Suggested Reading

  • Bowlby J (1980) Attachment and Loss, Vol 3: Loss, sadness and depression. New York: Basic Books. 
  • Burnell A, Castell K and Cousins G (2009) Planning transitions for children moving to permanent placement: what do you do after you say hello? Family Futures Practice Paper.
  • Byrne S (2000) Linking and Introductions: Helping children join adoptive families. London: BAAF.
  • Dozier M (2007) Caregiver commitment in foster care. In: Oppenheim D and Goldsmith DF (eds) Attachment Theory in Clinical Work with Children: Bridging the gap between research and practice. New York: Guilford Press.
  • Emanuel L (2006) The contribution of organisational dynamics to the triple deprivation of looked after children. In: Kenrick J, Tollemache L and Lindsey C (eds) Creating New Families: Therapeutic approaches to fostering, adoption and kinship care. London: Karnac Books.
  • Fahlberg V (1994) A Child’s Journey through Placement. London: BAAF.
  • Fahlberg V online interview on the Jessica Kingsley Blog, Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2012 - Supporting children on their journey through home placement to adulthood – An Interview with Dr. Vera Fahlberg
  • Fratter J (1996) Adoption with Contact: Implications for theory and practice. London: BAAF.
  • Freud S (1917) Mourning and melancholia. In: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XIV (1914–1916).
  • Hindle D and Shulman G (2008) ‘Final Thoughts’, in The Emotional Experience of Adoption: A psychoanalytic perspective. London: Routledge.
  • Kenrick J (2009) Concurrent planning: a retrospective study of the continuities and discontinuities ofcare, and their impact on the development of infants and young children placed for adoption by the Coram Concurrent Planning Project. Adoption & Fostering 33(4): 5–18.
  • Lanyado M (2003) The emotional tasks of moving from fostering to adoption: transitions, attachment,separation and loss. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 18(3): 337–349.
  • Menzies Lyth I (1988) Containing Anxiety in Institutions: Selected essays. London: Free Association Books.
  • Miller, L (2008) Understanding an adopted child: a child psychotherapist's perspective. In Hindle, D and Shulman, G (eds)  The Emotional Experience of Adoption, ibid
  • Neil E (2009) Post-adoption contact and openness in adoptive parents’ minds: consequences for chidren’s development. British Journal of Social Work 39(1): 5–23.
  • Pemberton, C (2012) ‘Leaving foster care can be traumatic for adopted children – ministers must recognise this’ in Community Care blog 
  • Robertson J and Robertson J (1977) The psychological parent. Adoption & Fostering 87(1): 19–22. Robertson J and Robertson J (1989). A delayed infant adoption, in Separation and the Very Young. London: Free Association Books.
  • Rutter M (1971) Parent-child separation: psychological effects on the children. Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry 12(4): 233–260.
  • Sinclair I, Baker C, Wilson K and Gibbs I (2005) Foster Children: Where they go and how they get on. London: Jessica Kingsley.
  • Wakelyn J (2011) Therapeutic observation of an infant in foster care. Journal of Child Psychotherapy 37: 280–310.
  • Winnicott, C (2004) ‘Face to Face with Children’ in Working with children, London: Karnac
  • Winnicott, D (1986) Home is where we start from: essays by a psychoanalyst, New York: W W Norton & Company, p22