Ten Top Tips for Making Introductions - Softcover

An adoptive placement, for both the adults and child involved, can trigger excitement and anticipation, but also, especially for children who have already experienced multiple moves, loss, fear and anxiety. How can social workers plan and manage introductions the culmination of all the work that must take place between linking a child with a family and confirming a match in order to lay solid foundations for a child becoming a permanent member of a family?

This book considers the roles of all involved, including the birth family and other children, as well as the purpose of introductions and will help workers to plan and manage good introductions.

This user-friendly guide contains expert advice for all workers involved with moving children on to other adoptive placements, or other forms of permanency. Both social workers new to this area of work, as well as established practitioners, will benefit from the practical advice on settling children into stable, enduring and permanent families.

The Ten Top Tips series considers some of the fundamental themes in child care practice in concise, practical guides ideal for busy practitioners.

Lindsey Dunbar became a social worker in 1984. Her professional roles have included residential work with children, child protection, inspection, fostering and adoption. She has a particular interest in how we successfully enable children to move into permanent placements.