Books, booklets & multimedia

First Steps in Parenting the Child who Hurts:
Tiddlers and toddlers (2nd edn)

Published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers for Adoption UK

	Price: £13.95 140 pages	JKP, 1999 ISBN 1 85302 801 0

Primarily aimed at adoptive parents, but of considerable use to foster carers of young children, this book offers practical, sensitive guidance through the areas of separation, loss and trauma in early childhood. It reassures parents/carers that no problem faced as a result of a child’s early experiences is too insignificant or undeserving of a solution. Archer sets out purposefully to encourage confidence and thereby to enable enjoyment of parenting the young person, confessing this is the book she herself (as an adoptive parent) would have welcomed 20 years ago.