Foster care therapist handbook : relational approaches to the children and their families - Lee, Robert E., 1943-; Whiting, Jason B. (Arlington, VA : Child Welfare League of America Press, 2008)
Introduction : the culture and environment of foster care / Robert E. Lee and Jason B. Whiting -- An ecosystemic approach to foster care / Robert E. Lee -- Cultural issues : diversity and child welfare / Edgar Tyson ... [et al.] -- The perspective of the consumer : foster children tell us what they need / Jason B. Whiting and John Seita -- Ambiguous loss : a key component of foster care / Robert E. Lee and Jason B. Whiting -- The case for relational therapy with young children in foster care / Robert E. Lee and Ann M. Stacks -- Parent-child therapy for traumatized young children in foster care / Douglas Davies -- Providing developmentally appropriate family therapy / Lenore M. McWey and Patricia D. Donovan -- An integrative approach involving the biological and foster family systems / Kim Sumner-Mayer -- Kinship placements : an integrative approach / Patricia McKinsey Crittenden and Steve Farnfield -- Creative ways to strengthen family bonds / Larry Barlow and Sandra M. Barlow -- Intervening with foster infants' foster parents : attachment and biobehavioral catch-up / Erin Lewis ... [et al.] -- Supporting the work of foster parents / Paul T. Huber and Jason B. Whiting -- "It isn't right!" : the need to redress experiences of injustice in child abuse and neglect / Terry D. Hargrave, Robert Brammer, and Laura McDuff -- "I want this child out of here now!" how to deal with sexualized acting out in the foster environment: a "SMART" approach to assessment and treatment / Alice Nadelman and Deborah D. Castaldo -- Combating a family culture of violence / John Seita -- "We're in it together" : family therapy where substance abuse is a problem / John K. Mooradian -- Teaching developmentally appropriate parenting / Ann M. Stacks -- "Ready or not, here I come!" : equipping families for transitions / J. Matthew Orr and Rachel Brown -- "But I don't trust you" : recognizing and dealing with parents' history of trauma : the story of Amy / Kathleen Burns Jager -- When the helper becomes traumatized : taking care of you / Tracy Woodward-Meyers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Foster home care -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Foster parents -- United States; Foster children -- United States