Understanding and Working with Parents of Children in Long-Term Foster Care (eBook)
224 Seiten
Jessica Kingsley Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-85700-489-5 (ISBN)
For children growing up in foster care, the role of their birth parents is an important factor in the success of their long-term placements. Understanding the experiences of parents is therefore essential in order to develop effective social work practice with parents that can also ensure the best possible outcomes for children.Drawing on detailed and often moving interviews with parents, the book takes a chronological approach, starting with their accounts of family life before their children were taken into care, in particular the impact of drugs, alcohol and domestic violence. It goes on to explore their experiences of court and then how they seek to come to terms with their loss, sustain an identity as a parent and manage a relationship with their children through contact. Parents' views on what they find valuable and helpful in relationships with foster carers and social workers are also discussed. The book then draws on the views of social workers on the opportunities and challenges of supporting parents, while also remaining child-focussed. The authors set out a model of good practice, based on the lessons learnt from the experiences of these parents and social workers. This book will be essential reading for all child and family social workers, fostering social workers, independent reviewing officers, academics and foster carers.
Gillian Schofield is Professor of Child and Family Social Work and Co-Director of the Centre for Research on the Child and Family at the University of East Anglia, UK. She is an experienced social worker, has led a series of funded research projects on long-term foster care and is the author of a wide range of books and articles. Emma Ward is a Senior Research Associate in the Centre for Research on the Child and Family at the University of East Anglia. She has worked on a number of research projects on foster care.
1. Introduction: legal, policy and research context. 2. Parenting before the children went into care. 3. Parents' experience of their children going into care. 4. Parents' experience of their children growing up in foster care. 5. Contact between parents and their children. 6. Parents' relationships with foster carers. 7. Parents' relationships with social workers. 8. Am I still a parent? Managing a threatened identity. 9. Social workers' perspectives on their work with parents. 10. Conclusion: developing social work practice. References. Index.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 14.4.2011 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 140 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
Schlagworte | birth parents • Child Abuse • child and family social work • Child protection • Children in care • children’s social care • child residential care • direct work • Domestic Abuse • Domestic violence • early help • emotional abuse • foster carers • foster care system • fostering a child • Mental Health • Neglect • parental capacity • Physical Abuse • safeguarding children • Sexual Abuse • Social Work • Trauma • Vulnerable Children |
ISBN-10 | 0-85700-489-1 / 0857004891 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-85700-489-5 / 9780857004895 |
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