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William Wobbly is having a very bad day. He didn’t want to go to school and when he got there things just got worse. The wobbly feeling got bigger and bigger and BIGGER until…
Something happened to William Wobbly when he was very little which makes it hard for him to understand or control his feelings. Luckily, his new mum is here to help with his wibbly wobbly feelings.
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Based on Dan Hughes’ proven ‘PACE’ model of therapeutic parenting, this book explains how to implement PACE techniques to overcome the challenges faced by children who struggle to connect emotionally. Barriers to stable relationships such as a lack of trust, fear of emotional intimacy, and high levels of shame are all explained. It explores techniques to overcome these barriers by teaching how to support the child’s behaviour at the same time as building empathy and trust.
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Adopting a Child: A Guide for People Interested in Adoption
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Exploited: The heartbreaking true story of a teenage girl trapped in a world of abuse and violence (A Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story)
Fourteen-year-old Hannah comes to live with foster carer Maggie Hartley after her mum pleads with Social Services to take her into care, unable to cope with her daughter anymore. Previously a good student, a loving daughter and sister, Hannah is now playing truant, drinking, and taking drugs. Angry and mistrustful, it seems that nobody can reach this troubled teenager.
Maggie is used to difficult teenagers, but Hannah’s behaviour brings into question everything Maggie has ever learnt in all her years as a foster carer. Determined to push away everyone around her away, Hannah’s life seems to be spiralling out of control. But when Hannah finally breaks down and confides a shocking secret to Maggie, the truth behind her chaotic behaviour is finally revealed.
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Lesbian and Gay Fostering and Adoption: Extraordinary Yet Ordinary
Very little material exists on the experiences of gay men and lesbians who have adopted, fostered or provided respite care for children. This book presents a collection of personal accounts, based on interviews and written testimonies, by lesbian and gay parents from many different social and ethnic backgrounds. Their stories record good and bad experiences, but overall, the accounts are positive and emphasise the rewards of parenting. This book will dispel a lot of misconceptions: it will also be useful to gay men and lesbians who are thinking about adopting or fostering children.Read more
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Where’s My Mummy?: Louisa’s heart-breaking true story of family, loss and hope (A Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story)
From Sunday Times bestseller and Britain’s most-loved foster carer, Maggie Hartley, comes a new heartbreaking, powerful true story.
‘Mum and Dad. Gone?’ asked Louisa.
‘Yes,’ I nodded. ‘They’re gone.’After a horrific car crash, thirteen-year-old Louisa is left fighting for her life in hospital. She wakes to find that her loving, happy family has been shattered overnight, with both of her parents now dead. With no one to care for her, Louisa is entirely alone.
Britain’s most-loved foster carer Maggie Hartley is called in to help Louisa cope with her devastating new life. Can Maggie find a way to bond with Louisa, overwhelmed with anger and grief? Or will she regret making decisions that will affect both her and Louisa for the rest of their lives?
This is their powerful true story of love, family and connection.
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A Sister’s Shame: Two Little Girls Trapped in a Cycle of Abuse and Neglect (A Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story)
A heartbreaking, powerful true story from Sunday Times bestseller, Maggie Hartley, Britain’s most-loved foster carer. Perfect for fans of Cathy Glass and Casey Watson.
Foster carer Maggie Hartley is used to all manner of children arriving on her doorstep, but nothing can prepare her for sisters Billy and Bo when they arrive at her home. It is clear from the moment she sets eyes on them four-year-old Bo and seven-year-old Billy have clearly been subjected to unimaginable neglect, and it takes all of Maggie’s skills as a foster carer to try to connect with the volatile little girls, who seem far younger than their years.
Over time, the little girls slowly emerge from their shells, and Maggie begins the difficult task of trying to gain their trust. But as time goes on, it becomes clear that there is something much darker going on, something that will call into question everything Maggie has ever learned in all her years as a foster carer…
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Pineapple Promise: A Thailand Adoption Memoir
Love can oftentimes be the biggest motivator, and Holly and Vince’s amazing story featured in Pineapple Promise is no exception. Have you ever wondered what would prompt someone to take on such a huge commitment as adopting a child? With these two, it was love all the way. Despite having busy jobs, two children of their own, and living in an expensive region of the USA, they wanted to grow their family even more by adopting a daughter from Thailand – and seeing it through to success!If you’re looking for something witty yet meaningful, then look no further than Pineapple Promise. Written by Holly herself, this memoir takes you through her journey towards becoming adoptive parents – without her or Vince perceiving themselves as ‘saving’ anyone. Sweet, sometimes funny, and oh-so inspiring! Get a copy of Pineapple Promise today and enjoy an amazing story driven by nothing but love.
