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A Practical Guide to Fostering Law: Fostering Regulations, Child Care Law and the Youth Justice System
ISBN: 9781849050920 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Practical Guide to Fostering Law is an accessible, jargon-free guide to the key elements of the law that concern foster carers and the professionals who work with them. It aims to help foster carers understand where they fit into the complex web of regulations surrounding childcare and to demystify the jargon and terminology which is often used but rarely explained. The book covers the laws in England and Wales governing fostering agencies and foster carers themselves, including foster carers' rights, and the formalities of placement procedures. It also provides explanations of care...
A Practical Guide to Fostering Law is an accessible, jargon-free guide to the key elements of the law that concern foster carers and the professionals...
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118,52 |
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No Matter What: An Adoptive Family's Story of Hope, Love and Healing
ISBN: 9781849054317 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'I love you, no matter what.' An uplifting true story of an ordinary couple who build an extraordinary family, No Matter What describes how Sally and Rob Donovan embark upon a journey to adopt following a diagnosis of infertility. Sally Donovan brings to life with characteristic wit and honesty the difficulties of living with infertility, their decision to adopt and the bewildering process involved. Finally matched with young siblings Jaymey and Harlee, Sally and Rob's joy turns to shock as they discover disturbing details of their children's past and realise that they must do everything it...
'I love you, no matter what.' An uplifting true story of an ordinary couple who build an extraordinary family, No Matter What describes how Sally and ...
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Connecting with Kids Through Stories: Using Narratives to Facilitate Attachment in Adopted Children Second Edition
ISBN: 9781849058698 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Adopted children whose early development has been altered by abuse or neglect may form negative beliefs about themselves and parents, and may resist connecting with others. This book outlines how therapeutic stories can help children to heal and develop healthy attachments. With a thorough theoretical grounding, the book demonstrates how to create therapeutic stories that improve relationships, heal past trauma, and change problem behaviour. The story of a fictional family that develops its own narratives to help their adopted child heal illustrates the techniques. This second edition...
Adopted children whose early development has been altered by abuse or neglect may form negative beliefs about themselves and parents, and may resist c...
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108,21 |
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The Interracial Adoption Option: Creating a Family Across Race
ISBN: 9781849059305 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The perfect starting point for parents of transracially adopted children and those who are considering adopting transracially. The Interracial Adoption Option is a personal guide to interracial adoption which draws on the lives and experiences of the authors, a white US couple, who adopt two African-American children. Starting from their decision to adopt their first child interracially, it describes the situations and decisions that followed as a result of their child's racial background. The authors' combine their personal experiences with practical advice. They address common issues like...
The perfect starting point for parents of transracially adopted children and those who are considering adopting transracially. The Interracial Adoptio...
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87,59 |
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My Turn to Talk : A Guide to Help Children and Young People in Care Aged 12 or Older Have a Say About How They are Looked After
ISBN: 9781904787396 / Angielski / Miękka / 20 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written specifically for young people, and with colour illustrations throughout, this guide offers practical tips for children on how they can have a say in how they are cared for, including their review meetings. The guide was written following extensive consultation with children and young people in care. The guide includes a description of the care planning process, advice on how children and young people can have more say in decisions about all aspects of their care, what to do if they are unhappy, and where to go for extra help. Practitioners who will find this resource useful include...
Written specifically for young people, and with colour illustrations throughout, this guide offers practical tips for children on how they can have a ...
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51,29 |
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Dennis Duckling
ISBN: 9781905664771 / Angielski / Miękka / 21 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A simple open story featuring Dennis Duckling and his sister who are unable to live with their mum and dad on the pond anymore, so they move to live with another family of ducks by the river.
A simple open story featuring Dennis Duckling and his sister who are unable to live with their mum and dad on the pond anymore, so they move to live w...
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60,14 |
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A Secret Star
ISBN: 9781934606520 / Angielski / Miękka / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A haunting memoir of a tiny girl's journey through a life of hell. After suffering the death of both of her biological parents due to their drug addiction, Natalie Winters was placed in a Texas Foster home where she was emotionally, physically, and sexually abused. In A Secret Star, Natalie shares the horror stories and dark moments of despair that filled her world. Even as the events are detailed within these pages, no one could ever understand the depth of abandonment, abuse, and absence of love she felt. Natalie struggled during these horrible times wondering what light to seek and what...
