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Authors: Mary Beek

Please note that not all BAAF books are yet listed here. If you can't find the book you are looking for, please try looking in our full catalogue.

Mary Beek is a Senior Research Associate and Gillian Schofield is Co-Director at the Centre for Research on the Child and Family at the University of East Anglia where Gillian is also Director of the Psychosocial Sciences programme. Gillian also Chairs BAAF's Research Group Advisory Committee.

Books that Mary Beek has written, edited or illustrated include (listed alphabetically):

Attachment for foster care and adoption: A training programme
by Gillian Schofield and Mary Beek (BAAF, June 2006)
Price: £35.00

This modular training programme is intended for use with foster carers and adopters, and for professionals working alongside them. It will help caregivers to understand attachment and apply this to understanding children’s behaviours and their own parenting styles, as well as to think about ways of further developing their skills and capacities. An accompanying CD-ROM contains handouts and background information that may be presented as a PowerPoint presentation or through overhead projection slides.

Growing up in foster care
by Gillian Schofield , Mary Beek , Kay Sargent and June Thoburn (BAAF, November 2000 - reprinted 2004)
Price: £14.95

This book is essential reading for all social workers, managers, guardians and other professionals concerned for the welfare of children in long-term care.

Providing a Secure Base in Long-Term foster Care
by Mary Beek and Gillian Schofield (BAAF, February 2004)
Price: £13.95

A study which will inspire social workers, foster carers and other professionals concerned with the stability and security of children in long-term foster families.

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