Fostering good relationships : partnership work in therapy with looked after and adopted children / Miriam Richardson and Fiona Peacock with Geoff Brown (and 3 others) on behalf of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy.

"Combining Excellence in Psychotherapy and Counselling."--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-150) and index.

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COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE; FOREWORD Fostering good relationships: partnership work in therapy with looked after and adopted children; Introduction: Why partnerships?; CHAPTER ONE Perspectives on the world of the looked after and adopted child; CHAPTER TWO The views of adoptive parents and a foster parent on partnership working; CHAPTER THREE Partnership with birth families; CHAPTER FOUR Therapeutic multi-disciplinary collaboration

CHAPTER FIVE Helping children with challenge and change: partnership working in transitions and educationCHAPTER SIX Working together with the stories of children's troubled lives; CHAPTER SEVEN Finding a future beyond the crisis: looked after children in secure care; CHAPTER EIGHT Working in partnership with adolescents in care who have experienced early trauma; POSTSCRIPT; REFERENCES; INDEX

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This book explores the importance of effective multi-agency and multi-disciplinary partnership work for the mental health of children and young people in care and adoption. It takes an overall systemic perspective, but the co-authors contribute different theoretical approaches. It focuses on practice, showing how practitioners can draw on their varied theoretical approaches to enhance the way they work together and in partnership with carers and with professionals from other agencies. The book provides a context that looks at the needs of children and young people in the care and adoption systems, the overall importance for their mental health of joined up 'corporate parenting', and national and local approaches to this. It then moves to focus on practical ways of working therapeutically in partnership with others who contribute diverse skills and perspectives, using specific case examples. Additional chapters look at collaborative ways of working with key carers to enhance their therapeutic role. Finally, some of the main elements of partnership collaboration are explored, as well as the challenges of work across agencies and disciplines.

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