 | First Steps in Parenting the Child Who Hurts: Tiddlers and Toddlers by Caroline Archer
Buy new: £11.09 / Used from: £9.37 A good first book on attachment with reference to babies and toddlers
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 | Next Steps in Parenting the Child Who Hurts: Tykes and Teens by Caroline Archer
Buy new: £13.70 / Used from: £11.10 The sequel to the book above, for school aged children
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 | Attachment, Trauma and Resilience: Therapeutic Caring for Children by Kate Cairns
Buy new: £7.53 / Used from: £6.05 Wonderful combination of real life accounts of living with children affected by trauma and theory. I love it so much I got my copy signed by the author herself!
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 | Attachment Handbook for Foster Care and Adoption by Gillian Schofield
Buy new: £14.77 / Used from: £12.00 This book by Mary Beek from Norfolk Children's Services and Gillian Schofield from UEA offers a structure to think about providing foster children a Secure Base
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 | A Child's Journey Through Placement by Vera Fahlberg
Buy new: £14.57 / Used from: £12.57 This book opened my and many other peoples' eyes to the experience of being and caring for the looked after child
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 | Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain by Sue Gerhardt
Buy new: £7.65 / Used from: £6.98 This book explains what brain research has taught us about how the nurture given by the loving parent shapes babies' brains and their lifelong emotional health. Another eye-opener!
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 | What Every Parent Needs to Know: The Incredible Effects of Love, Nurture and Play on Your Child's Development by Margot Sunderland
Buy new: £9.69 / Used from: £8.59 A book about caring for babies and little ones based on the insights from the new insights into babies' brains described in the book above. I bought one for my daughter on the birth of her baby.
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 | How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk (How to Help Your Child) (How to Help Your Child) by Adele Faber; Elaine Mazlish
Buy new: £6.68 / Used from: £3.15 Lots of good ideas for getting co-operation from children without everyone getting ratty - illustrated with cartoons (you don't even have to read the rest to get lots of good ideas!)
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 | Understanding Looked After Children: Psychology for Foster Care by Jeune Guishard-Pine
Buy new: £13.05 / Used from: £37.39 A good basic introduction to foster care written by child and adolescent mental health professionals
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 | The Child's Own Story: Life Story Work with Traumatized Children: Life Story Work with Traumatised Children by Richard Rose
Buy new: £11.19 / Used from: £6.99 I haven't read this one or the one that follows, but a book about life story work should be very helpful to any foster carer
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 | Life Story Work: A Practical Guide to Helping Children Understand Their Past by Tony Ryan
Buy new: £9.32 / Used from: £7.25 This one says it includes how to use interactive media in Life story work, so mught be your thing if you are IT savvy. Both this and the one above look good from the blurb!
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