Suzanne McCall

Lloyd Hamilton

Understanding Looked After Children is an accessible guide to understanding the mental health needs of children in foster care and the role of foster carers and support networks in helping these children. The authors provide foster carers with an insight into the psychological issues experienced by children in the care system, and the impact of these issues on the foster family. Chapters cover cultural, social and legal structures associated with foster care and both the relevant child psychology theory and examples drawn from real-life situations. The authors give advice on how to address common psychological issues in collaboration with multi-agency professionals, as well as how to access to statutory services. They also explain the possible impact of assessments on foster children and the causes and management of foster carers' own feelings of frustration, anger or disappointment with social and mental health services or the placement itself. Chapters are complemented by case studies, and the book includes a helpful glossary to common terminology. Understanding Looked After Children is essential reading for registered foster carers and those considering fostering, as well as adoptive parents, and a useful reference for trainee and experienced practitioners in the care system, including social workers, psychologists, counsellors, teachers and others looking after vulnerable children.

Psychology for Foster Care

Understanding Looked After Children

Michael McCall

Michel, Dominique

An insightful, humorous, diary of what it was like to live 5 months on the slopes of one of the world's major active volcanoes: 11000 foot high Mount Etna. Meet some of the wonderful people that populate this glorious island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. Learn how to eat, communicate, and drive in the land of Homer's Cyclops. Experience some of the elaborate religious festivals, holidays, and concerts that occur regularly throughout the summer. Get up close and personal with an erupting volcano as Mount Etna pours lava down the sides of its eastern slopes. Most of all, laugh at the predicaments that regularly arise hen you rent a villa in a small Sicilian mountain community where NO ONE speaks a word of English!

Suzanne McCall

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