Useful reading

  • Attachment, Trauma and Resilience. Therapeutic caring for children by Kate Cairns published by BAAF
  • Fostering Changes, Treating Attachment Disordered Children by Richard Delaney published by Wood N Barnes
  • The Magic Years - understanding and handling the problems of early childhood by Selma Fraiberg published by Simon and Schuster
  • Fitting the pieces together by Vera Fahlberg published by BAAF
  • Helping children to build self-esteem by Deborah Plummer published by Jessica Kingsley
  • A journey through placement, by Vera Fahlberg published by BAAF 1994
  • Promoting Resilience in Children in Foster Care by Robbie Gilligan
  • The fostering network is the UK's leading charity working in the area of fostering. (It used to be the National Foster Care Association) You may find it helpful to look at their publication list, and/or join the association. They also have CD-ROMs.
    Tel: 020 7620 6400 e-mail info@fostering.net
  • The British Association for Adoption & Fostering is another organisation, which publishes helpful books, pamphlets etc.
    Tel: 020 7421 2600 e-mail mail@baaf.org.uk

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