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This charming and deeply practical guide describes a wide range of play techniques to be used by social workers and carers when doing direct work with fostered and adopted children. This imaginative variety of techniques are simple to carry out, creative and will be fun for children and workers. They will help children to talk about their feelings, fears and hopes, whether this is about moving placement, their life story, or many other scenarios. Using case examples, the guide shows how workers can become more skilled at observing and encouraging attachment behaviour, more effective in interpreting and communicating assessment findings to adoptive parents, and better able to help carers understand and use these findings in their day-to-day parenting.