16. 8 Sibling Relationships and Facilitating Sibling Contact
  17. 9 Contact for Adopted Children with Adoptive Parents who have Separated or Divorced
  18. 10 Where Contact is not Possible: Contact for Children who are not Able to Meet their Birth Parents or Family
  19. 11 Contact with Young People
  20. 12 Contact in Kinship Care
  21. Appendix: Developmental Stages of Understanding and Adjustment
  22. Endnotes
  23. Index
  24. Also available