Rebuilding Family Relations for Children and Youth Separated from Family

Sarah Hean is Professor of Social Work at the University of Stavanger, Norway.Vanessa Heaslip is Professor of Nursing and Healthcare Equity and lead Professor for Nursing and Midwifery at Salford University, UK.Jonathan Parker is Professor of Society & Social Welfare at Bournemouth University, UK.Pravin Tembjerg is Professor of Psychology at the University of Stavanger, Norway.

• Chapter 1 Situational learning from an examination of reunification in varied contexts.- Chapter 2   Family relations and children’s/young people’s mental health: the impact of separation from the birth family.- Chapter 3 Multi-theoretical perspectives on family relations building and practices.- Chapter 4 Where is the love? Acknowledging birth family ties after removal.- Chapter 5: Ambivalent relationships. Adolescent’s experiences with Child welfare services in kinship foster care placements.- Chapter 6 Transition from residential to foster care, leading to the reunification of separated children with their birth families – the Albanian case.- Chapter 7 Complexity of co-production in the process of reunification in child protection services.- Chapter 8: Dialogue Processes: An Applicable Method for Reunification after Care Orders?.- Chapter 9 Social innovation and interprofessional collaboration in child–family reunification services: the Family group conference.- Chapter 10: Agreeing to disagree: perspective taking between siblings in separated families.- Chapter 11 The troubling family reunification in a post-separation abuse context.- Chapter 12: Supporting reunification through improved parental recognition: Reunification of Children with Disabilities Living in Institutional Care in Denmark and Tanzania.- Chapter 13 Parenting Between here and there:  Children separated from families by migration and child welfare.- Chapter 14 Pain, obstacles and care: Unaccompanied minor and young refugees’ challenges related to family separation and reunification.- Chapter 15 Bridging Bonds: Nurturing Mother-Child Connections Through Incarceration and Beyond.- Chapter 16 Imagining the possible and the impossible in family reunification: An integrative framework to explore grief in the context of child removals.