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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Carer Held Health Record
By Elaine Greaves, Gill Appolinari and Carol Watson (BAAF 2008)
Price: £8.50 (+ £1.49 VAT)
A practical record book designed to store a child’s vital health information consistently and confidentially. It should be maintained by the adults looking after a child but, importantly, the record should accompany a child when he or she moves on to another placement or returns home.

First Steps in Parenting the Child who Hurts: Tiddlers and toddlers (2nd edn)
Caroline Archer (JKP, 1999)
Price: £13.95
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.

Fostering a Child: A guide for people interested in fostering
Henrietta Bond (BAAF 2004)
Price: £8.50
This short guide describes the sorts of children needing to be fostered and why, as well as who can foster and what to do if you want to be a foster carer.

Fostering Changes: How to improve relationships and manage difficult behaviour
by Clare Pallett, Kathy Blackeby, William Yule, Roger Weissman and Stephen Scott (BAAF, 2005)
Price: £100 (discount for two or more copies)
A unique training course to help foster carers of children under 12 manage behavioural difficulties and form positive relationships.

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.

If you don't stick with me, who will? The challenges and rewards of foster care
Edited by Henrietta Bond (BAAF, March 2005)
Price: £8.95
This collection of first person accounts tells the stories of complex forms of foster care and what it is like to foster children and young people who have experienced loss, trauma, abuse, or just a very difficult start in life.

Just a member of the family
by Bridget Betts (BAAF, September 2005)
Price: £40.00 + £7.50 VAT
This is the first film about adoption from a birth child´s point of view. It features a number of children talking candidly about how they prepared and were prepared for a child joining their family. Guidelines and suggested questions accompany the film. Available in video and DVD.

Learn the Child - Helping looked after children to learn
By Kate Cairns and Chris Stanway (BAAF, July 2004)
Price: £25.00
This resource recommends ways in which looked after children - and any other traumatised children - can be best supported in their learning.

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.

Next Steps in Parenting the Child who Hurts: Tykes and teens
Caroline Archer (JKP, 1999)
Price: £15.95
This volume follows on from the First Steps book and continues the challenging journey through childhood and into adolescence.

One of the family: A handbook for kinship carers
by Hedi Argent(BAAF, August 2005)
Price: £6.50
This handbook aims to give families and friends who are kinship carers, or may become kinship carers, information about the choices they can make, the assessment process, the legal framework, the child care system, the support they can expect and the financial help available.

Parenting a child who has been sexually abused
Jayne Hellett and John Simmonds (BAAF , April 2003)
Prices:
Training Programme: £14.95 plus (+ £2.61 VAT)
DVD - 90 minutes: £50.00 (+ £8.75 VAT)
This skills development training programme has been developed for caregivers who have children in placement who have been sexually abused.

Preparing for permenence
Compiled and written by a BAAF working party (BAAF, 1998)
Understanding the assessment process £2.50
Assessment: Points to consider £1.95
Key issues in assessment £3.95

Providing a Secure Base in Long-Term foster Care
by Mary Beek and Gillian Schofield (BAAF, February 2004)
Price: £13.95
A study which will inspire social workers, foster carers and other professionals concerned with the stability and security of children in long-term foster families.

Related by Adoption: A handbook for grandparents and other relatives
by Hedi Argent (BAAF 2004)
Price: £6.50
A brief handbook that gives grandparents-to-be and other relatives pertinent information about adoption today.

Talking about Adoption to your Adopted Child: A guide for adoptive parents (4th edition)
by Marjorie Morrison (BAAF 2007)
Price: £8.50
A popular and comprehensive guide outlining the whys, whens and hows of telling the truth about an adopted child’s origins. It is the only publication of its kind in the UK.

We Are Fostering
by Jean Camis (BAAF, November 2003)
Price: £12.77 (+£2.23 VAT)

A workbook to help birth children to know themselves and their role in a fostering family.

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...

Whatever Happened to Adam
by Hedi Argent (BAAF, 1998)
Price: £4.95
This remarkable book tells the stories of 20 young people with disabilities and the families who chose to care for them.