The child's journey through care : placement stability, care planning, and achieving permanency /

The child's journey through care : placement stability, care planning, and achieving permanency /

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Imprint:Chichester, West Sussex, England ; Hoboken, NJ : J. Wiley & Sons, c2006.
Description:xviii, 284 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Subject:Child welfare -- Government policy -- Great Britain.
Child care -- Research -- Great Britain.
Children -- Services for -- Great Britain.
Child care -- Research.
Child welfare -- Government policy.
Children -- Services for.
Great Britain.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6118318
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Other authors / contributors:Iwaniec, Dorota.
ISBN:0470011378 (hbk.)
0470011386 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • About the Contributors
  • Preface
  • Editor's Acknowledgements
  • Part I. The Need for a Good Start in Life: Attachment, Bonding, and Children's Rights
  • 1. Introduction: An Overview of Children in Public Care
  • Introduction
  • Problems and Dilemmas with Fostering and Residential Care
  • Looked-after Children in the United Kingdom
  • Abuse of Children in Care
  • The Purpose and Organisation of the Book
  • References
  • 2. Ordinary Children in Extraordinary Circumstances
  • Introduction
  • Children in Need
  • Recent Child-development Thinking
  • The Ecological Perspective
  • Recognising the Uniqueness of Individual Children
  • The Well-ness Approach
  • Resilience and Strengths
  • An Optimistic View of Child Development
  • Children as Actors in their Own Development
  • Aspects of Children's Development of Special Relevance to Looked-after Children
  • Children's Attachments
  • What Is Attachment?
  • Children and Multiple Attachments
  • Continuities and Discontinuities of Working Models
  • The Impact of Loss on Children's Development
  • Counteracting the Impact of Loss and Separation with Contact and Connectedness
  • Attachments and Socio-genealogical Connectedness
  • Counteracting the Impact of Separation with Stability
  • A Permanency Planning Approach
  • What Can Help Promote Children's Development in Practice?
  • References
  • 3. The Importance of Developing Emotional Bonds between Parents and Children
  • Introduction
  • What Is Bonding?
  • Bonding and Attachment
  • What Influences the Bonding Process?
  • The Bonding Process and Care Careers
  • Facilitating the Bonding Process for Alternative Care-providers
  • Summary
  • References
  • 4. Children in Alternative Care: Are their Rights Being Met?
  • Introduction
  • Children's Rights
  • Articles Associated with Alternative Care
  • Processes Leading to Care Orders
  • Care Orders
  • Foster Care
  • Residential Care
  • Secure Accommodation
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
  • Part II. Pathways to Permanency
  • 5. Outcomes of Long-term Foster Care: Young People's Views
  • Introduction
  • Improving Outcomes for Looked-after Children
  • Outcomes of Long-term Foster Care
  • Children's Rights and Researching Children's Views
  • The Pathways and Outcomes Study
  • Interviews with the Young People: Key Messages
  • Implications for Policy and Practice
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 6. Kinship Care as a Route to Permanent Placement
  • Introduction
  • Children Cared For by the Kinship and Traditional Foster Parents
  • The Placement of Children in Kinship Foster Care
  • The Motivation of Kinship Carers
  • Contact between the Children and their Birth-families
  • Contact with Birth-fathers
  • Kinship Foster Carers and Contact
  • Relationship between Birth-mother and Fostering Household
  • Care Plans
  • Adoption
  • Residence Orders
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 7. Exploring Regional Trends in Pathways to Permanency
  • Introduction
  • Placement Trends in Northern Ireland: Policy and Practice
  • Placement Trends in Northern Ireland: Statistical Information
  • Research on Regional Placement Variation
  • Examining Regional Variations
  • Variations in Placement Patterns over Time
  • Discussion of Results
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Part III. Residential and Mixed Care
  • 8. Developments in Residential Care in Northern Ireland
  • Introduction
  • Setting the Context for Change - Residential Care in England and Wales
  • Setting the Context for Change - Residential Care in Northern Ireland
  • Discussion
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note
  • References
  • 9. The Mental-health Needs of Looked-after Children
  • Introduction
  • Looked-after Children and Mental Health
  • Understanding Looked-after Children's High Levels of Mental-health Needs
  • Are We Meeting the Mental-health Needs of Looked-after Children?
  • Models of Mental-health Service Delivery to Looked-after Children
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 10. Changing Lives or Just Changing Location? Planning for Adolescents in Substitute Care
  • Introduction
  • Background
  • The Planning Process for Children Placed in Residential or Foster Care
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 11. Making Use of Positive Psychology in Residential Child Care
  • Introduction
  • An Introduction to Positive Psychology
  • Goleman and 'Emotional Intelligence'
  • Therapeutic Aspects of 'Emotional Intelligence'
  • Csikszentmihalyi and 'Flow'
  • Therapeutic Aspects of 'Flow'
  • Conclusion: Positive Psychology at Work
  • References
  • Part IV. Court and Family Support Pathways to Substitute Care
  • 12. Pathways to Permanence: Accommodation, Compulsion, and Permanence under the Children (NI) Order (1995)
  • Introduction
  • The Study
  • Care Order Application or Accommodation?
  • Parents' 'Co-operation'
  • Implications for Permanence Planning
  • References
  • 13. Care Planning in Care Proceedings: A Case Study Perspective on Achieving Permanency
  • Introduction
  • Care Planning
  • Parallel Planning
  • Concurrent Planning
  • Permanency Planning and Attachment
  • Case Studies
  • Discussion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • 14. The Participation of Looked-after Children in Public Law Proceedings
  • Introduction
  • Who Are Looked-after Children?
  • Looked-after Children and Public Law Proceedings
  • Definitions of Participation
  • Reasons for the Increased Emphasis on Participation
  • Mechanisms and Provisions for the Participation of Looked-after Children in Public Law Proceedings
  • Effectiveness of Existing Mechanisms and Provisions Regarding the Participation of Looked-after Children in Public Law Cases
  • Room for Improvement
  • Ways Forward
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Part V. Messages from Research
  • 15. Messages from Research
  • Introduction
  • Pathways to Permanency
  • Kinship Care
  • Permanency through Adoption
  • Building Attachments and Bonding
  • Children's Rights and Participation of Children in Public Law Proceedings
  • Care Planning, Assessment, and Intervention
  • Legal and Voluntary Pathways to Substitute Care
  • Difficulties and Costs of Legal Proceedings
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index
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