Description: Documenting experiences representative of all those involved in the adoption process - adoptee, adoptive and birth parent and professional, and informed by psychoanalytic and social and cultural theory perspectives, this important addition to the literature on adoption highlights a new dimension in social policy and personal accounts in this field.
Brief description: Ilan Katz is Head of the NSPCC Practice Development Unit. His main research interests are child protection, identity and the sociology of childhood.
Review Quotes: The Dynamics of Adoption offers new insights to those of us who sometimes wonder why we do what we do and how we might do it better. As is often the case, the most challenging and searching questions come from those people personally involved with adoption. Social work managers, policy makers and politicians would do well to listen.--Fostering & Adoption