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Contact in Adoption and Permanent Foster Care
Research, theory and practice

	Price: £14.95	BAAF, September 2004 ISBN: 978-1-903699-60-7 pages A5

'This important book takes the field forward in a decisive fashion through its bringing together of systematic findings from both quantitative and qualitative research by several different research groups in both the UK and North America.' Professor Michael Rutter

This book gathers together the latest thoughts and research findings of many of the leading authorities on the subject of contact in adoption and permanent foster care.

Over the last twenty years, the idea of adopted and permanently fostered children maintaining some form of contact with their birth relatives has risen rapidly up the political and practice agenda. Debates for and against contact have identified an urgent need for more research on this sensitive and difficult issue.

This book

• looks at both infant and older child placements
• describes the varying characteristics of permanent carers and birth relatives
• provides a comprehensive and unflinching analysis of contact, and
• suggests when and when not to recommend it
• issues a demand to keep firmly in mind at all times the developmental needs of children
• will be invaluable for practitioners, policy makers and the academic community.

Contributors include: Michael Rutter, Elsbeth Neil and David Howe; Harold D. Grotevant; Susan M. Henney; Susan Ayers-Lopez and Ruth G. McRoy; Janette Logan and Carole Smith; Mary Beek and Gillian Schofield; Julie Young; Julie Selwyn; Kate Wilson and Ian Sinclair; June Thoburn; Miriam Steele.