A haunting memoir of a tiny girl's journey through a life of hell. After suffering the death of both of her biological parents due to their drug addic...
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86,10 |
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A Mother's Heart Moved the Hand of God
ISBN: 9781614486787 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The power of love can save a life"
One rainy night on the Zambian savannah, a mother s heart moves the hand of God. From a land laid waste by disease and drought emerges this incredible story of courage, suffering, and the ultimate triumph of the power of God s love. This is the true story of an infant born in the bush of southern Zambia at the height of the worst drought in years. That tiny life was awaiting the traditional burial lying on the chest of her mother, who died during delivery. For months the relentless claw of death would try to snatch another victim, but God had a purpose... "The power of love can save a life"
One rainy night on the Zambian savannah, a mother s heart moves the hand of God. From a land laid waste by dis... |
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Clinical and Educational Interventions with Fathers
ISBN: 9780789006455 / Angielski / Twarda / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Call on men's hidden strengths to help them become responsible fathers in even the most challenging circumstances Clinical and Educational Interventions with Fathers gives you fresh approaches for effective interventions with fathers. Whether by calling on their faith to help them deal with the complexities of fatherhood or offering high-tech interventions on the Internet, these techniques help men find their strengths, maintain their masculinity, and learn to guide, nurture, and discipline with love and responsibility. Instead of thinking of fathers as deficient, the book emphasizes finding...
Call on men's hidden strengths to help them become responsible fathers in even the most challenging circumstances Clinical and Educational Interventio...
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538,76 |
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The Simple Guide to Child Trauma: What It Is and How to Help
ISBN: 9781785921360 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. - What is trauma? - How does it affect children? - How can adults help? Providing straightforward answers to these complex questions, The Simple Guide to Child Trauma is the perfect starting point for any adult caring for or working with a child who has experienced trauma. It will help them to understand more about a child's emotional and behavioural responses following trauma and provides welcome strategies to aid recovery. Reassuring advice will also rejuvenate adults' abilities to face the challenges of supporting children.
- What is trauma? - How does it affect children? - How can adults help? Providing straightforward answers to these complex questions, The Simple Gu...
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66,97 |
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Mother of Ten
ISBN: 9781492858140 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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44,71 |
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Child Custody: Legal Decisions and Family Outcomes
ISBN: 9781138012264 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For too long, divorce and remarriage literature has focused only on the outcome in the personal lives of the divorcees during and after divorce. But now, in Child Custody: Legal Decisions and Family Outcomes, you ll see that divorce is a chain reaction that begins in the courtrooms and branches out into the families of the world, changing the lives of children, parents, and grandparents alike.Child Custody is an incisive, up-to-date collection of studies that addresses both child custody decisions and the varied and often surprising outcomes for those children and their families....
For too long, divorce and remarriage literature has focused only on the outcome in the personal lives of the divorcees during and after divorce. But n...
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220,35 |
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Searching for the Castle: Backtrail of an Adoption
ISBN: 9781491713068 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Like cowboys turning in the saddle to look at where they came from, Searching for the Castle documents the backtrail of author Barbara Leigh Ohrstrom's adoption. It begins with her urgency as an eighteen-year-old woman initiating her search for her birth parents. Her recollection includes court petitions, letters, Division of Social Service documents, and other original documents usually buried behind the lock and key of the law. In this memoir, she narrates the unearthing of her history and that of her family. Some of her discoveries are filled with pain, while others are... Like cowboys turning in the saddle to look at where they came from, Searching for the Castle documents the backtrail of author Barbara Leigh... |
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61,47 |
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Searching for the Castle: Backtrail of an Adoption
ISBN: 9781491713075 / Angielski / Twarda / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Like cowboys turning in the saddle to look at where they came from, Searching for the Castle documents the backtrail of author Barbara Leigh Ohrstrom's adoption. It begins with her urgency as an eighteen-year-old woman initiating her search for her birth parents. Her recollection includes court petitions, letters, Division of Social Service documents, and other original documents usually buried behind the lock and key of the law. In this memoir, she narrates the unearthing of her history and that of her family. Some of her discoveries are filled with pain, while others are... Like cowboys turning in the saddle to look at where they came from, Searching for the Castle documents the backtrail of author Barbara Leigh... |
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Attaching Through Love, Hugs and Play: Simple Strategies to Help Build Connections with Your Child
ISBN: 9781849059398 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Capturing the warmth and fun of forming close relationships with children, this book offers simple advice to parents of children who find it difficult to attach and bond - whether following adoption, divorce or other difficult experiences. Attachment therapist Deborah D. Gray describes how to use the latest thinking on attachment in your daily parenting. She reveals sensory techniques which have proven to help children bond - straightforward activities like keeping close eye contact or stroking a child's feet or cheeks - and explains why routines like mealtimes and play time are so important...
