When Ingrid Steel was first put into an orphanage she did not even know her real name. Nor would anyone tell her who her parents were. After years of bullying, deprivation and punishment, Ingrid made a secret pilgrimage to discover her real identity. Little Girl Lost is the first part of Ingrid Steel's shocking, heart-rending life story.
Ryan's body frame was on the smaller side and he was taller than I. He had short jet-black hair which was parted down the middle and neatly combed back. His face lit up when he smiled and I found him very attractive.
A memoir covering Louise Allen's abusive childhood in a foster home, how she survived and how she hopes to right old wrongs now by fostering children herself and campaigning for the improvement of foster care services.
Foster mother Louise Allen tells the story of the six-year-old child brought to her home with symptoms of fetal alcohol syndrome.
"Stella is just like a tiny bird. This is my first impression of her. A quiet little sparrow of a girl." In her brand new series 'Thrown Away Children', Louise Allen shares the harrowing stories she is exposed to as a foster mother.
Through monitoring for domestic violence and reframing of cases domestic violence moved from the periphery to the centre of the team's work in child abuse prevention and child protection.The authors found that the focus on domestic violence ...
Bringing together sensory integration and a neurodevelopmental understanding of the impact of trauma on the developing brain, this book shows how parents can help their children to improve their sensory processing and become more physically ...
Up Against a Wall: Coping with Becoming a Teen when You Have Been Maltreated as a Child : Substance Use...
From bestselling author Karen McQuestion comes a moving novel about broken hearts...and what it takes to put them back together again.
Studies comparing child-abusive and nonabusive parents on psychological and behaviourial dimensions are reviewed to determine relevant distinctions between these populations.
The document proposes a framework that identifies key surveillance factors at each level of population health (individual, family, community, & social).