Social Networking and Contact: How Social Workers Can Help Adoptive Families

by Eileen Fursland

Paperback, 2010

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This book, published by the British Association for Adoption & Fostering (BAAF), examines the way internet, social networking and other technologies are changing the landscape of adoption contact, search and reunion. It is the first UK guide to explore the many pressing questions and concerns facing social workers: What do practitioners need to know about adoption in the Facebook age? How can they be equipped for new challenges? What do social workers need to know about protecting privacy and security so that they can give advice to young people and their families? How can social workers manage the complex situations that arise from unauthorized and unmediated contact? What advice and support is available?

The guide demystifies the technology behind social networking sites, provides a practical explanation of how they work and tackles key issues such as internet safety, privacy and identity protection. It examines the challenges faced by all parties involved in contact and looks at balancing the adopted child's curiosity and need to know with the adoptive family's fears and concerns around security and disruption. Social networking and contact provides a significant amount of information, raises important questions and offers essential advice. Case studies and quotations enable others' experiences to be shared, and reveal the potential and very significant risks that some people have experienced. Although it does not provide any easy answers, the guide does include hard-won insights from adoption workers and adoptive parents who have had to face up to the impact of Facebook.

Publication

British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) (2010), 114 pages

ISBN

1905664974 / 9781905664979

Physical description

114 p.; 8.27 inches

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2 copies
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