Developing Adoption Support and Therapy: New Approaches for Practice

Developing Adoption Support and Therapy New Approaches for Practice 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 research and legislation on adoption support accessible to therapists, parents, social work practitioners and managers alike.Additional ISBNs9781843101468Developing Adoption Support and Therapy: New Approaches for Practice is written by Barry Luckock; Angie Hart and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. ISBNs for Developing Adoption Support and Therapy are 9781846420214, 1846420210 and the print ISBNs are 9781849851107, 1849851107. Additional ISBNs include 9781843101468.