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Welcome to Fostering: A Guide to Becoming and Being a Foster Carer [Pehme köide]

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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 224 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 216x138x20 mm, kaal: 220 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 08-May-2017
  • Kirjastus: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
  • ISBN-10: 1785922041
  • ISBN-13: 9781785922046
Teised raamatud teemal:
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 224 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 216x138x20 mm, kaal: 220 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 08-May-2017
  • Kirjastus: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
  • ISBN-10: 1785922041
  • ISBN-13: 9781785922046
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What should you expect when you're expecting to foster? This book is a guide to taking the first critical steps of your fostering journey, explaining what fostering is, how to become a foster carer and what it takes to thrive.

Combining invaluable advice from veteran foster carers, the expertise of the professionals who support them, and priceless experiences of foster children themselves, this book explains the fostering process step by step. It tackles all the questions that you've ever asked yourself about fostering: What is fostering really like? What are the challenges? What kind of difference could I make?

Comprehensive and accessible, this is the companion for first-time fosterers or those considering foster care.

Arvustused

This is an important and timely book, which sets out both the challenges and the achievements of foster carers' day-by-day work. -- The Rt. Hon. The Lord Laming This beautiful quote will stay with me forever:

"Always make sure they have a blanket when they leave. Don't wash it, as it needs to have a familiar smell to help them settle. Even our 16-year old took a blanket with her." -- Dr.h.c Jenny Molloy, Author, Adviser and Trainer for Looked After Children, Care Leavers Patron for The British Association of Social Workers England This is a great guide, packed full of information and insight about how best to navigate the world of fostering. -- Isabelle Trowler, Chief Social Worker for Children It's the book I wish I'd had when I was considering fostering and in my first few years. -- Maxine Taylor, Foster carer

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The comprehensive handbook focused on the everyday practicalities of being a foster carer
Foreword 9(2)
Lorraine Pascale
Unorthodox Beginnings 11(2)
O.B. Solomon
Introduction 13(2)
Andy Elvin
1 So You Want to be a Foster Carer?
15(14)
Bev Pickering
2 Becoming a Foster Carer
29(20)
Andy Elvin
3 How Do Children Become Fostered?
49(14)
Andy Elvin
Louise Cox
4 Through the Eyes of the Foster Child
63(10)
Andy Elvin and numerous foster children
5 Your First Placement
73(22)
Martin Barrow
6 Training and Behaviour Management
95(10)
Martin Clarke
7 Allegations -- How to Handle Them and What to Expect
105(10)
Andy Elvin
8 Managing Contact
115(12)
Martin Barrow
Andy Elvin
9 The Birth Parents' Perspective
127(6)
A safeguarding survivor
10 Working with the Professional Network
133(18)
Yvonne Smith
Jon Fayle
Andy Elvin
11 Special Guardianship Orders
151(20)
Andy Elvin
John Simmonds
12 Well-Being
171(6)
Andy Elvin
13 Endings
177(28)
Martin Barrow
14 `Heroes of the State' -- The Difference Fostering Can Make
205(8)
Andy Elvin
Martin Barrow
Appendix: The Foster Carers' Charter 213(7)
Contributors 220(3)
Case Study Contributors 223
Andy Elvin is CEO of the UK's largest fostering and adoption charity, TACT.

Martin Barrow is an experienced journalist, formerly News Editor of the Times, PR, Huffington Post, foster carer and foster care commentator/blogger.