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Games and Activities for Attaching With Your Child
Packed full of great ideas for fun games and activities, this book encourages positive attachments between a parent or carer and their child.
When it comes to choosing the best games to play with children who have difficulties attaching, it is often hard to know how to play with a purpose. This book contains fun, age-appropriate games along with an explanation of why they matter. All the games included are designed for specific age ranges, from infants to older children, and help to address particular needs in children that are known to affect attachment, including fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. It provides an easy-to-understand description of attachment and reveals the crucial role that play has in forming attachments.
Written for parents and carers, as well as for use by professionals, it is full of strategies to help build healthy attachments in children who have experienced early trauma.
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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 how to create safe spaces (both physical and relational) and how to aid the development of key social or emotional skills for children which may be lacking as a result of early trauma.
Written with input from foster carers, the book is an ideal guide for residential child care workers, foster carers, kinship carers, social workers and new adoptive parents.
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China’s Hidden Children: Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy
In the thirty-five years since China instituted its One-Child Policy, 120,000 children—mostly girls—have left China through international adoption, including 85,000 to the United States. It’s generally assumed that this diaspora is the result of China’s approach to population control, but there is also the underlying belief that the majority of adoptees are daughters because the One-Child Policy often collides with the traditional preference for a son. While there is some truth to this, it does not tell the full story—a story with deep personal resonance to Kay Ann Johnson, a China scholar and mother to an adopted Chinese daughter.
Johnson spent years talking with the Chinese parents driven to relinquish their daughters during the brutal birth-planning campaigns of the 1990s and early 2000s, and, with China’s Hidden Children, she paints a startlingly different picture. The decision to give up a daughter, she shows, is not a facile one, but one almost always fraught with grief and dictated by fear. Were it not for the constant threat of punishment for breaching the country’s stringent birth-planning policies, most Chinese parents would have raised their daughters despite the cultural preference for sons. With clear understanding and compassion for the families, Johnson describes their desperate efforts to conceal the birth of second or third daughters from the authorities. As the Chinese government cracked down on those caught concealing an out-of-plan child, strategies for surrendering children changed—from arranging adoptions or sending them to live with rural family to secret placement at carefully chosen doorsteps and, finally, abandonment in public places. In the twenty-first century, China’s so-called abandoned children have increasingly become “stolen” children, as declining fertility rates have left the dwindling number of children available for adoption more vulnerable to child trafficking. In addition, government seizures of locally—but illegally—adopted children and children hidden within their birth families mean that even legal adopters have unknowingly adopted children taken from parents and sent to orphanages.
The image of the “unwanted daughter” remains commonplace in Western conceptions of China. With China’s Hidden Children, Johnson reveals the complex web of love, secrecy, and pain woven in the coerced decision to give one’s child up for adoption and the profound negative impact China’s birth-planning campaigns have on Chinese families.
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Great Answers to Difficult Questions about Adoption: What Children Need to Know
Why was I abandoned? Why did my parents adopt me? What if I want to meet my biological parents? Children who find out they are adopted have many questions that are difficult for a parent to answer. This book explores children’s thoughts and feelings and provides parents with guidance on how to respond to difficult questions. The author covers all the common questions that children ask and provides sensitive, candid answers in a way that children will be able to understand and relate to. Each chapter is devoted to a particular issue, such as why a child is adopted, who chose the children’s first name and what happens when the child grows up. The book recognizes the emotions and reactions of everyone in the family and includes separate conclusions for parents and children. This handy guide offers useful advice for parents and will also be of interest to counsellors and other professionals working with children.Read more
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Attachment Handbook for Foster Care and Adoption
This comprehensive and authoritative book, aimed at all those involved in adoption and fostering, provides an accessible account of attachment concepts.Attachment is at the heart of family life and at the heart of foster care and adoption. Attachment theory and research provide a vital developmental framework for making sense of the behaviour and relationship strengths and difficulties that children bring from their complex backgrounds. It also offers a valuable resource for understanding the kind of caregiving in foster care and adoptive families that can enable children to feel more trusting, confident, competent and secure.
