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NEWS AND EVENTS

ASART professionals'
brochure goes live!
ASART's Children and Families Therapeutic and Training Services brochure is now available on the publications page. The brochure, a resource for Local Authorities, Schools and Other Organisations outlines the services offered by ASART associates like: comprehensive family assessments; parent sessions; family sessions; intensive family therapeutic programmes and school visits.
ASART therapists are experienced adoption support professionals and trainers and can be trusted by Local Authorities and others because we are: Ofsted registered; have a good Ofsted rating; offer low and negotiable fees and can tailor make our work onsite and/or in local settings. Therapists offer evening and weekend sessions.

ASART Associate, Maggie Rogers, has taken on the role of Interim Head of Training at Post Adoption Centre (PAC) from 24th May 2011. Maggie is passionate about providing first class, cutting edge training for all parties to adoption.

Elizabeth Mulhern, ASART Associate, is expanding her private practice and has become an affiliate of Parents and Children Together (PACT). Elizabeth has also applied to become a sessional worker at PAC.

Three ASART Associates: Esther Ina-Egbe, Kunu Gordon and Maggie Rogers have become parent advisors for the Pilot of the 10 session parenting programme: 'Enhancing Adoptive Parenting'. This has involved them going into the homes of adoptive parents to teach them 10 sets of parenting strategies over 10 weeks. The programme, and the research project evaluating it, is the brain child of Professor Alan Rushton, well-known adoption academic and researcher.

WANTED! ASART Affiliate in Kent ASART has been approached by potential clients searching for registered Adoption Counsellors. Through ASART's affiliate scheme there is an opportunity for a counsellor working in the Kent region. For more information, contact Kunu Gordon on kunugordon@yahoo.co.uk..

Publications

ASART professionals' brochure [PDF 785KB]
ASART's Children and Families Therapeutic and Training Services brochure , July 2011

Racial Identity [PDF 68KB]
ASART Information and Education leaflet , March 2011

The challenges of working with adoption [PDF 122KB]
by Maggie Rogers, The Psychotherapist, Issues 44, Spring 2010
As editor of this special issue, Maggie Rogers highlights the implications of the Adoption and Children's Act for psychotherapists and counsellors and looks at the challenges of working with all parties to adoption.

The route to becoming an adoption support agency [PDF 81KB]
by Kunu Gordon, The Psychotherapist, Issues 44, Spring 2010
Kunu Gordon explains how she and a small group of other counsellors worked together towards registration.

When adopted adults are shadowed by disrupted attachments [PDF 151KB]
by Maeja Raicar, The Psychotherapist, Issues 44, Spring 2010
For Maeja Raicar, the therapeutic journey of the 'adopted self' is one of mourning the reality of early and ongoing family losses. Only then can the adoptee start to heal their hurt and dependent Child Self and enable their maturing Adult Self to take charge of their life in a more integrated way.

Developing a positive racial identity – challenges for psychotherapists working with black and
mixed race adopted adults [PDF 168KB]
by Esther Ina-Egbe, The Psychotherapist, Issues 44, Spring 2010
In this article, Esther Ina-Egbe argues that psychotherapists need to explore the repetitions and lack of mirroring that may be present in the therapeutic relationship.

'Going for it': overcoming passivity [PDF 198KB]
by Eve Menezes Cunningham, The Psychotherapist, Issues 44, Spring 2010
Beverly Morris explains to Eve Menezes Cunningham how movement work with adoptees may help them reach out. Many personal challenges they experience, she says, can be understood in neurological developmental terms.

Spring 2010 Book Reviews [PDF 198KB]
The Psychotherapist, Issues 44, Spring 2010