The realities of adoption – an extract from ‘No Matter What.’
In this extract from the inspirational adoption memoir, No Matter What, author Sally Donovan shares the reality of parenting children who have experienced abuse and…
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‘Why Can’t My Child Behave?’ author Dr Amber Elliott on how she came to write a parenting manual for adoptive and foster parents.
Dr. Amber Elliott, author of Why Can’t My Child Behave? talks about how she became motivated to start her own company to support looked-after…
Inside Kinship Care
David Pitcher, editor and contributor of the new JKP book Inside Kinship Care shares how he hopes this book will help and support families dealing…
What is “the Talk” and Why is it Important for Interracial Families?
What is “the Talk” and why is it important for interracial families? The authors of The Interracial Adoption Option explain, sharing their personal experiences as…
Lessons Learned: Being a Transracial Family by JKP author Beth Hall
When, as a transracial adoptive family, we move into a new community, or when our children move to a new school, we are faced with…
What is it like to be a Life Story Work Consultant? From JKP authors Katie Wrench and Lesley Naylor.
Katie Wrench and Lesley Naylor, authors of the new Life Story Work with Children Who are Fostered or Adopted, give their fascinating insight into a day in the life…
Excerpt from Having Your Baby Through Egg Donation 2nd edition by Ellen Sarasohn Glazer and Evelina Weidman Sterling
The below article has been excerpted from the forthcoming book, Having Your Baby Through Egg Donation 2nd edition by Ellen Sarasohn Glazer and Evelina Weidman…
Adoption and Fostering recommended books for Parents
If you’re an adoptive/foster parent or prospective parent, we’ve put together this booklet of new and bestselling titles you might find interesting. Feel free to…
Top Ten Tips for the First Year of Placement
By Deborah Gray, MSW, MPA, clinical social worker specializing in attachment, grief and trauma, and author of Attaching in Adoption and Nurturing Adoptions. Parents passionately…
‘Without a life story, a child is adrift, disconnected and vulnerable’ – Dr Bruce Perry on the value and power of the Life Story approach
By Dr Bruce Perry, adapted from the Foreword to the new book, Life Story Therapy with Traumatized Children, by Richard Rose. A fundamental and permeating strength…