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Supporting Parents eBook Series

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  • Foster Placements

    Why They Succeed and Why They Fail

    by Ian Gibbs, Ian Sinclair, Kate Wilson ...
    Series series Supporting Parents
    How can we determine success in foster placements? Based on exhaustive research, the authors discuss the primary concerns in foster placement planning, considering the high frequency of placement breakdowns, their impact on the child's behaviour and school performance, and the challenges this places on foster families.The specific needs of the foster child are given close attention in determining ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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  • My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward

    A Memoir

    by Mark Lukach ...
    International BestsellerA heart-wrenching, yet hopeful, memoir of a young marriage that is redefined by mental illness and affirms the power of love.Mark and Giulia’s life together began as a storybook romance. They fell in love at eighteen, married at twenty-four, and were living their dream life in San Francisco. When Giulia was twenty-seven, she suffered a terrifying and unexpected psychotic ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Toddler Adoption

    The Weaver's Craft

    by Mary Hopkins-Best ...
    Toddler Adoption looks at the unique joys and challenges of adopting and parenting a toddler. When a child aged is adopted between the ages of 12 to 36 months, they often show signs of cognitive and emotional immaturity, which can cause behavioral and relational issues. This book offers support and practical tools to help parents prepare for and support the toddler's transition between the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Fostering Nation?

    Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage

    by Veronica Strong-Boag ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
    Fostering Nation? Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage explores the missteps and the promise of a century and more of child protection efforts by Canadians and their governments. It is the first volume to offer a comprehensive history of what life has meant for North America’s most disadvantaged Aboriginal and newcomer girls and boys.Gender, class, race, and (dis)ability are ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Wuhu Diary

    On Taking My Adopted Daughter Back to Her Hometown in China

    by Emily Prager ...
    In 1994 an American writer named Emily Prager met her new daughter LuLu. All she knew about her was that the baby had been born in Wuhu, a city in southern China, and left near a police station in her first three days of life. Her birth mother had left a note with Lulu's western and lunar birth dates. In 1999 Emily and her daughter–now a happy, fearless four-year-old--returned to China to find out ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • First Steps in Parenting the Child who Hurts

    Tiddlers and Toddlers Second Edition

    by Caroline Archer ...
    `This excellent book looks at the attachment and development of very young children in the fostering and adoption situation. It deals sensitively and practically with the young child's "hurts" to help adopters and foster carers understand and cope with the many traumas they may experience in integrating a young child into their family. Caroline Archer is a real adoptive parent speaking from ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • How It Feels to Be Adopted

    by Jill Krementz ...
    In these wonderfully straightforward accounts of what it means to children to be adopted, nineteen boys and girls, from eight to sixteen years old—and from every social background—confide their feelings about this crucial fact of their lives. It is deeply affecting to listen to these children as they reveal their questions, frustrations, difficulties, and joys with an honesty that is immediate, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • A Practical Guide to Caring for Children and Teenagers with Attachment Difficulties

    by Chris Taylor ...
    This book guides childcare professionals through attachment theory and provides techniques for caring for children with attachment difficulties.It explains what attachment is, what different patterns of attachment look like in children and young people, how early attachment experiences affect their lives, and how this understanding can help childcare workers to develop therapeutic ways of caring. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Foster Parent Handbook

    by Mary R. Rapshaw ...
    BECOME A FOSTER PARENT A mom, dad, house and dog do not make a home. Everyday, there are children who experience this sad fact when they are removed from their home due to neglect or abuse. Not every foster child has a foster family. In some regions, foster children must wait for long periods of time in shelter care. More than one-half million children in the United States rely on foster families ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Life Story Therapy with Traumatized Children

    A Model for Practice

    by Richard Rose ...
    Life Story Therapy is an approach designed to enable children to explore, question and understand the past events of their lives. It aims to secure their future through strengthening attachment with their carers and providing the opportunity to develop a healthy sense of self and a feeling of wellbeing.This comprehensive overview lays out the theory underlying life story therapy, including an ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Right To Be Loved

    by S. Matthew Liao ...
    S. Matthew Liao argues here that children have a right to be loved. To do so he investigates questions such as whether children are rightholders; what grounds a child's right to beloved; whether love is an appropriate object of a right; and other philosophical and practical issues. His proposal is that all human beings have rights to the fundamental conditions for pursuing a good life; therefore, ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • Next Steps in Parenting the Child Who Hurts

    Tykes and Teens

    by Caroline Archer ...
    Written by an experienced adoptive parent, this clear, sensitive and practical handbook is designed to encourage and support adoptive and long-term foster parents, their children and adolescents. An adopted child may well have suffered abuse, neglect or inconsistent parenting in the past; he or she will certainly have experienced painful separations and losses. These early traumatic experiences, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD