Treating Children in Out-of-Home Placements

by Rosen; Marvin

• ISBN13: 9780789001634
• ISBN10: 0789001632
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-07-14
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

If you're in the market for a detailed, pragmatic knowledge base for dealing with discipline, relationships with regulatory and funding agencies, and staff training, you'll find all you need and more in Treating Children in Out-of-Home Placements. This unique and insightful volume gives you the information you need to successfully manage quality assessment and improvement in out-of-home placements, especially in a managed care environment. Treating Children in Out-of-Home Placements reviews for you the field of residential treatment of adolescents in the child welfare system. With this crucial knowledge base, you'll be equipped to face and surmount the challenges that accompany the provision of services to behaviorally disturbed youngsters. Some of the areas you'll become fluent in are: approaches to child welfare for children at risk models of treatment family counseling diagnostic criteria for conduct and behavior disorders psychotropic medication training staff to become agents of change For over 150 years, we've seen the aftershocks of a problematic system for treating children placed in the custody of child welfare. Through treating Children in Out-of-Home Placements, you can understand the problems of implementing and administering such a program. You will want to open this book and place yourself and your staff members on the road to a more ideal plan of care for children placed in custody.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi	(2)
Howard Polsky
Preface	xiii
Chapter 1. Child Saving in America	1	(18)
Orphanages	5	(3)
Families	8	(2)
Residential Programs	10	(7)
Criticism	17	(2)
Chapter 2. Foster Care	19	(18)
Characteristics and Needs of Foster Children	21	(1)
Characteristics and Needs of Foster Families	22	(6)
Effectiveness of Foster Care	28	(3)
System Needs	31	(1)
Foster Kids Don't Say "Thank You"	32	(3)
Foster Care Agencies	35	(2)
Chapter 3. Diagnosing Behavioral and Emotional Disorders	37	(10)
Depression and Suicide	41	(1)
Ego Disturbance	42	(1)
Attachment and Attachment Disorders	43	(1)
Dual Diagnosis	43	(2)
Family Assessment	45	(2)
Chapter 4. The Concept of the "Moral Imbecile"	47	(14)
Origins of Genetic Concept	48	(7)
Recognition of Other Determinants	55	(2)
The New Genetics	57	(4)
Chapter 5. Agents of Change	61	(10)
The Direct Care Position	62	(2)
Training	64	(4)
New Concepts	68	(3)
Chapter 6. Adolescence, Violence, and Abuse	71	(10)
Adolescent Psychopathology: A Developmental Perspective	72	(2)
Effects of Violence	74	(2)
Effects of Abuse	76	(2)
Treatment	78	(3)
Chapter 7. Treating Childhood Emotional Disorders	81	(10)
Early Approaches	82	(2)
Contemporary Approaches	84	(3)
Residential Treatment	87	(1)
Effectiveness of Treatment Models	88	(3)
Chapter 8. A Cognitive Therapy Approach	91	(12)
Treatment Issues	94	(2)
Cognitive Therapy	96	(7)
Chapter 9. Teaching Values	103	(10)
The Relevance of Values	104	(3)
Developmental Stages	107	(1)
Two Values for Study	108	(1)
Moral Training	109	(4)
Chapter 10. Accessing Families	113	(10)
Defining Counseling	113	(3)
Structuring a Counseling Relationship	116	(3)
Characteristics of Families	119	(4)
Chapter 11. Giving Medications	123	(10)
Background	124	(1)
Biological Bases of Behavior	125	(2)
Classes of Medications	127	(1)
Criticism	128	(2)
Effectiveness of Psychotropics with Children	130	(3)
Chapter 12. Building for the Future--Wanted: A Blueprint for Change	133	(28)
Recapitulation	134	(7)
Defining Treatment	141	(5)
The Need for a Conceptual Model	146	(6)
A Treatment Model	152	(9)
Epilogue	161	(2)
Appendix	163	(14)
Bibliography	177	(12)
Index	189