Post-Adoption Support in Crisis: Families Speak Out
If you are at all interested in Adoption and LinkedIn, you will already be aware of Claire Agius, a PhD…
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The importance of support and understanding for adoptive families
‘Adoption is in crisis’ was the headline of one of our recent guest blogposts, but are things getting better? Blogs…
Why I Wrote “Decoding Aggression, Complex Behaviours, and Brain-Based Disabilities” Maude Champage
As an adoptive parent and as a professional dedicated to supporting children, youth, and their families, I’ve spent years observing…
Fellowship Work – Al Coates
The start point is my own home, we’re a family made through fostering and adoption. How that came about is…
Adoption is in crisis — and change is no longer optional | Fiona Wells | The PATCH Steering Group
Adoption is in crisis — and change is no longer optional. We’ve created a full report and an executive…
Hearing from adopters about living with traumatised young people
In March 2016 I went to Kings Cross to meet with someone I had been talking to on Twitter for…
Support for Adoptive Families
From time to time I receive books for review, particularly where they address the issue of child to parent violence…
Supporting adoptive families experiencing #CPV: making things better, not worse
This is a post that has been a long time brewing. My thanks to a friend for her contribution in…
Therapeutically Parenting Teens, book review time
Julie Selwyn’s groundbreaking report into adoption breakdown found that around one third of adoptions pass smoothly, around a third of…
Unless we address the issues behind CPV, “we are committing children to failure”
Tuesday, this week, saw an explosion across the media within Britain of items on the challenges of adoption, particularly the…