Ten Top Tips for Supporting Adopters - Softcover

This guide is intended for the wide range of social workers who become involved in supporting adoptive placements, and who may have differing levels of experience. This includes children s team social workers, adoption workers, Adoption Support Service Advisors, children s Guardians, and workers in other settings who need to understand something about the way adoption support services are delivered. The book describes the legal framework within which adoption support services are offered and indicates some of the underpinning principles on which a successful support service for adopters depends.

There are chapters on financial support for adoptive families, supporting members of the adoptive parents wider family, including any existing children of the family, contact, managing children s difficult behaviour, and identifying resources. The book also includes a bibliography to enable readers who want to follow up particular subjects to do so.