Ebook: Assessing adoptive parents, foster carers and kinship carers: improving analysis and understanding of parenting capacity

Introduction / Joanne Alper, Adoptionplus -- Why are you frightened of being parented? : understanding developmental trauma / Kim S. Golding, Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust -- The home study and assessment of applicants : research evidence / Julie Selwyn, University of Bristol -- Adoptionplus : a new agency, a new approach / Joanne Alper, Adoptionplus -- Parenting well and staying well : understanding the qualities needed for parenting children with developmental trauma / Kim S. Golding and Ben Gurney-Smith, Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust and Adoptionplus -- Understanding developmental trauma, parental attachments, caregiving and pace / Dan Hughes, Quittie GlenCenter for Mental Health -- The parenting brain / John Baylin, Norman Broudy MD & Associates -- Assessing potential kinship placements / Joanne Alper and Ailsa Edwards, Adoptionplus and Children in Need -- Reflective functioning and parenting / John Baylin, Norman Broudy MD & Associates -- Conclusion / David Howe, University of East Anglia.