1st Edition

Fostering Good Relationships Partnership Work in Therapy with Looked After and Adopted Children

190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the importance of effective multi-agency and multi-disciplinary partnership work for the mental health of children and young people in care and adoption. It takes an overall systemic perspective, but the co-authors contribute different theoretical approaches. It focuses on practice, showing how practitioners can draw on their varied theoretical approaches to enhance the way they... Read more
Series Editor’s Preface , Foreword , Introduction: Why partnerships? , Perspectives on the world of the looked after and adopted child , The views of adoptive parents and a foster parent on partnership working , Partnership with birth families , Therapeutic multi-disciplinary collaboration , Helping children with challenge and change: partnership working in transitions and education , Working together with the stories of children’s troubled lives , Finding a future beyond the crisis: looked after children in secure care , Working in partnership with adolescents in care who have experienced early trauma , Postscript

Biography

Miriam Richardson, Fiona Peacock, Geoff Brown, Tracey Fuller, Tanya Smart, Jo Williams