Books, booklets & multimedia

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.

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.

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.

Adopting a Child
by Jenifer Lord (BAAF, 2006)
Price: £8.50
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 7th edition it provides essential information and helps explain the adoption process.

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.

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.

A Bibliography of Family Placement Literature
Edited by John Sudbery, Stephen Hicks, Sheila Thompson, Hugh McLaughlin and Carole Bramley with Katrina Wilson (BAAF, May 2005)
Price: £7.95
A guide to publications on children, parents and carers.

Costs and outcomes of non-infant adoptions
by Julie Selwyn, Wendy Sturgess, David Quinton and Catherine Baxter (BAAF, May 2006)
Price: £12.95
This book reports the findings of a Department of Health-funded study of a complete sample of 130 children for whom an “adoption in best interests decision was made during a defined period in the 1990s. It allows an accurate assessment of the success of adoption as a placement choice to be made, and makes recommendations for policy and practice based on this complete sample. It will be of interest to all those involved in making placement decisions for “looked after” children.

Could you be my parent? Adoption and Fostering Stories
Edited by Leonie Sturge-Moore (BAAF, November 2005)
Price: £8.50
This enthralling anthology gathers together the stories of children who need a new permanent family, and the people who have welcomed them into their homes. The informative, often moving accounts, taken from BAAF's family-finding newspaper Be My Parent, create a fascinating snapshot of the process of adoption and foster care, and the experiences of the carers and children involved.

Helping children cope with separation and loss
Claudia Jewett
BAAF/Batsford 1995 (2nd edition)
Price: £16.95
Using case histories and sample dialogues, Claudia Jewett explains how to help children come to a timely resolution of their grief.

Intercountry Adoption: Developments, Trends and Perspectives
by Peter Selman (BAAF, December 2000)
Price: £16.95
This unique anthology provides fascinating insights into a controversial and topical issue, as well as many possible lessons.

Lesbian and gay fostering and adoption
Edited by Stephen Hicks and Janet McDermott
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1998
Price: £16.95
This immensely readable book will be of enormous encouragement to lesbians or gay men considering adoption or fostering.

Loving & Living with Traumatised Children
Megan Hirst (BAAF , February 2005)
Price: £6.50
This book tells the story of nine adoptive parents who came together for mutual support to look at the effects on themselves of living with traumatised children.

Welcoming Children into your Neighbourhood
by Jane Espley (BAAF, December 2004)
Price: £3.50
This colourful, short booklet explains to neighbours and other members of the community what might be going on when some unruly, noisy children move into the neighbourhood...