Team Parenting for Children in Foster Care

How can professionals work together with foster carers to create stable and therapeutic foster placements? Team Parenting Children in Foster Care describes a unique model of supporting children in care which involves foster carers and professionals working together in the best interests of the child. This book lays out the key principles of Team Parenting - to meet the needs of troubled young people in an integrated way and incorporate therapy within a wider team of social workers, therapists, psychologists and foster carers - as well as the theory behind it and interventions used. It details how the approach contributes to the recovery of looked after children and each chapter includes examples that illustrates how Team Parenting works in practice. Team Parenting in Foster Care includes ideas for systems and individual practice that will inform and improve foster carers' and professionals' work in any setting.

Jeanette Caw used to be the Head of Therapy for Core Assets. She now works for Rethink Mental Illness as their Associate Director of Psychological Therapies and has a small private practice as a therapist. She is a qualified social worker and clinical supervisor, as well as fully qualified and accredited psychotherapist with training in Systemic Practice and management training.

Judy Sebba is the Director of the Rees Centre for Research in Fostering and Education - a collaboration between the University of Oxford Department of Education and the Core Assets Group.

Robbie Gilligan is Professor of Social Work and Social Policy at Trinity College Dublin and associate director of the Children's Research Centre. He has written extensively on child care and foster care.