This book highlights the complexities and multi-dimensionalities of child adoption in India by challenging the prevalent adoption theories. It is the only book to lend a voice to adopted children and adults. It foregrounds the narratives of adoptive...Loe edasi...
Combining professional practice, the science behind it, and powerful lived experiences, this book offers a true insight into cultivating belonging as an antidote to trauma. It is an essential read for all those who are supporting children and young...Loe edasi...
This accessible guide provides a detailed, practical understanding of how to support Children Looked After (CLA), exploring identity and challenging views. It is key reading for all professionals including those within education and social work, as...Loe edasi...
This book discusses child wishes, rights and participation in the foster care system. It discusses the two major legal frameworks, best interest and normalcy, for which foster care decisions are made and how those frameworks might shape how child we...Loe edasi...
This groundbreaking and thought-provoking book puts the care experience at the centre of education history. It provides historical insight to the growing field of care studies and reveals how nineteenth century assumptions and prejudices about care-...Loe edasi...
Aging Out of the Foster System: Youths Perspectives provides a crucial and important narrative of the lived experiences of young people leaving foster care....Loe edasi...
This important book offers unique insight into the experience of foster youths from twenty-three countries around the world. It provides a survey of literature reporting the experiences of youth in care, addressing a wide range of key topics in this...Loe edasi...
This book connects adoption/foster care with human rights, Critical Adoption Studies, Reproductive Justice, and transnational feminisms....Loe edasi...
The Routledge Critical Adoption Studies Reader presents fundamental questions about how adoption, as a complex practice of family-making, is represented in art, philosophy, the law, history, literature, political science, and other humanities....Loe edasi...
In the 1980s families other than those made up of the natural mother, father, and siblings were increasing. First published in 1988, this book looks at these alternative families and considers the psychological and social consequences of growing up...Loe edasi...
Another Mother gives voice to women who become mothers through the routes of adoption, surrogacy and egg donation, and their silent partners the birth mothers, surrogate mothers and egg donors who make motherhood possible for them....Loe edasi...
With a triadic perspective, this autoethnographic narrative explores the temporal, situated nature of interactions between the author as an adoptee with her adult adopted children as well as those between herself and her birth father and mother....Loe edasi...
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 48....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1970, this book is an account of a four-year project in which International Social Service of Great Britain joined with Bedford College, London University, to provide a first-class adoption service for babies born in Britain...Loe edasi...
First published in 1966, this study assembled the past experience of foster care in one area, analysed it and presented it in such a way that predictions could be made of the outcome of a potential placement. It offered an important contribution to...Loe edasi...
Based on field studies and in-depth interviews across rural and urban China, this book presents a socio-legal analysis of non-state organised care for some of Chinas most vulnerable children....Loe edasi...
This title was first published in 2001. A systematic study of non-relative adoption in Hong Kong. It examines the changing profile of non-relative adoption between 1987 and 1993, from the authors analysis of 486 case files....Loe edasi...
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....Loe edasi...
Life story work is a term often used to describe an approach that helps looked after and adopted children to talk and learn about their life experiences with the help of a trusted adult. This book is an essential step-by-step guide for carers and pr...Loe edasi...
