Welcome to Fostering
A Guide to Becoming and Being a Foster Carer
Seiten
2017
Jessica Kingsley Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-78592-204-6 (ISBN)
Jessica Kingsley Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-78592-204-6 (ISBN)
If you're thinking about becoming a foster carer, or have recently become one, this book is the one companion you'll need to understand the experience of fostering. This book demystifies the process of fostering; it answers all the questions you've had about how to become a foster carer, what the challenges and highlights are, and how to thrive.
What should you expect when you're expecting to foster? This book is a guide to taking the first critical steps of your fostering journey, explaining what fostering is, how to become a foster carer and what it takes to thrive.
Combining invaluable advice from veteran foster carers, the expertise of the professionals who support them, and priceless experiences of foster children themselves, this book explains the fostering process step by step. It tackles all the questions that you've ever asked yourself about fostering: What is fostering really like? What are the challenges? What kind of difference could I make?
Comprehensive and accessible, this is the companion for first-time fosterers or those considering foster care.
What should you expect when you're expecting to foster? This book is a guide to taking the first critical steps of your fostering journey, explaining what fostering is, how to become a foster carer and what it takes to thrive.
Combining invaluable advice from veteran foster carers, the expertise of the professionals who support them, and priceless experiences of foster children themselves, this book explains the fostering process step by step. It tackles all the questions that you've ever asked yourself about fostering: What is fostering really like? What are the challenges? What kind of difference could I make?
Comprehensive and accessible, this is the companion for first-time fosterers or those considering foster care.
Andy Elvin is CEO of the UK's largest fostering and adoption charity, TACT. Martin Barrow is an experienced journalist, formerly News Editor of the Times, PR, Huffington Post, foster carer and foster care commentator/blogger.
Introduction. 1. So you want to be a foster carer?. 2. Becoming a foster carer. 3. How do children become fostered?. 4. What's it like to be a foster child?. 5. Your first placement. 6. Behaviour management. 7. Allegations, how to handle them and what to expect. 8. Managing contact. 9. Working with the professional network. 10. Special guardianship orders. 11. Well being. 12. Endings. 13. What difference does it make?. 14. Heroes of the state.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.06.2017 |
|---|---|
| Co-Autor | Bev Pickering, John Simmonds, Jon Fayle |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 171 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 220 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78592-204-1 / 1785922041 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78592-204-6 / 9781785922046 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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