Sarah Naish is an English therapeutic parenting expert, former social worker, and author. She is best known for her books But He Looks So Normal! A Bad-Tempered Parenting Guide for Foster Parents and Adopters, The A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting: Strategies and Solutions and Therapeutic Parenting in a Nutshell.
Naish became a foster carer in 1987, which inspired her to qualify as a social worker in 1991. [1] [2] She developed a therapeutic parenting approach, which she has taught to other foster carers and adoptive parents, and speaks internationally at conferences and on child trauma. [1] [2]
Naish is also the CEO of the National Association of Therapeutic Parents and has adopted five children. [3] [4] [5] With the Hadley Centre for Adoption and Foster Care Studies at the University of Bristol, Naish commissioned the first comprehensive research into compassion fatigue in foster care in the UK. [2] This led to publication of the report "No One Told Us It Would Be like This: Compassion Fatigue and Foster Care" in November 2016. [6]
Naise has published books aimed at foster carers and parents including The A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting: Strategies and Solutions, The Essential Guide to Kinship Care: Trauma-Informed, Practical Help for You and Your Family and Therapeutic Parenting in a Nutshell. [2] [7] Her book But He Looks So Normal! A Bad-Tempered Parenting Guide for Foster Parents and Adopters is being adapted for Sky TV by Elaine Collins's Tod Productions, with a script by Thomas Eccleshare and directed by Peter Capaldi. [8] [9]
Naish has also written books aimed at children, such as The Very Wobbly Christmas: A story to help children who feel anxious about Christmas, coauthored with Rosie Jefferies. [10]