| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 262 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Foreword; Introduction; Children and young people in care; Introduction; Adoption's rich tapestry unfolded: a family life in the 21st century; Troubled children and how to place them; Recruiting parents for hard-to-place children; It can only get better, and it did!; Good practice in adoption; Kinship care: a child in the family; Attachment theory and children's rights; 'I'll take her in'; The experience of birth parents; Introduction; Audrey and Aline's story; Lost and found: an adopted person's story. |
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Letter to a social worker: reflections on motheringAdoption and family support: two means in pursuit of the same end; Life after adoption; Introduction; Adoption: perspectives from family members; A truer image; Avoiding disruption: concurrent planning; How post-adoption support can make adoption a success; Talking and telling; Keeping in touch: a different way of looking at post-adoption contact issues; With love; The politics of adoption; Introduction; The fiction. |
| Summary |
Illustrating political and professional issues through stories and contributions from specialist practitioners, this book offers a fully rounded picture of adoption and explores some of the myths surrounding it. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Adoption -- Great Britain.
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Adoption. |
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Great Britain. |
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Adoptees -- Great Britain.
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Adoptees. |
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Adoptive parents -- Great Britain.
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Adoptive parents. |
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Birthparents -- Great Britain.
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Birthparents. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Adoptive parents. |
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Birth parents. |
| Added Author |
Douglas, Anthony, 1949-
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Philpot, Terry.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Adoption. London ; New York : Routledge, 2003 0415256844 0415256852 (DLC) 2002068178 (OCoLC)50204205 |
| ISBN |
0203167430 (electronic book) |
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9780203167434 (electronic book) |
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0415256852 (Paper) |
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9780415256858 (Paper) |
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0415256844 (Cloth) |
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9780415256841 (Cloth) |
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