This book traces the pathways of secure and insecure patterns from birth to adulthood, exploring the impact of past experiences of abuse, neglect and separation on children s behaviour in foster and adoptive families. It then explains, from an attachment perspective, the dimensions of parenting that are associated with helping children to feel more secure and to fulfil their potential in the family, with peers, at school and in the community. Finally, it tackles the key role which keeping attachment in mind can play in a range of areas of family placement practice, including contact.
Vivid case examples are used to make connections with the reality, both the challenges and the rewards, of daily life in foster and adoptive families.
This book is an indispensable resource for practitioners, foster carers, adoptive parents and all those seeking to ensure that children in need of family care get the very best experience possible and that foster carers and adoptive parents get the support they need and deserve.
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The Sad Dragon: A Dragon Book About Grief and Loss. A Cute Children Story To Help Kids Understand The Loss Of A Loved One, and How To Get Through Difficult Time.: 28 (My Dragon…
Having a pet dragon is very fun!
He can sit, roll over, and play… He can candle a birthday cake, lit a campfire, or so many other fun things that will make you laugh…
But sometimes, not every story is a happy one…
What if your dragon is suffering from a loss of a loved one?
What if he’s sad, angry, and heartbroken because his loved one passed away, and he cries and cries and cries?
What should you do?
You teach him about Grief and Loss. You explain death to him, and help him get through this difficult time!
But how???
Get his book now and learn how!
Cute dragon book with beautiful illustrations, this is a must have for children, parents and teachers to open up conversations about loss, and to help kids who suffered from the loss of a loved one.
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My Dog Eats Plant Pots: Adoption breakdown and its impact on one absolutely normal family
The dream of a family, the inability to create one, after the IVF has failed, led to adoption for this perfectly normal pair. Their lives and that of their faithful canine companion were turned upside down and inside out, when they got astride the rollercoaster of the adoption process. Successfully leaping all the hurdles, being assessed as suitable adopters, they found two children they thought they could care for, and protect, and finally become Mummy and Daddy. The story of two little people, two big people and one slightly eccentric dog. But the fairy tale became a nightmare. When proud people who just didn’t do failure, had to admit defeat, when they finally brought themselves to ask for the help that was promised, and it was not there. How the system is broken, how the blame game begins and then never stops. How those who should be at the centre are rarely put there. A very personal and frank account of adoption failure, disruption, breakdown. It is sad, it is horrid, it hurts. It is happening now, more often than you think, and it needs to be talked about. An important read for potential or existing adopters, or anyone involved with families during or after the adoption process, this challenging account of what can go wrong raises questions over the process of adoption, and more importantly adoption support.Read more
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From Gypsy to Jersey: An Adoption Journey
From Gypsy to Jersey, chronicles how my parents came to adopt me from Romania and how, all these years later, I followed the trail to my birth mother and made the journey back to Romania to connect with my Roma (Gypsy) family and roots. It also explores the conditions and history of the country around the time of my birth and what I learned about the Roma culture.
I am telling my story in the hopes of inspiring other adoptees and giving them the courage to learn more about their past.
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We Are A Family!: Tell the Kid about Adoption and Make Them Feel Equally Loved (Books about ADOPTION for Kids) [Illustrated Edition]
💖 Embrace the Power of Love: A Heartwarming Tale for Every Child 💖
Every child is a precious gift, regardless of whether they arrive through the miracle of birth or the extraordinary journey of adoption. What truly matters is the boundless affection and love we bestow upon them, nurturing their hearts and souls. Yet, for adopted children and their parents, an additional challenge often arises—one that must be met with unwavering love and understanding.
Imagine a world where no child, adopted or not, ever feels rejected or unloved when they discover the truth about their adoption. It’s a world where every parent strives to protect their child’s heart from the pain of doubt and uncertainty. Together, we can create this world, where love transcends blood ties, genetic origins, and all superficial boundaries.
