Adoption & Fostering

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907585715Author Eileen FurslandFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF)Publisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551526317Author Marion CrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press

Intercountry adoption represents a significant component of international migration; in recent years, up to 45,000 children have crossed borders annually as part of the intercountry adoption boom. Proponents have touted intercountry adoption as a natural...

Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon and Andrew Fitz-Gibbon have cared for more than 100 children in a foster care career spanning more than three decades. They developed a method, "loving nonviolent re-parenting," to best care for foster children. "Re-parenting"...

For too long, divorce and remarriage literature has focused only on the outcome in the personal lives of the divorcees during and after divorce. But now, in Child Custody: Legal Decisions and Family Outcomes, you'll see that divorce is a chain reaction...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789059113152Author Geeri BakkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Aspekt B.V., UitgeverijPublisher Aspekt B.V., UitgeverijWeight(grams) 366g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926971032Author Bruce GillespieFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Heritage House Publishing Co LtdPublisher Heritage House Publishing Co...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925950793Author Penny MackiesonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Spinifex PressPublisher Spinifex Press

The Children Money Can Buy covers decades of dramatic societal change in foster care and adoption, including the pendulum swings regarding open adoption and attitudes toward birth parents, the gradual acceptance of gay and lesbian adoption, the...

This practice-focused guide introduces The SmartStart Toolbox as a remedial program to help mental health professionals and adoptive parents promote the educational and social development of internationally adopted children aged 4–8. Recognizing the...

This practice-focused guide introduces The SmartStart Toolbox as a remedial program to help mental health professionals and adoptive parents promote the educational and social development of internationally adopted children aged 4 - 8. Recognizing...

What is it like to be adopted, have your identity changed and never feel quite at home in your new family, despite being loved? What is it like to become a social worker and be faced with the challenges and consequences of other adoptions every day? What...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781600061653Author Thomas AtwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint NavPress Publishing GroupPublisher NavPress Publishing Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734592139Author Jelani H BraceyFormat HardbackPage Count 26Imprint Jhb PublishingPublisher Jhb PublishingWeight(grams) 203g

Investigates social parents - people who function as parents but who may not be recognized as such in the eyes of the law What makes a person a parent? Around the world, same-sex couples are raising children; parents are separating and re-partnering,...

The Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA), which became law in 1997, elicited a major shift in federal policy and thinking toward child welfare, emphasizing children's safety, permanency, and well-being over preserving biological ties at all costs. The...

While many proponents of transracial adoption claim that American society is increasingly becoming "color-blind," a growing body of research reveals that for transracial adoptees of all backgrounds, racial identity does matter. Rhonda M. Roorda...

Call on men's hidden strengths to help them become responsible fathers in even the most challenging circumstances!Clinical and Educational Interventions with Fathers gives you fresh approaches for effective interventions with fathers. Whether by calling...

Since the early 1990s, transnational adoptions have increased at an astonishing rate, not only in the United States, but worldwide. In "Belonging in an Adopted World", Barbara Yngvesson offers a penetrating exploration of the consequences and...

How do you create an adoption portfolio that will show prospective birth families why you are the perfect adoptive parent for their child? Do you know which pictures to include and which to leave out? Do you really understand what prospective birth...

Chaos. Frustration. Compassion. Desperation. Hope. These are the five words that author Wendy Welch says best summarize the state of foster care in the coalfields of Appalachia. Her assessment is based on interviews with more than sixty social workers,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Benjamin Franklin Award (Parenting) 2019.Book InformationISBN 9781610022156Author Elaine E. Schulte, MD, MPH, FAAPFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint...

With essays by well-known adoption practitioners and researchers who source empirical research and practical knowledge, this volume addresses key developmental, cultural, health, and behavioral issues in the transracial and international adoption process...

Engaging and Working with African American Fathers: Strategies and Lessons Learned challenges traditional and historic practices and policies that have systematically excluded fathers and contributed to social and health disparities among this population...

Narrative and Dramatic Approaches to Children's Life Story with Foster, Adoptive and Kinship Families outlines narrative and dramatic approaches to improve vulnerable family relationships. It provides a model which offers new ways for parents to practise...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997948363Author Damon DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Damon Davis Vocal and Visual, LLCPublisher Damon Davis Vocal and Visual,...

This is a book written by a birth mother about a daughter who is put up for adoption by her own parents without a thought for her own feelings. A family unit of a mother, father and two sisters wait to be re-united. It is a story spanning forty years of...

Becoming a Foster Family is a look into the eyes of a young boy whose family becomes a foster family. Finally a book to help prepare children for the amazing role they play in sharing the love of Jesus with kids in the foster care system. The outcome is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998759784Author James Poindexter IIIFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Suzy PruddenPublisher Suzy PruddenWeight(grams) 54gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578375953Author Kathleen M PaydoFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Kathleen M Paydo, LLCPublisher Kathleen M Paydo, LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786050588Author Mari GallagherFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Orpen PressPublisher Orpen Press

This book investigates the experiences of South Koreans adopted into Western families and the complexity of what it means to "feel identity" beyond what is written in official adoption files. Korean Adoptees and Transnational Adoption is based on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903699195Author Julie SelwynFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF)Publisher CoramBAAFWeight(grams)...

Dancing Motherhood explores how unique factors about the dance profession impact pregnant women and mothers working in it.Ali Duffy introduces the book by laying a foundation of social and cultural histories and systemic structures and power that shape...

An essential resource for transracially adoptive parents and the professionals who serve them, this book offers practical strategies for helping a transracially adopted child through the challenges he or she may face. Anchored in a qualitative study of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807028278Author Joyce Maguire PavaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943050659Author Anne BiggsFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Paradigm Hall PressPublisher Paradigm Hall PressWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

"The Everything Parent's Guide to Raising the Adopted Child" offers all the essential information any potential and new adoptive parent might need.This essential guidebook is packed with reassuring advice on how to handle the most common issues facing...

Many foster and adoptive parents lose hope when they experience challenging and oppositional child behaviors. This book gives parents the tools and strategies to respond to these outbursts - particularly those that stem from a child's potentially...

A powerful, moving true story from Sunday Times bestseller, Maggie Hartley, Britain's most-loved foster carerWhen newborn baby Felix is found abandoned at a train station, the police launch a desperate search for his mother. It doesn't take long for...