Books, booklets & multimedia

Adopting a Child
by Jenifer Lord (BAAF, 2008)
Price: £8.95
With over 60,000 copies already sold, this beginner’s guide is the book for anyone who is thinking of adopting a child or children. Now in its 8th edition it provides essential information and helps explain the adoption process.

Attachment handbook for foster care and adoption
by Gillian Schofield and Mary Beek (BAAF, May 2006)
Price: £24.95
This comprehensive and authoritative book provides an accessible account of core attachment concepts. Vivid case examples are used throughout to make connections with the reality, both the challenges and the rewards, of daily life in foster and adoptive families. This book will be an indispensable resource for practitioners, foster carers, adoptive parents and all those seeking to ensure that children in need of family care get the very best experience possible and that foster carers and adoptive parents get the support they deserve and need.

Attachment, trauma and resilience: Therapeutic caring for children
by Kate Cairns (BAAF, reprinted 2006)
Price: £12.95
Offers an insight into family life with children who have experienced attachement difficulties, loss, abuse and trauma. Over 8,000 copies sold.

A Child's Journey Through Placement
by Vera Fahlberg (BAAF 2004)
Price: £23.50
Clear, informative and full of practical ideas and case examples this is an essential reference and resource book for professionals. Over 17,000 copies sold.

Carer Held Health Record
By Elaine Greaves, Gill Appolinari and Carol Watson (BAAF 2008)
Price: £8.50 (+ £1.49 VAT)
A practical record book designed to store a child’s vital health information consistently and confidentially. It should be maintained by the adults looking after a child but, importantly, the record should accompany a child when he or she moves on to another placement or returns home.

Effective Panels - Guidance on good practice on regulations, process and good practice in adoption and permanence panels
by Jenifer Lord and Deborah Cullen (BAAF, 2005)
Price: £10.95
This guide applies to adoption and permanence panels in England. It has been comprehensively revised and updated following the Adoption and Children Act 2002 and associated regulations and guidance.

Life Story Work 3rd edition
by Tony Ryan and Rodger Walker (BAAF, 2007 )
Price: £15.95
An authoritative guide that will help anyone who wants to use life story work as a way of helping children. This new edition has been comprehensively revised to take into account all recent legislation and incorporates substantial new material. It presents a rich and creative assortment of useful techniques and exercises for adults working with children in different settings.

My life and me
by Jean Camis (BAAF 2001, reprinted 2006)
Price: £17.04 (£14.50 + £2.54 VAT)
Colourful life story workbook for use with children separated from their birth families.

Nutmeg Gets Adopted
by Judith Foxon (BAAF 2001)
price: £12.00
This book tells the story of Nutmeg, a little squirrel who goes to live with a new family after his birth mother realises that she cannot keep him safe.

Preparing to Adopt - Training pack
Devised by Pat Beesley, Barbara Hutchinson, Ian Millar and Sushila de Sousa
Written by Eileen Fursland (January 2010)
This new edition of BAAF’s established and highly respected training programme has been comprehensively revised and includes additional new material. It sets out a far-reaching and inclusive approach to preparing people who wish to adopt. The pack consists of a Trainer’s Guide, an Applicant’s Workbook and a DVD/Video. It will help prospective adopters to gain an appreciation of what adoption means and to consider the implications of adoption for themselves.
Trainer’s Guide: £37.50
Applicant’s Workbook: £26.44 (£22.50 + £3.94 VAT)
DVD/Video: £47.00 (£40.00 + £7.00 VAT)