Building a Home Within

by Heineman, Toni Vaughn; Ehrensaft, Diane

• ISBN13: 9781557668394
• ISBN10: 1557668396
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-01
• Publisher: Brookes Pub

Summary

All children need stable, lasting relationships with caring adults to ensure their healthy emotional, cognitive, and social development. But for children and adolescents in foster care, these essential relationships are often absent. This book presents a proven solution based on over 10 years of groundbreaking work by the Children's Psychotherapy Project (CPP): When young people work with the same therapist for as long as they need to, they'll make better progress toward developing strong, healthy relationships and hope for the future. More than a dozen experts from the CPP give psychologists, social workers, counselors, and program administrators a complete, research-supported introduction to this successful "one child, one therapist, for as long as it takes" model as they share their triumphs and challenges. Through the lessons these therapists learned as they donated their time to weekly psychotherapy sessions, readers will gain new insight on how to build positive

Table of Contents

About the Editors	ix
Contributors	xi
Foreword	xiii
Anne Alvarez
Acknowledgments	xvii
More About A Home Within	xxi
Section I Introduction	1	(20)
The Children's Psychotherapy Project: One Child. One Therapist. For as Long as it Takes.	3	(18)
Toni Vaughn Heineman
Section II Holding the Child, Knowing the System: Theories for Bridging Internal and External Worlds	21	(72)
Walking Through Walls: The Mind of a Foster Child	23	(20)
Peter G.M. Carnochan
In Search of the Fuzzy Green Pillow: Fragmented Selves, Fragmented Institutions	43	(32)
Rebecca B. Weston
Seeing and Thinking: Bringing Theory to Practice	75	(18)
Julie Stone
Section III Therapists at Work: The Children's Psychotherapy Project in Practice	93	(110)
Doctor Forever: Acute Loss in the Context of Chronic Loss	95	(16)
Norman Zukowsky
Beyond the 50-Minute Hour: A Continuum of Care for a Foster Child	111	(20)
Martha P. Harris
Falling Through the Cracks: The Complications of Reunification for an Adolescent in Foster Care	131	(20)
Christopher Bonovitz
Sunset in December: Working with Young Adults in Foster Care	151	(24)
Isabelle Reiniger
Many Parents, One Child: Working with the Family Matrix	175	(16)
Diane Ehrensaft
Beyond the Comfortable Edge: The Experience of Being a Therapist for Foster Children	191	(12)
Richard Ruth
Section IV Clinical Moments: Case Studies for Exploration and Discussion	203	(34)
Case Study Infant-Parent Psychotherapy	205	(8)
Barbara Reed McCarroll
Case Study A Boy Referred for Alleged Sexual Perpetration	213	(8)
Thetis Rachel Cromie
Case Study Therapy in the Process of Reunification	221	(4)
Susan R. Bernstein
Case Study Resiliency in the Context of Foster Care	225	(6)
Michael LoGuidice
Case Study Parents Bonding with Nonbiological Children	231	(6)
Barbara Waterman
Epilogue	237	(4)
Toni Vaughn Heineman
Diane Ehrensaft
Index	241