At our core, we believe that it’s not adoption that needs explaining to children, but the powerful concept of love and how it weaves us into the tapestry of a family. Our mission is to illuminate this truth, to help every child, every family, and every heart embrace the unbreakable bonds that form through love alone.
🌟 Introducing our captivating book 🌟
Designed for children aged 3 and up, this remarkable tale gently guides young hearts through the profound journey of adoption. It is a story that speaks directly to their souls, leaving an indelible imprint of love, acceptance, and belonging. The narrative is impactful yet accessible, effortlessly capturing the essence of adoption without overwhelming young minds.
Step into a world of vibrant colors as you turn each page. Our book is a testament to visual delight, offering premium illustrations that engage young imaginations and evoke a sense of wonder. Let their creativity soar as they explore the world of colors within our enchanting tale.
We understand the importance of protecting your investment. That’s why we offer a free return period, ensuring your purchase is safeguarded. Rest assured, your satisfaction is our utmost priority.
When it comes to discussing adoption with children, there’s no one-size-fits-all approach. Every child is a unique individual, deserving of a personal journey that honors their distinct experiences. While we can’t provide a definitive guide, we offer insight and perspective, emphasizing that adoption is not about feeling rejected by biological parents, but about finding a forever family—a family filled with love, warmth, and unconditional support.
Let us embark on this transformative journey together. With “We Are A Family” we can rewrite the narrative of adoption, fostering an environment where every child feels cherished, understood, and unconditionally loved. Together, we have the power to shape a future where every child’s heart knows only the embrace of love.
Open your heart, nurture understanding, and join us on this extraordinary adventure. Embrace the power of love and create a world where all children can flourish, regardless of how they came into our lives. Order your copy of today and let love guide us all. 💖
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Contact in Adoption and Permanent Foster Care: Research, Theory and Practice
The idea of separated children maintaining some form of contact with birth relatives is common in fostering and adoption, but there is an urgent need for more research on this sensitive and difficult issue.This book gathers together the latest thoughts and research findings of many of the leading authorities on the subject of contact in adoption and permanent foster care. By looking at both infant and older child placements and the varying characteristics of permanent carers and birth relatives, the authors provide a comprehensive analysis of contact, when and when not to recommend it, and the demand to keep firmly in mind at all times the developmental needs of children.
This book will be invaluable for social work practitioners, policy makers and anyone in the academic community with an interest in contact.
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Carried in my Heart: An Adoption Tale: 1 (Love Makes a Family)
This adoption story puts God at the center of your child’s journey. They will smile as they imagine themselves carried in your heart and created by God’s hands. It uses magical illustrations and lyrical rhymes to assure your child they are a precious gift, a miracle, chosen, prayed for, treasured, and forever LOVED.
It creatively echoes a traditional birth story, “I didn’t have a baby bump like many moms-to-be. Instead, I wore a smile so big the whole world could see! The cravings did come but not for sour or sweet. I longed for the day you and I would finally meet!”
Let this book help your adopted little one understand how God miraculously knitted your beautiful family together.
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Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family
An NPR Best Book of 2022
An incredible, deeply reported story of identical twins Isabella and Hà, born in Viêt Nam and raised on opposite sides of the world, each knowing little about the other’s existence until they were reunited as teenagers, against all odds.
“Stirring and unforgettable—a breathtaking adoption saga like no other.” —Robert Kolker
It was 1998 in Nha Trang, Việt Nam, and Liên struggled to care for her newborn twin girls. Hà was taken in by Liên’s sister, and she grew up in a rural village with her aunt, going to school and playing outside with the neighbors. They had sporadic electricity and frequent monsoons. Hà’s twin sister, Loan, was adopted by a wealthy, white American family who renamed her Isabella. Isabella grew up in the suburbs of Chicago with a nonbiological sister, Olivia, also adopted from Việt Nam. Isabella and Olivia attended a predominantly white Catholic school, played soccer, and prepared for college.But when Isabella’s adoptive mother learned of her biological twin back in Việt Nam, all of their lives changed forever. Award-winning journalist Erika Hayasaki spent years and hundreds of hours interviewing each of the birth and adoptive family members. She brings the girls’ experiences to life on the page, told from their own perspectives, challenging conceptions about adoption and what it means to give a child a good life. Hayasaki contextualizes the sisters’ experiences with the fascinating and often sinister history of twin studies, intercountry and transracial adoption, and the nature-versus-nurture debate, as well as the latest scholarship and conversation surrounding adoption today, especially among adoptees.
