Six therapeutic storybooks to help children on their journey through fostering or adoption
This series of six picture books guides children through a range of issues relating to fostering and adoption by focusing on the experiences of a five-year-old girl called Kirsty and her magic doll Billy. Billy talks to Kirsty, explains what is happening to her and explores Kirsty's feelings during her journey from an abusive home to a loving ......
Across Europe young people in public care are around five times less likely to attend tertiary education than those who have not been in care. This book provides a comprehensive account of why this shocking discrepancy exists and outlines ways to address the imbalance. Drawing extensively on new original research, the book examines the ......
Positive Strategies for Overcoming Emotional Challenges
Positive and practical, this guide is designed to offer a route to recovery from grief and loss after adoption or long-term foster care. Children growing up in adoptive families or foster care often have complicated feelings about the loss of their birth parents - feelings which become all the more complex as they gain independence and become ......
Learning from Foster Children and the Families Who Care For Them
Andy Pithouse and Alyson Rees use original research to identify key ingredients needed to help create successful foster placements and help prevent placement breakdown. Studying the lives and activities of 10 foster families who provide lasting and effective care, the authors explore the families' everyday worlds. They look at the negotiations, ......
The Adoption Club Therapeutic Workbook on Adoption and Its Many Different Forms
Regina M. Kupecky LSW has a Masters Degree from John Carroll University. She has worked in the field of adoption for over thirty five years. She currently works at Adoption & Attachment Therapy Partners LLC in Ohio and conducts training nationally and internationally on many adoption and attachment-related topics. Regina is the co-author with ......
The Adoption Club Therapeutic Workbook on Friendship
Friendship is so complicated! The children of The Adoption Club think they are friends - they go to the same school and belong to The Adoption Club.But what does it mean? What is the difference between a casual and a close friend? How should you respond to teasing? It's time for The Adoption Club to explore friendship.Written for counsellors and ......
The Adoption Club Therapeutic Workbook on Siblings
For children who are adopted families can get complicated, and that's very true when it comes to brothers and sisters, or 'siblings'.Today The Adoption Club are exploring the confusing world of siblings. Some children have half-siblings, adopted siblings, step-siblings. Michael has a birth sibling, his sister Angela, who he lives with, but many ......
The Adoption Club Therapeutic Workbook on Feelings and Behavior
Regina M. Kupecky LSW has a Masters Degree from John Carroll University. She has worked in the field of adoption for over thirty five years. She currently works at Adoption & Attachment Therapy Partners LLC in Ohio and conducts training nationally and internationally on many adoption and attachment-related topics. Regina is the co-author with Dr. ......
One Big Family's Uplifting Story of Fostering and Adoption
Many people say being a parent is the toughest job there is. John DeGarmo, foster and adoptive parent, tells us just how tough it can be, having parented over 40 children. At times he and his wife, Kelly, have cared for up to nine children at a time, many with severe trauma and learning difficulties. Love and Mayhem is an honest and open account ......
