Editors Alper and Howe present students, academics, professionals working in a variety of contexts, and general interest readers with a collection of academic articles and scholarly papers focused on the assessment of potential foster and adopting parents. The nine contributions that make up the main body of the text are devoted to understanding developmental trauma, the home study and assessment of applicants, understanding the qualities needed for parenting children with developmental trauma, understanding developmental trauma, parental attachments, and caregiving and a wide variety of other related subjects. Joanne Alper is a Director of Services at a voluntary adoption agency in the UK. David Howe is a retired faculty member of the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)