Preface | p. vii |
About the Authors | p. xi |
The Culture and Environment of Foster Care | |
Introduction: The Culture and Environment of Foster Care | p. 1 |
An Ecosystemic Approach to Foster Care | p. 17 |
Cultural Issues: Diversity and Child Welfare | p. 47 |
The Perspective of the Consumer: Foster Children Tell Us What They Need | p. 63 |
Ambiguous Loss: A Key Component of Foster Care | p. 83 |
Family Therapy Approaches | |
The Case for Relational Therapy with Young Children in Foster Care | p. 105 |
Parent-Child Therapy for Traumatized Young Children in Foster Care | p. 123 |
Providing Developmentally Appropriate Family Therapy | p. 153 |
An Integrative Approach Involving the Biological and Foster Family Systems | p. 181 |
Kinship Placements: An Integrative Approach | p. 227 |
Creative Ways to Strengthen Family Bonds | p. 251 |
Intervening with Foster Infants' Foster Parents: Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up | p. 269 |
Supporting the Work of Foster Parents | p. 293 |
"It Isn't Right!" The Need to Redress Experiences of Injustice in Child Abuse and Neglect | p. 307 |
Important "Other" Issues | |
"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 | p. 331 |
Combating a Family Culture of Violence | p. 363 |
"We're in It Together" Family Therapy Where Substance Abuse Is a Problem | p. 377 |
Teaching Developmentally Appropriate Parenting | p. 405 |
"Ready or Not, Here I Come!" Equipping Families for Transitions | p. 427 |
"But I Don't Trust You" Recognizing and Dealing with Parents' History of Trauma: The Story of Amy | p. 451 |
When the Helper Becomes Traumatized: Taking Care of You | p. 469 |
Index | p. 485 |
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