Facilitating Meaningful Contact in Adoption and Fostering

1. The Effects of Contact on Looked After and Adopted Children: Trauma, Neuroscience and Attachment.; 2. Developmental Issues as They Relate to Babies, Toddlers and Children in Temporary Foster Care: Considerations for Assessing and Supporting Contact Arrangements.; 3. The Adoption Quadrangle.; 4. Contact Issues for Children Moving from Foster Care into Adoptive Families.; 5. Facilitating Therapeutic Contact with Birth Relatives and Siblings for Adopted Children.; 6. Managing Contact when the Adoptive Parents have Separated or Divorced.; 7. Contact Issues for Children living in Kinship Care.; 8. Creative Approaches to Facilitating Safe Contact.; 9. Summary and Conclusions.

It is written in a concise and easy format that would be accessible to social workers, foster carers, birth parents and adopters... the book addresses how a good foster-care experience, followed up by meetings between foster carers and the adoptive family after placement, can provide a further stage of healing, helping the child to make sense of their history... It is relevant to all practitioners who make decisions and need to organise their thinking about contact between children and Young people, and members of their birth families.