Developing Adoption Support And Therapy: New Approaches For Practice

by Hart, Angie; LUCKOCK, BARRY

• ISBN13: 9781843101468
• ISBN10: 1843101467
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-11-01
• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Pub

Summary

Adoption is currently taking centre stage in family policy in the UK and USA, with new legislation that places emphasis on providing and maintaining permanent family homes for children separated from their families of origin. This book explores the challenges of adoption and how best to support families coping with these demands. Angie Hart and Barry Luckock draw together adoptive parents' experiences, professional practice and empirical research to provide an integrative account of adoption support services. Using three fictional families, they illustrate issues such as the adoption of older children, single, lesbian and gay adoptive parenting and the importance of openness in adoptive relationships. The authors bring sociological and anthropological perspectives to bear on current developmental psychology models of trauma and attachment and examine the effectiveness of various therapeutic interventions. Developing Adoption Support and Therapy will make current resear

Author Biography

Angie Hart is a principal lecturer in the Faculty of Health at the University of Brighton.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	7	(2)
Adoption Today	9	(24)
Understanding Adoptive Childhood and Family Life: Family Practices and Narratives as the Context for Adoption Support	33	(22)
Adoption Support: The Legal and Organisational Framework for Practice	55	(24)
`Someone There for Us': The Adoption Support Services Adviser in Context	79	(28)
Facilitating `Good Enough' Adoptive Parenting Through Formal Therapeutic Interventions	107	(30)
`Holding Multiple Families in Mind': Enabling Open Communication in Adoptive Kinship	137	(30)
Developing Communities of Adoptive Practice	167	(26)
References	193	(20)
Subject Index	213	(8)
Author Index	221