For readers of All You Can Ever Know and American Baby, Somewhere Sisters is a richly textured, moving story of sisterhood and coming of age, told through the remarkable lives of young women who have redefined the meaning of family for themselves.
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Finding a Family for Tommy
Tommy needs a new family to give him lots and lots of love. Where will he find one? On a farm? In the pond? At the zoo? Open the flaps in this charming picture book to help him find out!Finding a Family for Tommy is primarily aimed at pre-school children, aged between 18 months and five years. The simple picture book with repetitive text and interactive pages gives carers and social workers an opportunity to discuss the meaning of family and belonging.
Repetition is the best form of learning for this age group and the gentle nature of the story should encourage children to ask for it often without being overwhelmed by it.
The book can be read in preparation for a move from foster care and during introductions to permanent carers or adopters. Children can struggle to articulate the complex emotions that arise during times of change, and very young children may not even be able to acknowledge their anxieties. This book can help to reassure them at every stage of the transition.
Carers can use it to discuss why the child needs a new family and what kind of families there are. The book is also designed to be used post-adoption to remind children that they were chosen for a family, and that their family was specially chosen for them.
This book will gradually introduce children to the concepts of adoption and fostering. However, it has been mainly devised as a tool to help carers raise emotional issues and to give children opportunities to ask questions and seek answers.
Guidelines included with the text give suggestions for points to discuss with children.
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Assessing Adoptive Parents, Foster Carers and Kinship Carers, Second Edition: Improving Analysis and Understanding of Parenting Capacity
Assessing prospective adoptive parents, foster carers, kinship carers and special guardians is an extremely complex task, and one that happens within a pressurized time frame.
Currently, assessments draw substantially on interviews, which can generate a lot of information but little analysis to enable professionals to establish a meaningful understanding of parenting capacity. Children with histories of trauma, loss and hurt need to join families in which parents exhibit the ability to be good at relationships, are able to manage their own stress and bond with the child in their care. Now fully updated and expanded to cover the assessment of kinship carers and special guardians, this book combines the latest findings from neuroscience with research on what makes good assessments and provides guidance and tools for making thorough, analytical and effective assessments.
With contributions from leading experts including Dan Hughes, Jonathan Baylin, Kim Golding and Julie Selwyn, it will provide you with the information you need to ensure the best possible chance of placement success.
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The DevOps Adoption Playbook: A Guide to Adopting DevOps in a Multi-Speed IT Enterprise
Achieve streamlined, rapid production with enterprise-level DevOpsAwarded DevOps 2017 Book of the Year, The DevOps Adoption Playbook provides practical, actionable, real-world guidance on implementing DevOps at enterprise scale. Author Sanjeev Sharma heads the DevOps practice for IBM; in this book, he provides unique guidance and insight on implementing DevOps at large organizations. Most DevOps literature is aimed at startups, but enterprises have unique needs, capabilities, limitations, and challenges; “DevOps for startups” doesn’t work at this scale, but the DevOps paradigm can revolutionize enterprise IT. Deliver high-value applications and systems with velocity and agility by adopting the necessary practices, automation tools, and organizational and cultural changes that lead to innovation through rapid experimentation. Speed is an advantage in the face of competition, but it must never come at the expense of quality; DevOps allows your organization to keep both by intersecting development, quality assurance, and operations.
Enterprise-level DevOps comes with its own set of challenges, but this book shows you just how easily they are overcome. With a slight shift in perspective, your organization can stay ahead of the competition while keeping costs, risks, and quality under control.
