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Attachment is at the heart of family life and at the heart of foster care and adoption. Attachment theory and research provide a vital developmental framework for making sense of the behaviour and relationship strengths and difficulties that children bring from their complex backgrounds. It also offers a most valuable resource for understanding the kind of caregiving in foster care and adoptive families that can enable children to feel more trusting, confident, competent and secure.
This comprehensive and authoritative book provides an accessible account of attachment concepts. It traces…
The chapters in this Research Note are grouped in three sections. The first section (chapters 2–5) presents the international experiences. The second (chapters 6–7) presents the Russian background, whereas the third section (chapter 8–9) offers an updated presentation of Russian realities as to the placement of orphans.
In chapter 2, Jørn Holm-Hansen addresses the issue of policy transfer distinguishing between “lender-driven” and “borrower-driven” transfer. In chapter 3, Sven Hessle and Yvonne Askerlund argue that institutions that are harmful to children should be closed down. Ten…
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Mental health practitioners recognize that a sense of belonging is, as discussed in the Introduction, critical to humans attaining and maintaining a sense of emotional well-being and good mental health (Anant, 1966). The title of this book—Towards Belonging—is intended to convey belonging as a state of being that is achieved through the development of a relationship. The ideas and questions raised in this chapter derive from the referrals of children in care or adopted whom I have seen for psychotherapy when working in CAMHS. The common experience for most of these children and…