The International Journal of Birth and Parent Education is a quarterly publication focusing on policy, research and best practice in parent support and education from pregnancy to two.

We know that pregnancy and the first years of parenting are ‘a teachable moment’ when mothers and fathers are exceptionally open to making changes in their lives. As a reader of the IJBPE, you are someone who wants to make a difference to children’s lives by using your knowledge and skills to educate and support mothers and fathers as they make the transition to parenthood.


Inside the IJBPE, you will find:

• What leading academics across the world are saying about parent education in the very early years
• How health and social care practitioners are translating new knowledge into best practice
• What the policy makers are saying about systems to support and educate new parents and those working with them

The IJBPE is essentially a Journal for professionals who are out there in the community, or who are planning a career working with mothers and fathers in the earliest years of their children’s lives. At the end of each year, the Journal’s 4 issues will have updated you on the latest thinking and the very best practice in parent education and support. You will be inspired to continue to support new mothers and fathers to the best of your ability, in the knowledge that it is parents who shape their children’s futures.

These articles are free for you to browse. They illustrate some of the topics that the Journal covers and the way in which it covers them. We hope you find them interesting, informative and accessible.

 What's in the  Winter Issue - Volume 5 Issue 2
Focus on fostering and adoption

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EDITORIAL

Supporting adoptive parents to provide a forever home

Mary Nolan, Editor-in-Chief

GUEST Editorials


A guide to attachment for foster carers

John Timpson, CBE, Chairman Timpson Limited

Foster care: The importance of commitment

Matt Forde, Head of Service, National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Scotland

Articles

Early education as an intervention for children looked after

Sandra Mathers, Senior Researcher, University of Oxford, UK
Rebecca Tracz, Research Assistant, University of Oxford, UK

Art and Music Therapy with adopted children under five

Jasmine Chin, Clinical Psychologist & Clinical Lead, Parenting and Creative Therapies Service, Coram, London, UK

Rosie Hayes, Music Therapist, Parenting and Creative Therapies Service, Coram, London, UK

Lucy Orchard, Art Psychotherapist, Parenting and Creative Therapies Service, Coram, London, UK

Cerrita Smith, Music Therapist, Parenting  and 
Creative Therapies Service, Coram, London, UK
Nicky Sutton, Art Psychotherapist, Parenting and Creative Therapies Service, Coram, London, UK

Katherine Walters, Senior Music Therapist, Parenting and Creative Therapies Service, Coram, London, UK

Early placement therapy: Supporting adoptive parents in creating a secure attachment relationship with their young child

Anna C. Kelley, Psychology Postdoctoral Fellow, Tulane University, USA

Devi Miron Murphy, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Tulane School of Medicine, USA

Good practice in parent and child fostering

Nikki Luke, Rees Centre for Research in Fostering and Education, University of Oxford, UK

Paul Adams, CoramBAAF (British Agency for Adoption and Fostering)
The attachment-related benefits of animal companions in foster care
Sam Carr, Department of Education, University of Bath, UK

PARENT EDUCATION PROGRAMME

Implementing Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up with foster parents

Stevie S. Schein, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Delaware, USA

Amanda H. Costello, Clinical Scientist, University of Delaware, USA

Caroline K.P. Roben, Assistant Professor, University of Delaware, USA

Mary Dozier, Amy E. du Pont Chair of Child Development, University of Delaware, USA

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