Capturing the warmth and fun of forming close relationships with children, this book offers simple advice to parents of children who find it difficult...
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From Half to Whole: A Journey to Overcome the Battle Scars of Adoption and Living to Tell About It
ISBN: 9781480076310 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The number of older-child adoptions is on the rise. In fact, of the nearly 8,700 international adoptions that took place last year, more than half were between the ages of 1 and 4, and nearly a quarter were between the ages of 5 and 12. This new image of adoption-due in large part to the 2008 ratification of the Hague Adoption Convention-presents new challenges for families looking to expand or start a family. From Half to Whole is a raw and honest look at the trials and tribulations of one family's struggle to adopt and raise two young boys from Poland who came to America not only with a few...
The number of older-child adoptions is on the rise. In fact, of the nearly 8,700 international adoptions that took place last year, more than half wer...
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Family Matters: Carers and Children Tell Their Stories
ISBN: 9781491892800 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Foster caring is as challenging as it is rewarding. There is a school of thought that if one is interested in fostering, then one can become a foster carer. Considering the many problems that surface on a day-to-day basis in a given fostering environment, it takes much more that interest in fostering to make fostering work. 'Family Matters' frankly discusses what fostering entails and clearly demonstrates how Mohammed and Sharon Lahrichi have had a reasonable degree of success in their fostering work. It documents cases that tell how foster children as well as biological children interpret...
Foster caring is as challenging as it is rewarding. There is a school of thought that if one is interested in fostering, then one can become a foster ...
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Second Degree Adoption: Lost and Found
ISBN: 9781495993213 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A razor edge memoir about a messy family in small town New England - full of complex relationships caused by adoptions, marriages, births, deaths and money. You were born into the family, married in, divorced out, adopted in or out, and died or walked away from them. The only way to survive the journey was through prayer. A search for self with no guaranteed answers. "There but for the grace of God - go I."
A razor edge memoir about a messy family in small town New England - full of complex relationships caused by adoptions, marriages, births, deaths and ...
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35,41 |
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Forever Mom: What to Expect When You're Adopting
ISBN: 9781400206230 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What to do when you've been called to adopt and practical advice to make it work Mary Ostyn married her sweetheart at nineteen, and the pair had four kids by their eighth anniversary. When their youngest was three, God opened their eyes to the needs of orphans all over the world--and answered Mary's longing for another baby. Over the next nine years the couple adopted two boys from Korea and four girls from Ethiopia. Ostyn, a beloved adoption writer and blogger, shares--alongside stories from other adoptive families--the practical tools and resources she uses to thrive... What to do when you've been called to adopt and practical advice to make it work Mary Ostyn married her sweetheart at nineteen, and th... |
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The Child Bride
ISBN: 9780007590001 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cathy Glass, international bestselling author, tells the shocking story of Zeena, a young Asian girl desperate to escape from her family. When 14 -year-old Zeena begs to be taken into care with a non-Asian family, she is clearly petrified. But of what? Placed in the home of experienced foster carer Cathy and her family, Zeena gradually settles into her new life, but misses her little brothers and sisters terribly. Prevented from having any contact with them by her family who insist she has brought shame and dishonour on the whole community, Zeena tries to see them at school.... Cathy Glass, international bestselling author, tells the shocking story of Zeena, a young Asian girl desperate to escape from her family. Whe... |
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