Developing Adoption Support and Therapy: New Approaches for Practice
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Overview
Adoption is currently taking centre stage in family policy in the UK and USA, with new legislation that places emphasis on providing and maintaining permanent family homes for children separated from their families of origin. 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. Using there fictional families, they illustrate issues such as the adoption of older children, single, lesbian and gay adoptive parenting and the importance of openness in adoptive relationships. The authors bring sociological and anthropological perspectives to bear on current developmental psychology models of trauma and attachment and examine the effectiveness of various therapeutic interventions. Developing Adoption Support and Therapy will make current research and legislation on adoption support accessible to therapists, parents, social work practitioners and managers alike.Synopsis
Authors Hart (health, University of Brighton) and Luckock (social work, University of Sussex) explain the challenges of adoption support and therapy and their connection to a general ambivalence concerning adoption in English law, policy, and adoptive family practice. Utilizing case studies to explore issues in adoptive life, the text tackles questions concerning the Adoption and Children Act of 2002, its subtleties, and the place of the Adoption Support Services Advisor (ASSA). As well, the book delves into issues concerning the effectiveness of alternate methods of therapeutic intervention, the development of an "autobiographical self," and formal therapeutic versus inclusive models of service. It is in this aspect that an American student, parent, or professional may find the work useful. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR