‘Creative Connection Ideas for Prison Visits’
from Sarah Higgins, Barnardo’s UK
This key resource for adapting to Covid-19 related prison lockdowns reflects on creative ideas to encourage connection through a digital or physical screen. Read it here.
All Alone in the World : Children of the Incarcerated
by Nell Bernstein
Nell Bernstein takes an intimate look at parents and children—over two million of them in the U.S.—separated by the penal system. With a number of case-studies, it is a moving condemnation of current incarceration policy and “a must-read for lawmakers as well as for lawbreakers” (Our Weekly Los Angeles).
Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart
by Vera Williams
(ages 8-12)
Attachment, Trauma and Healing: Understanding and Treating Attachment Disorder in Children and Families
by Terry Levy & Michael Orlans
Attachment, Trauma, and Healing examines the causes of attachment disorder, and provides in-depth discussion on effective solutions–including attachment-focused assessment and diagnosis, specialised training and education for caregivers, the controversial “in arms” treatment for children and caregivers, and early intervention and prevention programs for high-risk families.
Building a Home Within: Meeting the Emotional Needs of Children and Youth in Foster Care
by Toni Vaughn Heineman & Diane Whrensaft
For children and adolescents in foster care, stable relationships with caring adults are often absent. When young people work with the same therapist for as long as they need to, they’ll make better progress toward developing healthy relationships and hope for the future. Readers will gain insight on how to build positive relationships with children and address various aspects of foster care. Case studies and therapy-in-action scripts make this book ideal for organisations setting up their own programs.
Child Development for Child Care and Protection Workers
by Brigid Daniel and Sally Wassell
Child Development for Child Care and Protection Workers is a text for students and practitioners in the child care and protection field, covering key issues of resilience and vulnerability and the impact of protective or adverse environments. It contains updated practice examples that take into account contemporary issues affecting children and young people, and includes case studies and activities to improve understanding and reflect on good practice.
A Child’s Journey through Placement
by Vera Fahlberg
A readable, compassionate and practical text, A Child’s Journey Through Placement provides the foundation, the resources, and the tools to help students, professionals, parents and others who care to support children on their journey through placement to adulthood. Dr. Fahlberg shares her experience and expertise, outlining the significance of attachment and separation, the developmental stages specific to adoptive children and providing guidance on minimizing the trauma of moves. The book also features practical advice on case planning, managing behavior and direct work with children, and throughout are case studies and exercises which provide opportunities for further learning.
Children with Parents in Prison: Child Welfare Policy, Program & Practice Issues
by Cynthia Seymour & Creasie Hairston
This text explores the many challenges facing the child welfare system as it attempts to work with children of imprisoned parents, and aims to stimulate discussion about how to best meet the needs of these children and families. It aims to provide a resource for the child welfare community as it responds to the growing numbers of children made vulnerable by their parents’ incarceration.
Foster Placements: Why They Succeed and Why They Fail
by Ian Sinclair, Kate Wilson & Ian Gibbs
Based on exhaustive research, the authors discuss the primary concerns in foster placement planning, considering the high frequency of placement breakdowns, their impact on the child’s behaviour and school performance, and the challenges this places on foster families.
Fostering Changes: Myth, Meaning and Magic Bullets in Attachment
by Richard Delaney Theory
3rd Edition
A practical book for those who care for, treat, and live with foster, kinship, or adopted children who historically have often been the victims of abuse and/or neglect. Focus is placed on understanding children from troubled backgrounds and on helping them to feel more secure, worthy of caregiving, and willing to accept parents as partners in their life.
Handbook for Treatment of Attachment-Trauma Problems in Children
by Beverly James
Attachment Disorder occurs when a child has difficulty establishing new attachments if old ones are severely disrupted, and it is typically seen in victims of various types of trauma. This text seeks to explain how best to treat these children so that they can love and trust again and form lasting relationships.
Help for the Hard Times: Getting through Loss
by Earl Hipp
Earl Hipp addresses loss from the perspective of the heart. He discusses young people’s experiences with loss and helps them figure out ways to continue functioning after loss. Caregivers and teachers will provide students with tools to grieve and ways to keep their losses from becoming too overwhelming.
Helping Children Cope with Separation and Loss
by Claudia Jewett Jarratt
Here is compassionate, step-by-step guidance for any concerned adult who wants to help a child talk about, cope with, and recover from a loss. In this revised edition of a bestselling work, Claudia Jewett Jarratt offers warm advice, specific techniques, and innovative ideas for helping children overcome the sadness, anger, and anxiety they feel during a difficult time. This is a book for parents and teachers, family and friends, counselors and other professionals – for anyone who cares about children and their well-being.
Imprisoned Fathers and their Children
by Gwyneth Boswell & Peter Wedge
More than 125,000 children in the UK alone are ‘sentenced’ to separation from their imprisoned parents, mainly fathers. Gwyneth Boswell and Peter Wedge draw on extensive research and experience to examine the effect this kind of separation can have on the emotional development of a child and on family relationships.
Loving through Bars: Children with Parents in Prison
by Cynthia Martone
In Loving Through Bars: Children with Parents in Prison, Cynthia Martone offers a searing and poignant view of children with imprisoned parents. Written by an experienced public school administrator, this examination of the instability and uncertainty that plague children of prisoners chronicles their attempts to cope and presents a possible starting place for societal response.
Relatives Raising Children: an Overview of Kinship Care
by Joseph Crumbley & Robert Little, editors Relatives Raising
Children provides professionals, agencies, institutions, communities, and organizations with the information they need to develop and provide service to kinship caregivers, kinship families, children, and parents. The authors discuss common clinical issues, suggest intervention strategies, examine the legal implications of kinship care, and offer policy and program recommendations.
War on the Family: Mothers in Prison and the Families They Leave Behind
by Renny Golden
In this timely book, renowned criminologist and activist Renny Golden sheds light on the women behind bars and the 350,000 children they leave behind. In exposing the fastest growing prison population – a direct result of Reagan’s War on Drugs – Golden sets up new framework for thinking about how to address the situation of mothers in prison, the risks and needs of their children and the implications of current judicial policies.
When Father Kills Mother: Guiding Children through Trauma and Grief
by Jean Harris-Hendriks
Children bereaved by the death of one parent at the hands of the other, almost always the father, in effect lose both parents, and are often forgotten in the midst of such dramatic situations. Reflecting the increased interest in child protection and child law systems, this second edition of When Father Kills Mother brings to public knowledge information about the effects of psychological trauma and bereavement on children. By combining knowledge about bereavement with that of post-traumatic stress disorder, the book remains informative and essential reading for all those involved in the field, both professionally and personally.
Working with Children and Families Separated by Incarceration a Handbook for Child Welfare Agencies
by Lois Wright
This handbook discusses the effects of parental incarceration, and the community services that should be available to support and preserve families. It also outlines child welfare practice needs and provides practical suggestions in areas such as child protection, temporary placement in out-of-home care, permanency planning, and family reunification.