- Grasp the full extent of the DevOps impact on IT organizations
- Achieve high-value innovation and optimization with low cost and risk
- Exceed traditional business goals with higher product release efficiency
- Implement DevOps in large-scale enterprise IT environments
DevOps has been one of IT’s hottest trends for the past decade, and plenty of success stories testify to its effectiveness in organizations of any size, industry, or level of IT maturity, all around the world. The DevOps Adoption Playbook shows you how to get your organization on board so you can slip production into the fast lane and innovate your way to the top.
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Adopting a Child (9th Edition): A Guide for People Interested in Adoption
This is the book for anyone who has ever thought about adopting a child and wondered what it would involve. BAAF’s best-selling guide describes what adoption means and how to go about it. This edition has been thoroughly revised following the new Adoption Standards for England and contains a new section on step-parent adoption. This is a true beginner s guide, which is regularly revised and updated and includes a full agency list.Read more
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The Adoption Constellation: New Ways of Thinking About and Practicing Adoption
Clinical psychologist, Michael Grand, brings a compassionate understanding to all members of the adoption constellation. Drawing upon a lifetime of personal experience, research and clinical practice, he challenges conventional ways of thinking about adoption. The limitations of attachment theory as an explanation of adoption outcome are presented. In its place, he suggests a narrative understanding of adoption. Core themes of identity, grief, mattering and trust, permeate these narratives and shape the experience of members of the constellation. As a passionate advocate for openness, Grand explores the psychological costs of denying identifying information to adopted individuals and their birth kin. Parallels are also drawn to an impending crisis as offspring of assisted reproduction seek answers to their identity questions. The book concludes with a consideration of alternative permanency arrangements and a primer for opening closed adoption records. This book will change how we approach adoption in all of its manifestations. Adoptees, birth and adoptive kin, social workers, clergy, teachers, therapists, and legislators alike will find meaning within these pages.Read more
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The Secure Base Model: Promoting attachment and resilience in foster care and adoption
All children need to feel secure in their relationships with the adults who look after them. Where children have not experienced the kind of sensitive parenting that promotes security and resilience, they will find it difficult to trust and will struggle with managing their feelings and behaviour. What strategies can be used to provide sensitive caregiving that develops secure close relationships? How can children be helped to recover from earlier harmful experiences and feel competent to face future challenges successfully and fulfil their potential? What can help children develop resilience, self-esteem and the capacity to reflect on their feelings and have a sense of hope for the future? Secure Base is a model of caregiving in fostering and adoption that is based on theories of attachment and resilience while also drawing on child placement research. It provides a valuable framework and a strengths-based approach for making sense of children s needs and behaviours and sets out the dimensions of caregiving that can support children to thrive and to fulfil their potential. This practical guide to the Secure Base is designed to support social workers and other professionals involved in all aspects of fostering and adoption practice, from recruitment, assessment and preparation to matching and long-term support for placements through to adulthood. It will enable workers to effectively promote attachment and resilience in foster care.Read more
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A Family Torn Apart: Three sisters and a dark secret that threatens to separate them for ever
Angie, 6, and sister Polly, 4, are utterly distraught when they arrive to stay with foster carer Cathy Glass. Their older half-sister Ashleigh has accused their father of something horrible, and the two young sisters have been removed from home to keep them safe.
Cathy tries to comfort the girls, but they are inconsolable. They just want their mummy and daddy, whom they love dearly.
The girls appear to have been well looked after, but as they settle and start to talk of life at home, it becomes clear something is badly wrong. Then a chance remark sets in motion a chain of events that eventually changes everything.
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So You’ve Adopted a Sibling: A big sister’s survival guide for big brothers and sisters through adoption of a younger child or baby | Adoption shower … Kinship Care and…
From the author of award-winning foster care and adoption books Delly Duck, Room in the Nest and other adoption, fostering and kinship care children’s stories, comes an adorably-illustrated story to help elder siblings to adjust to a new sibling joining their family by adoption.So You’ve Adopted a Sibling features charming illustrations from Marlow’s daughter, a real 5 year old big sister. The engaging story is told in the voice of a young child who is enjoying being a big sister through adoption, and shares her top tips for other children who have a younger brother or sister who has joined their family through adoption. The story touches upon some of the emotions and changes to routine that children may experience in the early months as a big brother or sister.
