Books, booklets & multimedia

Coming to the UK
By Eileen Fursland (BAAF, September 2008)
Price: £4.50
This informative pamphlet, aimed at unaccompanied children and young people seeking asylum in the UK, provides a handy introduction to society and lifestyle issues. Available in English, Dari, Farsi, Pashto, Kurdish and Tigrinya.

Building Identity
By Kate Cairns and Eileen Fursland (BAAF/Akamas, May 2008)
Price: £49.95
Price: £39.95 for members
A training programme designed to help carers help children overcome disruptive early experiences and boost their identity and self-esteem. Includes a CD-ROM containing PowerPoint slide presentations and handouts.

Caring for Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children and Young People
By Eileen Fursland (BAAF, 2007)
Introductory pamphlet £3.50
Country specific pamphlet £2.00

A series of pamphlets that aim to help foster carers and others learn about the circumstances that unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young people have experienced, the effect of traumatic events on these young people, what their needs are likely to be, what issues are important for them now, and how they can help these young people cope with the profound changes in their young lives. The series includes an introductory pamphlet as well as five country specific pamphlets focusing on Afghanistan, China, Eritrea, Iran and Somalia.

Managing Difficult Behaviour
By Clare Pallett, Kathy Blackeby, William Yule, Roger Weissman and Stephen Scott with Eileen Fursland
Illustrations by Fran Orford (BAAF, March 2008)
Price: £10.95 + £1.92 VAT
A unique handbook that aims to provide foster carers of the under 12s with new skills to help them improve a child’s behaviour. Includes useful tips, case examples and exercises to help improve relationships and make every day seem easier and more manageable.

Safer Caring
A training programme
Kate Cairns and Eileen Fursland (BAAF, 2007)
Price: £39.95
Foster carers who take on the risk of caring for troubled children need and deserve the best help available. And agencies owe it to them to prepare them as well as possible. This training course aims to give foster carers the knowledge they need to prevent, recognise and get the right treatment for secondary traumatic stress disorders and to assess and manage risk and work as part of a team to provide safer caring.

Preparing to Adopt - Training pack
Devised by Pat Beesley, Barbara Hutchinson, Ian Millar and Sushila de Sousa
Written by Eileen Fursland (BAAF, September 2006)
This new edition of BAAF’s established and highly respected training programme sets out a comprehensive approach to preparing adopters. It has been thoroughly revised and updated to meet the legislative requirements for both procedure and practice in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and reflect the Adoption and Children Act 2002. The Trainer’s Guide includes imaginative exercises and reference to further reading as well as a CD-ROM containing presentations and handouts.
Trainer’s Guide: £35.00
Applicant’s Workbook: £23.00 (£20.00 + £3.50 VAT)
DVD/Video: £47.00 (£40.00 + £7.00 VAT)

Trauma and Recovery
A training programme
By Kate Cairns and Eileen Fursland
(BAAF, 2007)
Price: £49.95
This flexible training course has been designed to help social workers, staff in residential homes, foster carers and adoptive parents to understand more about the needs of traumatised children. It explains how carers can help children to adapt to the developmental impairments they have suffered, build resilience in a traumatised child and provide an environment that will enhance healing.