Life Story Work With Children Who Are Fostered Or Adopted

Author : Katie Wrench
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 184905343X
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Story Work with Children who are Fostered Or Adopted written by Katie Wrench and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The number of traumatized children in foster care and adoptive families is on the rise every year. In times like these, social work practitioners rarely have sufficient time to plan out each of their sessions. This book makes it possible. Life Story Work with Children who are Fostered or Adopted: Creative Activites and Ideas is a brief and accessible resource guide to life story work. Focused on methods and activities that have been tried and tested by social workers and therapists, these are simple activities that require minimal resources that range from how to build the foundation to Life Story Work to boosting a child's self-esteem and identity. The chapters are categorized in a way that makes it easy for the practitioner to identify which method will be appropriate for the stage of the work they are undertaking. This book will be a vital resource for social workers, foster caregivers, students and any frontline practitioner involved in working with traumatized children.

Author : Joy Rees
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 178450436X
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Story Books for Adopted and Fostered Children, Second Edition written by Joy Rees and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through words, pictures, photographs, certificates and other 'little treasures', a Life Story Book provides a detailed account of the child's early history and a chronology of their life. Fully updated, this clear and concise book shows a unique family-friendly way to compile a Life Story Book which promotes a sense of permanency for the child, and encourages attachments within new families. Joy Rees' influential model works chronologically backwards rather than forwards, aiming to reinforce the child's sense of belonging and security before addressing the child's past and early trauma. The book contains simple explanations of complex concepts, practical examples, helpful suggestions and includes some simple checklists. This new edition has been expanded to include fostered children and those living in kinship care or with a special guardian. Perfect for social workers, adoption agencies, adoptive parents, foster carers and kinship carers, Life Story Books for Adopted and Fostered Children is a refreshing, innovative and common-sense guide.

Author : Joy Rees
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1784505048
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Work with Children Who are Fostered or Adopted written by Joy Rees and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book from life work expert Joy Rees explains the value of effective and meaningful life work with children who are fostered and adopted, and how best to carry this out. This book will help social work professionals, foster carers and adopters to understand the many aspects of life work and to consider the important contributions they can all make to this task. Life work is about helping children to know and to understand their personal stories and the life experiences that have shaped them. Enabling children to reach their potential and achieve the best possible outcome is the common goal, and this is best achieved by using the collaborative approach to life work advocated in this book

Author : Joy Rees
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0857001906
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Story Books for Adopted Children written by Joy Rees and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2009-02-15 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through words, pictures, photographs, certificates and other 'little treasures', a Life Story Book provides a detailed account of the child's early history and a chronology of their life. This clear and concise book shows a new family-friendly way to compile a Life Story Book that promotes a sense of permanency for the child, and encourages attachments within the adoptive family. Joy Rees' improved model works chronologically backwards rather than forwards, aiming to reinforce the child's sense of belonging and security within the adoptive family before addressing the child's past and early trauma. The book contains simple explanations of complex concepts, practical examples and helpful suggestions. Perfect for busy social workers in local authority children and adoption teams, approved adoption agencies and adoptive parents, Life Story Books for Adopted Children is a refreshing, innovative and common-sense guide.

Author : Katie Wrench
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0857006746
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Story Work with Children Who are Fostered or Adopted written by Katie Wrench and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life story work is one of the key therapeutic approaches to working with adopted or fostered children. While it sounds simple, there is much more to this work than producing photo albums or memory boxes for children. This accessible book is full of tried and tested activities and creative ideas for professionals, parents and carers who may have little time and few resources, but who need to carry out life story work that works for children. The authors describe the optimum conditions in which to carry out life story work and feature activities to accompany each of the necessary stages: creating a sense of safety, emotional literacy, building resilience, exploring identity, sharing information and looking to the future. This book will be a vital tool for social workers, foster carers, adopters, students and any frontline practitioners involved in working with traumatised children.

Author : Tony Ryan
Publisher : British Association for Adoption & Fostering(BAAF)
ISBN 13 : 9781905664023
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Story Work written by Tony Ryan and published by British Association for Adoption & Fostering(BAAF). This book was released on 2007 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative guide will help anyone who wants to use life story work as a way of helping children. This comprehensively revised and attractively illustrated edition has been updated in light of all recent legislation. It incorporates substantial new material from other contributors and presents an assortment of useful techniques and exercises for adults working with children in different settings. The authors also explain how new interactive media can be particularly helpful for many children, and describes successful interactive resources.

Author : Katie Wrench
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1839976179
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skills and Knowledge for Life Story Work with Children and Adolescents written by Katie Wrench and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-06-21 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life story work allows care-experienced and adopted young people to understand their histories and come to terms with their feelings about the past. This accessible guide helps therapists and social care professionals to develop their skills to support children and families through their life story journey. It builds on the fundamental 6-step model for practice to incorporate elements from a variety of therapeutic approaches, from DDP to creative therapies. Theoretical explanations, case vignettes, and practical suggestions provide guidance on practice-based issues in life story work, such as working with parent/carer-child dyads, incorporating a birth family perspective, talking about traumatic stories, managing endings and constructing the life story book. Essential reading for anyone undertaking life story work, this guide enhances a time-tested model with up-to-date research and new ideas for overcoming the most common challenges practitioners face when delivering life story work.

Author : Shaila Shah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781903699898
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Story Work written by Shaila Shah and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joan E. Moore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000768252
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative and Dramatic Approaches to Children’s Life Story with Foster, Adoptive and Kinship Families written by Joan E. Moore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative and Dramatic Approaches to Children’s Life Story with Foster, Adoptive and Kinship Families outlines narrative and dramatic approaches to improve vulnerable family relationships. It provides a model which offers new ways for parents to practise communicating with their children and develop positive relationships. The book focuses on the Theatre of Attachment model - a highly innovative approach which draws from a strong theoretical base to demonstrate the importance of narrative and dramatic play for sharing the children’s life history in the family home with their adoptive, foster or kinship parents. An emphasis is on having fun ways to work through complex feelings and divided loyalties, so as to secure attachment. This practice model aims to raise children’s self-esteem and communication skills and to combat the profound effects of abuse, neglect on trauma on children’s development. This book will be of great interest for academics, post-graduate students, universities and Training bodies, service providers and practitioners involved in social work and creative therapies, child psychologists, child psychotherapists and public and private adoption and foster care agencies.

Author : Helen Ramaglia
Publisher : Inspiring Voices
ISBN 13 : 1462402941
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Foster to Fabulous written by Helen Ramaglia and published by Inspiring Voices. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a former foster child, I know how it feels to be alone, to feel lost, to feel hopeless, and to feel helpless. I also know you can make a difference in the life of a foster child. Ive been there. While my story is not unique, I want to share it in order to help the caring people of America walk in the shoes of a child who experiences physical, mental, and emotional abuse; is removed from everything she knows; is provided a roof over her head by the State and strangers; and then is thrust into adulthood totally unprepared but later succeeds. I want them to see, touch, and feel what the abused/foster child suffers and why they are who they are. I want them to see the major gaps in the childs life skills and social abilities and why they exist. We must walk in the childs shoes in order to understand them. Only then will we be able to truly fill the enormous amount of needs they have and feel confident in adopting, fostering, and working with foster children. We must fully understand the heart and life of a foster child before we can effectively foster, adopt, or work with this vulnerable population of extraordinary children. I invite you to walk with me, and learn how it truly feels to grow up as nobodys child. A little girl destined to failure, confined by abuse, and traumatized by foster care is inspired by faith to succeed.