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Assessing prospective adoptive and foster parents is an extremely complex task, and one that happens within a pressurised time frame. Currently, assessments draw substantially on interviews with prospective adopters and foster carers. Too often, they generate a lot of information but lack meaningful analysis and 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, able to manage their own stress and bond with the child in their care. In this book, leading experts including Dan Hughes, Jonathan Baylin, Kim Golding and Julie Selwyn combine the latest findings from neuroscience with research on what makes good assessments. Together, they provide guidance and recommend tools for making thorough, analytical and effective assessments which will ensure the best possible chance of placement success. Assessing Adoptive and Foster Parents is an invaluable source of knowledge and practice guidance for social workers undertaking assessments of parenting capacity of children who have experienced neglect or trauma.
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction, Joanne Alper, Adoptionplus. Chapter 2: Why are you frightened of being parented? Understanding developmental trauma, Kim S. Golding, Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust. Chapter 3: The home study and assessment of applicants: research evidence, Julie Selwyn, University of Bristol. Chapter 4: Adoptionplus: a new agency, a new approach, Joanne Alper, Adoptionplus. Chapter 5: Parenting well and staying well: understanding the qualities needed for parenting children with developmental trauma, Kim S. Golding and Ben Gurney-Smith, Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust and Adoptionplus. Chapter 6: Understanding developmental trauma, parental attachments, caregiving and PACE, Dan Hughes, Quittie GlenCenter for Mental Health. Chapter 7: The parenting brain, John Baylin, Norman Broudy MD & Associates. Chapter 8: Reflective functioning and parenting, John Baylin, Norman Broudy MD & Associates. Chapter 9: Conclusion, David Howe, University of East Anglia.
