Assessing prospective adoptive parents, foster carers, kinship carers and special guardians is an extremely complex task, and one that happens within a pressurized time frame.
Currently, assessments draw substantially on interviews, which can generate a lot of information but little analysis to enable professionals to establish a meaningful understanding of parenting capacity. Children with histories of trauma, loss and hurt need to join families in which parents exhibit the ability to be good at relationships, are able to manage their own stress and bond with the child in their care. Now fully updated and expanded to cover the assessment of kinship carers and special guardians, this book combines the latest findings from neuroscience with research on what makes good assessments and provides guidance and tools for making thorough, analytical and effective assessments.
With contributions from leading experts including Dan Hughes, Jonathan Baylin, Kim Golding and Julie Selwyn, it will provide you with the information you need to ensure the best possible chance of placement success.
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A visit some years ago to Adoptionplus and discussions with Joanne Alper helped open my layman's eyes to the challenge of adopting older children, children much more likely to have experienced considerable neglect. This book examines the way we assess adopters to ensure we recruit those who, however naive they might have been when first considering adoption, have the necessary qualities to succeed in raising a child damaged by the neglect of those from whom love and stability was expected. We know that those qualities - according to Rushton - include warmth, consistency, flexibility, tenacity and a sense of humour. The challenge is how to identify those characteristics and move away from a parental assessment process which has sometimes been both extremely time consuming and yet superficial and sometimes arbitrary.
But this book is also a reminder that adopters, however rich they are in the qualities which are needed, must have support. The pioneering Adoptionplus model which guarantees access to therapeutic support until the adopted child is eighteen must become the dominant adoption model in England. In the past too many courageous adopters of traumatised children have struggled, often been left isolated, and sometimes been themselves criticised for their failure as parents when, in truth, the challenges facing them would have overwhelmed most of us.
I warmly recommend this collection of illuminating essays.
(Sir Martin Narey, Chair of the Adoption Leadership Board and government advisor on adoption)Assessing Adoptive and Foster Parents sheds light on some of the dilemmas social workers face in assessing suitability of carers/adopters and helps deepen their understanding of the process of assessment and analysis by focussing on some of the key skills needed.
It delves into the two-way relationship between assessors and foster carers/prospective adopters, the power dynamics and how reflective functioning can be improved with practice. It also provides the assessing social worker with examples of the kinds of questions to ask in order to assess suitability and parenting potential of applicants and how the answers can then be analysed.
This book is one that must be read by anyone undertaking adoption and fostering assessments as it offers valuable knowledge, guidance and direction on how to understand and achieve analysis within assessments. A highly recommended book!
(Ruby Shah, Adoption Team Coordinator, Family Placement Services, Staffordshire County Council and Lee Pardy-Mclaughlin, Principal Child and Family Social Worker, Staffordshire County Council)"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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