Marlow is a biological and adoptive mother, and understands the challenges faced by parents who adopt after having a biological child. Most children have an established routine by the time they move to their adoptive family, and one of the primary goals of the adoptive family is to try to minimise the changes to this routine during transitions, to help the adopted child to settle in. Marlow found that this meant that there were quite a lot of changes to her biological daughter’s routines, so they worked together to write this story to help other parents to support their children through this.
This story is suitable for birth/biological children, as well as elder siblings who were adopted/placed in an adoptive family themselves prior to their younger sibling joining the family.
Praise for Delly Duck: Why A Little Chick Couldn’t Stay With His Birth Mother
“One of the best Adoption books of all time” – BookAuthority
“…a beautifully illustrated children’s story book, explaining big issues like adoption and fostering, in an age appropriate way.” – We Made A Wish adoption magazine
“…Delly Duck is a great choice for adopted and fostered children to explain adoption or support therapeutic life story work. The book can be used to help answer difficult and emotive questions…” – Maggie and Rose Book Adventurers
“A fantastic book for Parents, Foster Parents, Adoptive Parents, Legal Guardians, Kinship Carers, Social Workers, Play Therapists or Teachers… I can thoroughly recommend this book to anyone who is adopting, fostering, or is a child’s Legal Guardian… I love the way the book shows the love, and loss of the birth parent, and highlights the fact that sometimes a birth parent is simply not equipped with the necessary skills to keep their child safe consistently.
This beautiful, sensitively written story explains why a child may need to be removed from their birth parent, and explores in a gentle way the emotions felt by parent and child, and the roles other people play in protecting the child, and offering the child a loving, safe environment…” – Icing on the BakePlease click on the author’s name to see more titles by Holly Marlow.
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Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma
Adopted children who have suffered trauma and neglect have structural brain change, as well as specific developmental and emotional needs. They need particular care to build attachment and overcome trauma. This book provides professionals with the knowledge and advice they need to help adoptive families build positive relationships and help children heal. It explains how neglect, trauma and prenatal exposure to drugs or alcohol affect brain and emotional development, and explains how to recognise these effects and attachment issues in children. It also provides ways to help children settle into new families and home and school approaches that encourage children to flourish. The book also includes practical resources such as checklists, questionnaires, assessments and tools for professionals including social workers, child welfare workers and mental health workers. This book will be an invaluable resource for professionals working with adoptive families and will support them in nurturing positive family relationships and resilient, happy children. It is ideal as a child welfare text or reference book and will also be of interest to parents.Read more
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Our Baby from China: An Adoption Story
With simple text and lovely photographs, Nancy D’Antonio tells about the adoption of Ariela Xiangwei. To learn about the land their new daughter comes from, the author and her husband travel to China.Read more
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Our Granted Dream
A Personal adoption story
A long awaited dream
Granted by Allah’s mercy
Where two became three!Read more
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Somebody’s Daughter – a moving journey of discovery, recovery and adoption
Zara H. Phillips seemed to live a charmed life – backing singer to the stars with an incredible career here and across the Atlantic – but her smile masked a difficult childhood and the reality that she was adopted as a baby in the 60s. Her life soon spiralled and as a teenager she suffered from drug and alcohol addiction, as she struggled to find her birth parents and her true identity.Somebody’s Daughter is a fascinating and revealing account of how a beautiful woman’s life has been dominated by her adoption and how it has affected her and those around her. Hard-hitting and emotional, Zara’s memoir explores the needs of adopted children, with her characteristic warmth and wit, and the true journey it takes to find where you belong.
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A Child’s Journey Through Placement
Children who are cared for in an out of home placement are in need of support and stability. This classic text offers information and advice for professionals and carers on how to help these children, who will often have attachment difficulties.Vera I. Fahlberg, M.D. shares her experience and expertise, outlining the significance of attachment and separation, the developmental stages specific to adoptive children and providing guidance on minimising the trauma of moves. The book also features practical advice on case planning, managing behavior and direct work with children, and throughout are case studies and exercises which provide opportunities for further learning.
A readable, compassionate and practical text, A Child s Journey Through Placement provides the foundation, the resources, and the tools to help students, professionals, parents and others who care to support children on their journey through placement to adulthood.
