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  • Residential Child Care

    Prospects and Challenges

    Series series Research Highlights in Social Work
    Residential Child Care draws on the latest research to offer guidance for developing best practice, policy and improved outcomes for children and young people.Contributors examine important aspects of residential care work, and address the concerns about the poor outcomes for young people leaving care and the role of residential child care as a positive choice within the range of care services. ... Leer más

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  • A Guide to Therapeutic Child Care

    What You Need to Know to Create a Healing Home

    A Guide to Therapeutic Child Care provides an easy to read explanation of the secrets that lie behind good quality therapeutic child care.It describes relevant theories, the 'invisible' psychological challenges that children will often struggle with and how to develop a nurturing relationship and build trust. Combining advice with practical strategies, the book also provides specific guidance on ... Leer más

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    The second edition of A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health provides a comprehensive review of the sociology of mental health. Chapters by leading scholars and researchers present an overview of historical, social and institutional frameworks. Part I examines social factors that shape psychiatric diagnosis and the measurement of mental health and illness, theories that explain the definition ... Leer más

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  • Nobody’s Son

    All Alex ever wanted was a family of his own

    de Cathy Glass ...
    Born in a prison and removed from his drug-dependent mother, rejection is all that 7-year-old Alex knows.When Cathy is asked to foster little Alex, aged 7, her immediate reaction is: Why can’t he stay with his present carers for the last month? He’s already had many moves since coming into care as a toddler and he’ll only be with her a short while before he goes to live with his permanent adoptive ... Leer más

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  • Professional Boundaries in Social Work and Social Care

    A Practical Guide to Understanding, Maintaining and Managing Your Professional Boundaries

    de Frank Cooper ...
    Professional boundaries between worker and client underpin all areas of practice in social work and social care, and the mismanagement of these boundaries can lead to unprofessional conduct and negative consequences for both worker and client.This book is a no-nonsense guide to boundaries – what they are, why they are there and how to maintain them, from legal boundaries and policies governing ... Leer más

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  • The Girl No One Wanted

    The heartbreaking true story of a child with no home to call her own

    Series Libro 8 - A Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story
    Eleven-year-old Leanne is out of control. Since being taken into care at the age of three, she has had over forty placements, each carer less able to cope with her anger and destruction than the last. Late one night, foster carer Maggie Hartley receives a terrified call from Leanne's current placement, who has barricaded herself in her bathroom to protect herself from Leanne's rage. With the ... Leer más

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  • Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew

    "Birthdays may be difficult for me.""I want you to take the initiative in opening conversations about my birth family.""When I act out my fears in obnoxious ways, please hang in there with me.""I am afraid you will abandon me."The voices of adopted children are poignant, questioning. And they tell a familiar story of loss, fear, and hope. This extraordinary book, written by a woman who was adopted ... Leer más

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  • The Adoption of Daniel

    de Dee Phillips ...
    Adopting a child is one of the most rewarding experiences of one's life. However, it is not an easy undertaking or one to be taken lightly. The process can be daunting. If you have ever wanted to adopt a child, you may be interested in this true story of adoption. Here is the account of the adoption of Daniel. ... Leer más

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  • To the End of June

    The Intimate Life of American Foster Care

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    A New York Times Notable Book that "casts a searing eye on the labyrinth that is the American foster care system" (NPR's On Point).Who are the children of foster care? What, as a country, do we owe them? Cris Beam, a foster mother herself, spent five years immersed in the world of foster care looking into these questions and tracing firsthand stories. The result is To the End of June, an ... Leer más

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  • Shameless

    The Fight for Adoption Disclosure and the Search for My Son

    In the late 1960s, at the age of eighteen and living far from home amidst the thriving counterculture of Ottawa, Marilyn Churley got pregnant. Like thousands of other women of the time she kept the event a secret. Faced with few options, she gave the baby up for adoption.Over twenty years later, as the Ontario NDP government’s minister responsible for all birth, death, and adoption records, ... Leer más

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  • Yes You Can!

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    Every time our society takes steps forward, segregation becomes illegal, child labor is exposed, and companies that poison our air are called to account. Behind those steps are people who identified problems, worked together, and created change. Lifelong environmental activists, Jane Drake and Ann Love present the nine steps to social change and much more. From fascinating accounts about the ... Leer más

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  • The Things I Want Most

    The Extraordinary Story of a Boy's Journey to a Family of His Own

    The remarkable story of a couple who risked everything to open their home--and their hearts--to answer an abandoned child's wish.It was a small note buried in the file of a deeply troubled eleven-year-old boy--a plea for a normal life Rich and Sue Miniter couldn't ignore:The Things I Want MOST:A familyA fishing poleA familyThe Miniters heard in that simple note the voice of a frightened child who ... Leer más

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