Essential Guide to Kinship Care

Trauma-Informed, Practical Help for You and Your Family

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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You might just have been told that someone needs you to care for a child or have been caring for a child for quite some time. Maybe you know the child, perhaps you are their grandparent? Or maybe the child is connected to someone in your family, but you hardly know them.You may have a lot of conflicting feelings. Maybe you are relieved that the child is with you, or perhaps you feel resentment at the interference of others? It might all be rather overwhelming, even if you have been a kinship carer for quite some time. Whatever the situation, when Kinship Care is sought, it can often come out of the blue. Sarah Naish and Enza Smith provides the answers to all of your burning questions. Dip-in dip-out sections help you with the immediate hurdles you might face, such as bereavement, issues with drugs or alcohol, child abuse, and more as well as challenges which may arise later in your kinship care journey. This book fills the information vacuum of support and ensures you always have an easy-to-access comforting friend within its pages.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-02-21
Mått136 x 212 x 14 mm
Vikt164 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor160
FörlagJessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN9781805012818

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Sarah Naish is the author of the bestselling parenting guide The A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting. She is an adoptive parent, CEO of The Centre of Excellence in Child Trauma, founder of the National Association of Therapeutic Parents, and SAfER Fostering, director of Inspire Training Group and author of the hugely popular Therapeutic Parenting Books series.https://www.coect.co.uk/sarah-naish/ Enza Smith, MBE, has dedicated 25 years of her life to being a kinship carer. She has extensive experience as a special guardian as well as experience in child arrangement orders and the care system. In 2011, she founded Kinship Carers UK, a grassroots registered charity that provides vital support to kinship carers. https://www.kinshipcarersuk.com/

This book is an excellent resource for all those affected by kinship care. It is written in an accessible and informative format, making it suitable for kinship carers and practitioners alike. It helps individuals navigate their way through the complicated legal processes and emotional challenges that may occur within kinship care, always keeping the needs of the child central. The book includes a helpful focus on therapeutic parenting; helping carers to understand and respond to the emotions of the child and building a strong and supportive bond. The kinship carer's own wellbeing and self-care is also rightly prioritised. Kinship carers and multi- agency practitioners who read this book, will wonder how they ever coped before it was published!