Natural Parents and Foster Parents

Synopsis: What does it mean for parents to have their children compulsorily removed from their care? How do foster parents feel about providing a home for someone else’s children? How well do they relate to the natural parents? And how do they handle their attachment to the children while at the same time preparing them for return to their own family? What does it mean for children to be removed from a foster family for an indeterminate period? The social worker has to handle and reconcile needs of the parents (natural and foster) and children and develop a programme that takes into account these needs. Natural parents, foster parents and children discuss foster care from their own point of view and their social worker discusses her role in relation to them.
Series: Developing Skills in Helping Relationships, Series
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.
Year of production: 1984
Availability: Hire
Sale; 1996 hire: £10.00 (+VAT +p&p) 1996 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)
Uses: Social workers in child care and those involved in foster care or in the psychology of loss and separation.
Subjects: Social welfare
Keywords: child care; foster care

Name: Concord Media
Email: sales@concordmedia.org.uk
Web: http://www.concordmedia.org.uk/ External site opens in new window
Phone: 01473 726 012
Address: Rosehill Centre
22 Hines Road
Ipswich
IP3 9BG
Notes: A long-established, not-for-profit organisation with a large collection DVDs, specialising in the sectors of general and mental health, child care, race relations, war and peace, addictions, the third world, ecology, civil rights, personal relationships, educational issues, and social work training. Concord also handles titles made for the Graves Medical Audio-visual Library. Sale on DVD. Formerly known as Concord Video and Film Council. In 2014 Concord began to offer selected films as Video on Demand, via Vimeo.

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