Surviving and Thriving in Care and Beyond

Sara Barratt

• Series Editors’ Foreword , Foreword , Introduction , Overview of the Social, Political, and Clinical Context for Alternative Family Care , Family placement: continuity and discontinuity over time , Working with professional systems , Approaches to working with foster carers and children , Under our skins: developmental perspectives on trauma, abuse, neglect, and resilience , Examples of Clinical Work with Children and Young People , The journey to becoming a family , Working with vulnerability and resilience for separated children seeking asylum: towards stories of hope , The best thing is the lunch! My friends! Being with other people in the same situation! Oh, and the slow walking! The Fostering, Adoption and Kinship Care Team Children’s Group , The strength to smile behind my mask , Helping children through working with their adoptive parents , The Voices of Adults who have been Adopted or Experienced the Care System Either as Children or as those who are Currently Parenting Children , Extracts from two poems , The lived experience of transracial adoption , Positioning and respectful professional interventions for working with the legacy of Irish institutional care , Never too late , Co-creating a coherent story with adults who have been fostered or adopted , “It turns your whole world upside down … but still it brings immense pleasure”: perspectives on kinship care