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The Salesforce Business Analyst Handbook: Proven business analysis techniques and processes for a superior user experience and adoption
Become a proficient Salesforce business analyst with the help of expert recommendations, techniques, best practices, and practical advice
Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in the PDF format.
Key Features
- Learn the intricacies and nuances of every stage of a project’s implementation
- Discover real-world examples, tips, and tricks that you can apply to any Salesforce project
- Overcome the challenges inherent in user interaction and improve your customer experience
Book Description
Salesforce business analysis skills are in high demand, and there are scant resources to satisfy this demand. This practical guide for business analysts contains all the tools, techniques, and processes needed to create business value and improve user adoption.
The Salesforce Business Analyst Handbook begins with the most crucial element of any business analysis activity: identifying business requirements. You’ll learn how to use tacit business analysis and Salesforce system analysis skills to rank and stack all requirements as well as get buy-in from stakeholders. Once you understand the requirements, you’ll work on transforming them into working software via prototyping, mockups, and wireframing. But what good is a product if the customer cannot use it? To help you achieve that, this book will discuss various testing strategies and show you how to tailor testing scenarios that align with business requirements documents. Toward the end, you’ll find out how to create easy-to-use training material for your customers and focus on post-production support – one of the most critical phases. Your customers will stay with you if you support them when they need it!
By the end of this Salesforce book, you’ll be able to successfully navigate every phase of a project and confidently apply your new knowledge in your own Salesforce implementations.
What you will learn
- Create a roadmap to deliver a set of high-level requirements
- Prioritize requirements according to their business value
- Identify opportunities for improvement in process flows
- Communicate your solution design via conference room pilots
- Construct a requirements traceability matrix
- Conduct user acceptance tests and system integration tests
- Develop training artifacts so your customers can easily use your system
- Implement a post-production support model to retain your customers
Who this book is for
This book is for intermediate- to senior-level business analysts with a basic understanding of Salesforce CRM software or any CRM technology who want to learn proven business analysis techniques to set their business up for success.
Table of Contents
- Identifying Requirements
- Elicitation and Document Requirements
- Prioritizing Requirements
- Process Flows – “As-is” versus “To-be”
- Business Requirements Document
- Solution Design and Functional Document
- Demonstrate Functionality Using Prototypes
- Exploring Conference Room Pilots
- Technical and Quality Testing
- Requirements Traceability Matrix
- User Acceptance Testing
- Communication and Knowledge Management
- End User Training
- Post Go-Live Support / User Forums
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Adoption Book for Parents: Everything You Should Know about Adopting Your First Child
This book aims to educate parents about what they would have to go through as soon as they decide to push through with their plans for adopting a child. It aims to assist couples who are just starting out on their journey towards adopting their first child, a child that may not come from the flesh of their flesh, but comes from the place where love originates: their hearts.There are many options to choose from when looking for someone to adopt, each of which will be discussed in detail throughout the book.
There is so much that adoptive parents have to learn when adopting their first child, such as the adoption laws in the state where they are located, as well as the requirements that would have to be met in order for the adoption to be approved by a judge. Not only that, prospective parents would also have to learn about the do’s and don’ts of dealing with an adopted child, as well as understand the importance of a relationship formed between the adopted child and his birth mother.
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Lets Open a Cat Cafe: your comprehensive guide for a non-profit cat rescue with adoption center
A Cat Café – What a Wonderful Idea!
What exactly is it, and how do you open one?
- A Cat Café, Rescue and Adoption Center is a unique concept that combines the pleasure of sipping on coffee while also enjoying the company of adorable, and adoptable rescue cats in a cozy atmosphere while they are waiting for their furever homes.
- These cats have been rescued from an overcrowded shelter and now, in your Café they are living cage-free, safe, and free to roam and explore, and sleep soundly in cat trees, all while making new friends.
- I have outlined a step-by-step process for you with tips from a successful Cat Café, Rescue, and Adoption Center since 2017.
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The Kite’s Tale: A Story of Adoption
The Kite’s Tale follows the story of Archie, who longs for a brother or sister, and Posy, who needs a forever home. It is a simple tale of adoption with a thread of hope running throughout.Read more
£7.20£9.50The Kite’s Tale: A Story of Adoption
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