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Developing adoption support and therapy : new approaches for practice / Angie Hart and Barry Luckock.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hart, Angie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adopted children--Great Britain.
- Adopted children.
- Adopted children--United States.
- Adoption--Great Britain.
- Adoption.
- Adoption--United States.
- Adoptive parents--Services for--Great Britain.
- Adoptive parents.
- Adoptive parents--Services for--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (226 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, PA : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Developing Adoption Support and Therapy: New Approaches for Practice; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Adoption Today; 2 Understanding Adoptive Childhood and Family Life; 3 Adoption Support: The Legal and Organisational Framework for Practice; 4 'Someone There for Us': The Adoption Support Services Adviser in Context; 5 Facilitating 'Good Enough' Adoptive Parenting Through Formal Therapeutic Interventions; 6 'Holding Multiple Families in Mind': Enabling Open Communication in Adoptive Kinship; 7 Developing Communities of Adoptive Practice; References; Subject Index; Author Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-26685-6
- 9786610266852
- 1-4237-0992-6
- 1-84642-021-0
- OCLC:
- 228115541
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