A therapeutic story for children who struggle to trust (Free Access)
Lenny the Lion This is the story of a ferocious lion who is now learning to be brave like a cub. Lenny the Lion is on an adventure of a…
READ MOREA letter to parents (free access)
To past, present and future parents, I see you desperately trying to hold everything together, why would you trust me to hold you as well when you have fought and…
READ MOREAdoption Support Fund Update: Explaining the Fair Access Limit
In October 2016, after receiving more than double the applications they had anticipated, a fair access limit was introduced by the Adoption Support Fund (ASF). I think it is fair…...
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Why is my therapist seeing me and not my child? (Free Access)
As a relative newcomer to working with adoptive parents (albeit with lots of experience working with children and families in mainstream services), I have noticed this question coming-up a lot….
READ MOREAdoption Support Fund: Important Update
From 1st April 2016 the eligibility criteria for who can access the Adoption Support Fund has been extended to include: young people who are cared for under special guardianship orders…...
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THE ADOPTION SUPPORT FUND EXPLAINED!
Historically, gaining access to specialist therapy for young people who have been adopted had been a huge battle for adoptive parents. Often their children’s difficulties are not recognised by Child…...
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Sally Donovan’s Adopter Blog (Nov ’14): Beige is the New Orange (FREE ACCESS)
Our house was falling apart, Shakin’ Stevens style; missing roof tiles, rotting windows, flaky paint and general shabbiness (not the chic type) have been taking hold whilst our attention and…...
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Sally Donovan’s Adopter Blog (Mar 2014): Regression Paves the Way for Progress (FREE ACCESS)
When the adoptive family boat is steady, it is tempting not to do anything to risk rocking it. There are times when we must sit tight, for everyone’s benefit and…
READ MOREGetting Your Voice Heard (FREE ACCESS)
I so often hear that foster carers and adopters feel that their knowledge of their child(ren) is not taken into account by the powers that be. The struggle in getting…
READ MOREHow Effective is Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP)? (FREE ACCESS)
So what do we know about the therapies out there for fostered and adopted children? Anecdotally, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) is one of the therapies that appears to be effective but…
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