Creating New Families: Therapeutic Approaches to Fostering and Adoption

335 Pages·2007·1.29 MB·English

by  Caroline Lindsey

CREATING NEW FAMILIES
Tavistock Clinic Series
Margot Waddell (Series Editor)
Published and distributed by Karnac Books
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CREATING NEW FAMILIES
Therapeutic Approaches to
Fostering, Adoption, and Kinship Care
Edited by
Jenny Kenrick, Caroline Lindsey,
& Lorraine Tollemache
Foreword by
Lionel Hersov
KARNAC

CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix
SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE xi
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS xiii
FOREWORD
Lionel Hersov xvii
PREFACE
Caroline Lindsey xix
Introduction
Caroline Lindsey 1
PART I
Theoretical considerations 11
1 A systemic conceptual framework
Caroline Lindsey and Sara Barratt 13
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2 Psychoanalytic framework for therapeutic work
with looked-after and adopted children
Jenny Kenrick 24
3 The “added value” of attachment theory and research
for clinical work in adoption and foster care
Miriam Steele 33
4 The uses of a neuroscientific perspective
Graham Music 43
5 The role of psychiatric assessment and diagnosis
Caroline Lindsey 51
6 Psychological assessment of looked-after children
Rita Harris & Sally Hodges 58
PART II
Psychotherapeutic work with children 65
7 Work with children in transition
Jenny Kenrick 67
8 Cognitive behaviour therapy
Sally Hodges 84
9 Individual psychotherapy for late-adopted children:
how one new attachment can facilitate another
Juliet Hopkins 95
10 Where do I belong?
Dilemmas for children and adolescents who have been
adopted or brought up in long-term foster care
Margaret Rustin 107
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PART III
Psychotherapeutic work with parents and families 127
11 Minding the gap: reconciling the gaps between
expectation and reality in work with adoptive families
Lorraine Tollemache 129
12 Systemic work with families after adoption
Sara Barratt 145
13 Kinship care: family stories, loyalties, and binds
Sara Barratt & Julia Granville 162
14 From tired and emotional to praise and pleasure:
parenting groups for adoptive, foster, and kinship carers
Julia Granville & Laverne Antrobus 180
PART IV
Consultative work with parents, families, and professionals 195
15 Consultative work with professionals
Caroline Lindsey 197
16 Therapeutic consultations about the transition
into care and children in transition
Lorraine Tollemache 209
17 Contact with birth families: implications
for assessment and integration in new families
Caroline Lindsey 221
PART V
Work in different settings 237
18 The contribution of organizational dynamics
to the triple deprivation of looked-after children
Louise Emanuel 239
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19 Children who cannot live in families:
the role of residential care
Hamish Canham 257
PART VI
A family’s perspective 271
20 “Then there were four”:
learning to be a family
Jason Andrews 273
REFERENCES 283
INDEX 299
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First and foremost, we would like to thank the children and foster,
adoptive, and kinship carers for the part they have played in the
creation of this book. Through their collaboration with us, they
have helped us to understand their dilemmas and needs.
We thank all the contributors to this book. In particular, we are very
grateful to the parent, “Jason Andrews” (a fictional name), who wrote
on behalf of his family, but who cannot be openly acknowledged for
reasons of confidentiality. He provides a unique perspective on the
value of the clinical work of the team to his family.
We are very honoured that Professor Lionel Hersov agreed to write
the Foreword. He was an honorary member of the Fostering and
Adoption team for several years. During that time we benefited from
his wise advice based on his extensive experience of this field. We owe
him a huge debt of gratitude.
We thank Dr Caroline McKenna for her valued advice in the prepa-
ration of Chapter 5. We thank Julia Granville for her help in providing
case material for chapter 15.
The excerpt from “One Art” from The Complete Poems 1927–1979
by Elizabeth Bishop is reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus &
Giroux, LCC.
We thank Diggory for providing the cover illustration.
We are grateful to Margot Waddell for her patience and encourage-
ment. We wish to thank Christelle Yeyet-Jacquot, our editor at Karnac.
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