Social Work and Foster Care
- Helen Cosis Brown - Middlesex University, UK
Working with children in foster care is a demanding and rigorous aspect of social work practice. Difficult decisions in fast-moving and often complex situations have to be made, and for students and practitioners alike, there is a vast array of legislation, law and social policy to understand.
This book is written to help social workers and social work students get to grips with the complexity of foster care. The child is placed at the heart of the text and there are substantial chapters on law, policy frameworks and the overreaching theoretical and research evidence to support good practice. There is also a strong focus on practical skills such as empathy and relationship-based practice.
This is an essential text for experienced social workers or those currently in training.
An ideal book for practitioners wanting to update knowledge of Fostering, and essential for those within Fostering Services, wishing to develop their practice further.
This is a good text for those working in fostering. The reasoning behind having "National Minimum Standards" and their relationship with The Fostering Regulations could perhaps have been explained in a bit more depth but otherwise this was a clearly written and comprehensive book which fills a gap in the market
A useful primer text.
Really good straight forward text that allows students to get to grips with essential areas within foster care
As most of my practice has been in foster care I enjoyed this book. It is a book that is useful for social workers, foster carers and students.
Excellent text- will help students understand much more about current social work and contemporary foster care.
A useful survey of an area of work that is of increasing importance, especially for social work studentts
