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.
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Tia’s Wishes
Words by Helen Kahn , illustrations by Sarah Rawlings (BAAF , December 2002)
Price: £10.95 (+£1.92 VAT)
Tia’s Wishes is intended to help girls aged 4 to 10 who are waiting to be placed for adoption to understand and cope with their feelings.
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Testing the Limits of Foster Care: Fostering as an alternative to secure accommodation
by Moira Walker , Malcolm Hill and John Triseliotis (BAAF, October 2002)
Price: £10.00
This study looks at a pioneering scheme that offers fostering placements for young people whose behaviour would place them beyond the limits of ‘normal’ foster care.
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Shaping Childcare Practice in Scotland: Key papers on adoption and fostering
By Professor Malcolm Hill (BAAF, September 2002)
Price: £5.00
In this guide, the authors examine how adoption practice has evolved and chart the changes.
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Adoption Support Services for Families in Difficulty:
A literature review and UK survey
by Alan Rushton and Cherilyn Dance (BAAF, September 2002)
Price: £6.95
The survey is the first UK-wide research into the types of routine and specialist support services available for adoptive families.
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Staying Connected: Managing Contact In Adoption
Edited by Hedi Argent (BAAF, August 2002)
Price: £9.95
This book illuminates the experiences and best practices in making and managing the contact that adopted children have with their birth parents.
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Nutmeg Gets Cross
by Judith Foxon (BAAF, July 2002)
Price: £10.00
Suitable for post-adoption work with children, this story offers a practical way to identify, explore and understand painful feelings that are likely to surface following adoption.
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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.
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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.
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Billy Says – “It’s not your fault”
By Joanne Alper (FosterPlus 2002)
Price: £6.99
Explores children’s feelings when they are living in neglectful families.
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Billy Says – “Foster carers can help”
By Joanne Alper (FosterPlus 2002)
Price: £6.99
Explains what happens when children move in to foster care.
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Billy Says – “Living as a new family takes practice”
By Joanne Alper (FosterPlus 2002)
Price: £6.99
Explores living with an adoptive family and the realities of having to work things out together.
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Billy Says – “Waiting can be hard”
By Joanne Alper (FosterPlus 2002)
Price: £6.99
Focuses on waiting for an adoptive family and the feelings connected with this.
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Billy Says – “What you think matters”
By Joanne Alper (FosterPlus 2002)
Price: £6.99
Covers courts and the planning process.
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Billy Says – “You should be taken care of”
By Joanne Alper (FosterPlus 2002)
Price: £6.99
Explores children’s fears around moving in to foster care.
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Billy Says series
By Joanne Alper (FosterPlus 2002)
Price: £32 for the set of 6 books
This series of six books guides children through a range of issues relating to fostering and adoption, by focusing on the experiences of a five-year-old Kirsty and her magic doll Billy.
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