Surviving and Thriving in Care and Beyond

Sara Barratt is a Consultant Systemic Psychotherapist and team leader of the Fostering, Adoption and Kinship Care Team at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust where she also teaches on the Masters Training and the Systemic Supervision course. In her independent practice she consults to systemic psychotherapists, local authority social work teams and works with individuals, couples and families in General Practice. Wendy Lobatto is a social worker and family therapist, and currently manages 'First Step' an innovative psychological health screening and assessment service for looked after children in the London Borough of Haringey, which is commissioned from the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust. She has worked in the child mental health /social care field for over twenty-five years.

Series Editors’ Foreword , Foreword , Introduction , Overview of the Social, Political, and Clinical Context for Alternative Family Care , Family placement: continuity and discontinuity over time , Working with professional systems , Approaches to working with foster carers and children , Under our skins: developmental perspectives on trauma, abuse, neglect, and resilience , Examples of Clinical Work with Children and Young People , The journey to becoming a family , Working with vulnerability and resilience for separated children seeking asylum: towards stories of hope , The best thing is the lunch! My friends! Being with other people in the same situation! Oh, and the slow walking! The Fostering, Adoption and Kinship Care Team Children’s Group , The strength to smile behind my mask , Helping children through working with their adoptive parents , The Voices of Adults who have been Adopted or Experienced the Care System Either as Children or as those who are Currently Parenting Children , Extracts from two poems , The lived experience of transracial adoption , Positioning and respectful professional interventions for working with the legacy of Irish institutional care , Never too late , Co-creating a coherent story with adults who have been fostered or adopted , “It turns your whole world upside down … but still it brings immense pleasure”: perspectives on kinship care