Books, booklets & multimedia

Acting on principle
by Ravinder Barn, Ruth Sinclair, and Dionne Ferdinand (BAAF, 1997)
Price: £8.95 (previously £12.95)
An examination of race and ethnicity in social services provision for children and families.

Adopted Children Speaking
by Caroline Thomas, Verna Beckford, Nigel Lowe & Mervyn Murch (BAAF, 1999)
Price: £9.95
If you really want to learn about children's wishes and feelings about adoption and their experience of it, this unique book is for you.

The Adopter’s Handbook: Information, resources and services for adoptive parents
by Amy Neil Salter, (BAAF, March 2006)
Price: £13.95

This practical guide helps adopters help themselves through the adoption process and beyond. Easy-to-access information will help users handle the ups and downs of the adoption experience, and prepare them for what is likely to happen along the way. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to into account new legislation and initiatives including the Adoption and Children Act 2002. It will help everyone involved in the adoption process to better help and support adopted children.

Adopters on Adoption: Reflections on Parenthood and Children
by Professor David Howe (BAAF, 1996)
Price: £9.95
This book looks at adoption from the point of view of adoptive families.

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.

Adoption Conversations
By Renée Wolfs (BAAF, September 2008)
Price: £12.95
An in-depth practical guide, written by an adoptive parent for adoptive parents, which explores the questions adopted children are likely to ask, with suggestions for helpful explanations and answers.

The Adoption Process in England
By Jenifer Lord (BAAF, April 2008)
Price: £12.95
An informative and accessible guide that takes the reader through the various stages of the adoption process, from planning adoption for a child through to contributing to the court report for the adoption order.

Adopting or fostering a sexually abused child
by Catherine Macaskill (BAAF, 1997)
Price: £16.95
Essential reading for social workers and adoptive and foster families.

Adoption & Fostering Journal Special Issue on Education
Guest edited by Sonia Jackson (BAAF, 2007)
Price: £12.00
Focuses on the education of looked-after children and how and where they are supported or – more often – failed by “the system”. Includes articles by practitioners and academics and explores themes such as education and self reliance among care leavers, the barriers to educational achievement for looked-after children and adoptive parents’ views of education.

Adoption Undone
By Karen Carr (BAAF, 2007)
Price: £7.95
This is the true story of an adoption and an adoption breakdown, bravely told by the adoptive mother. From the final court hearing, when Lucy returned to local authority care, Karen Carr looks back over the four years Lucy was with them and, without apportioning blame, describes what went wrong and why.

Adoption with contact – Implications for policy and practice
By Joan Fratter (BAAF 1996)
Price: £9.95 (previously £11.95)
The experience of adoption with contact in the cases of 32 children with special needs.

An Adoption Diary
By Maria James (BAAF, 2006)
Price: £7.95
This is an inspirational story of one couple’s emotional journey to become a family, which gives a fascinating insight into adoption in Britain today. An Adoption Diary provides a moving real life account of an adoption, chronicling every aspect of the adoption process. Spanning almost four years it covers the assessment procedure, the workshops, the heartache of months of waiting, and the final match with a two-year-old boy who lives over 200 miles away.

The Adoption Experience: Families who give children a second chance
Ann Moris (BAAF , April 2003)
Price:
£13.95
Actual adopters tell it like it is on every part of the adoption process.

Adoption & Fostering Volume 29:1 Spring 2005 - Special bumper issue - Listening to Children
Guest edited by Caroline Thomas and Nigel Thomas (BAAF, 2005)
Price: £7.95 (normally £11)
A special issue of the BAAF journal Adoption & Fostering, focusing on the theme of Listening to Children.

Adoption Law for Adopters
By Mary Lane
(Adoption UK, 2006)
Price: £10.95
A comprehensive, clear and accessible guide to the new adoption law in England and Wales (from December 2005), the main focus of this book is adoption of children from the public care system.

Adoption Now - Law, regulations, guidance and standards
By Fergus Smith and Roy Stewart with Deborah Cullen (BAAF, March 2006)
Price: £7.50
Quick to use, comprehensive and portable, this handy pocket book draws together all current legislation, rules, guidance and procedures relating to adoption in England today. It covers all stages of the process and related information – in easily digested bite-sized chunks - and also includes the National Minimum Standards. With all essential information brought together in such a compact format, the busy practitioner and professional will find this little compendium an invaluable quick reference guide and immense timesaver.

The Adoption Reunion Handbook
by Liz Trinder, Julia Feast and David Howe (John Wiley and Sons Ltd, December 2004)
Price: £12.99
'The first reunion handbook I've ever read that I couldn't put down. Essential and illuminating reading for anyone involved in adoption reunion.'

Adoption, Search and Reunion:
the long-term experience of adopted adults
By David Howe and Julia Feast with Denise Coster, The Children's Society Price: £14.50
This fascinating study was originally published by The Children's Society (2000) and has now been reprinted by BAAF with a new introduction.

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.

The Adoption Triangle Revisited: A study of adoption, search and reunion experiences
By John Triseliotis, Julia Feast and Fiona Kyle (BAAF, 2005)
Price: £9.95
The first British study to explore the individual experiences and perspectives of all the key players in the adoption, search and reunion process.

Adoption: what it is and what it means
By Shaila Shah with a foreword by Roger Morgan (BAAF, 2003)
Price: £3.50
Presented in accessible and jargon-free language, this colourful guide will provide children with a good introduction to adoption.

After Adoption – Working with adoptive families
Edited by Rena Phillips and Emma McWilliam (BAAF 1996)
Price: £9.95 (previously £14.95)
Anthology focusing on post-adoption support for adoptive families illustrated with case studies.

Approaching Fatherhood: A guide for adoptive dads and others
by Paul May (BAAF, March 2005)
Price: £9.95
This timely and thought provoking book is the first in the UK to combine the experiences and perspectives of adoptive fathers with a guide to the adoption process, from the man's point of view.

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: £11.95
Offers an insight into family life with children who have experienced attachement difficulties, loss, abuse and trauma. Over 8,000 copies sold.