Foster parenting step-by-step : how to nurture the traumatized child and overcome conflict /: how to nurture the traumatized child and overcome conflict. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kalyani Gopal.
• Other Names: Gopal, Kalyani
• Contents: Foster Parenting Step-by-Step; Foreword; Quotes from Foster Children; Preface; Introduction; The foster care system; Managing challenging behaviors; Displacement trauma and coping mechanisms; Foster parents; Note to the reader; Chapter 1: The Motivational Stage: First Things First! Know What to Expect; The foster parent experience; Reasons why children enter foster care; Motives for becoming a foster parent; Qualities of successful foster parents; Importance of placement stability in a foster home; The jargon of the foster care experience: what do these terms mean? Stages of development of foster parentingRole of cultural values in placement success; Kinship versus non-kinship foster parenting; Goals of foster parenting; Chapter 2; The Planning Stage; Chapter 2: The Planning Stage: About Your Family: Are You Prepared?; Size of home; Your mental health; Your children's mental health; How will a foster child relate to me or my children?; Ages and genders of foster children; Choosing special needs children; Buying clothes, shoes, room décor, and school supplies; Rules of the home; Introduction to relatives. Chapter 3: The Welcoming Stage: Getting to Know Your Foster ChildFamily history; Questions you can ask about your foster child; What you may not be told about your foster child; Behaviors commonly seen in foster children; To work or not to work?; Schools; Chapter 4: The Displacement Trauma Stage: Understanding Your Foster Child; Chapter 5: The Adapting Stage: Attachment and Protecting Your Foster Child; Adapting to infants (0-5 years); Adapting to older children and adolescents (6-16 years); Chapter 6: The Educational Stage: Parenting Issues and Much More; Intra-family coping issues. School-oriented issuesMental health issues; Family issues; Personal issues; Relationship issues; Agency-related issues; Chapter 7: The Empowering Stage: Successful Evidence-Based Strategies; Basic needs of all children; Steps in empowering foster parents; Chapter 8: The Letting Go/Adopting Stage: Transitioning Into Own Home/Independent Living; Pre-adoptive home/long-term placement; Effects of transitioning back to the biological home; Transitioning into independent living skills programs; Maintaining a collaborative relationship with an independent teen/young adult. Ways you can help with the transitionResources and Useful Addresses; Selected Bibliography; About the Author; Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306.874; Advice On Parenting; Foster parents; Foster children; Parenting; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Abuse -- Child Abuse; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Adoption & Fostering; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Parenting -- General; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Parenting -- Parent & Adult Child; Foster children; Foster parents; Parenting; Adoption; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857007513; 0857007513
• Related ISBNs: 9781849059374; 1849059373
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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