Improve your assessments of foster carers, kinship carers and adoptive parents to increase placement quality and stability
Chapter 1: Introduction, Joanne Alper, Adoptionplus. Chapter 2: Why are you frightened of being parented? Understanding developmental trauma, Kim S. Golding, Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust. Chapter 3: The home study and assessment of applicants: research evidence, Julie Selwyn, University of Bristol. Chapter 4: Adoptionplus: a new agency, a new approach, Joanne Alper, Adoptionplus. Chapter 5: Parenting well and staying well: understanding the qualities needed for parenting children with developmental trauma, Kim S. Golding and Ben Gurney-Smith, Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust and Adoptionplus. Chapter 6: Understanding developmental trauma, parental attachments, caregiving and PACE, Dan Hughes, Quittie GlenCenter for Mental Health. Chapter 7: The parenting brain, John Baylin, Norman Broudy MD & Associates. Chapter 8: Assessing potential kinship placements, Joanne Alper and Ailsa Edwards, Adoptionplus and Children in Need Chapter 9: Reflective functioning and parenting, John Baylin, Norman Broudy MD & Associates. Chapter 10: Conclusion, David Howe, University of East Anglia.
Kim S. Golding CBE, BSc, MSc, D. Clin. Psy. AFBPsS is a clinical psychologist who works in Worcestershire, England where she was influential in the founding of the Integrated Service for Looked After Children - a multi-agency, holistic service providing support for foster, adoptive and residential parents, schools and the range of professionals supporting children growing up in care or in adoptive families. Kim was trained and mentored by Dan Hughes in the use of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP). She was formerly on the board of the Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy Institute supporting the use of DDP in Europe, USA and Canada. She accredits and trains professionals in the approach and has been invited to speak about this work internationally.
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