Includes treatment issues not covered elsewhere
This one-of-a-kind resource for mental health professionals in multiple settings is a comprehensive guide to treatment issues unique to children and families who have a relationship with the foster care system. With a focus on understanding how to negotiate the child welfare system, the book identifies and addresses mental health and behavioral issues specific to this population and provides proven, effective treatment interventions. It brings together in one place the myriad of current resources available to help such children and families, and addresses situations that span removal from the home to kin or foster care, to reunification, adoption, or other permanent family connections.
Broad in scope and depth, the text includes treatment issues not discussed elsewhere, such as how to cope with acting out in the foster home, how to draft a behavior modification plan, and how to maneuver through the court process. It delivers evidence-based guidelines for engaging and collaborating with multiple parties including other professionals, addressing crises, and assisting with transitions. The book covers assessment from the perspectives of the client, caseworker, and therapist, and discusses the use of medications, complications, and barriers to effective treatment. Strategies are also directed at such specific issues as sexual abuse, physical abuse, substance abuse, neglect, trauma, and attachment. Of special interest is a focus on the worldview of the parties involved in the child welfare system, including the child, the family, the birth parent, and the foster parent. Additionally, the text provides behavior modification plans that work and social skills training. Chapters weave case studies, ethical issues, multicultural concerns, and current research into a highly accessible guide.
Key Features:
- Provides core information about the child welfare system for mental health professionals who work with this population
- Includes treatments that really work
- Illustrates, through case studies, how to combat common issues for the child welfare population and their families
- Describes strategies for engagement, collaboration, addressing crises, and assisting with transitions
- Addresses specific treatment issues not covered elsewhere
Autorentext
Sheri Pickover, PhD, LPC, is an associate professor and counselor educator at the University of Detroit Mercy in Detroit, Michigan. She has trained clinical mental health, addiction, and school counselors for 11 years and has published several articles on effective clinical interventions. She also founded and acts as the clinical director of the University of Detroit Mercy Counseling Clinic, a training clinic providing free counseling to primarily court-mandated clients. She provides regular clinical supervision, and as former president of the Michigan Association for Counselor Educators and Supervisors, she co-developed and implemented a 30-hour clinical supervision training program.
She began her career in mental health providing crisis counseling at a runaway shelter. After obtaining her master's degree in psychological services, she worked as an in-home family therapist, specialized foster care worker/therapist, foster home licensor, foster care supervisor, clinical supervisor, and delinquency supervisor over the course of 15 years. She testified in court cases, drafted petitions for termination of parental rights, and drove children in foster care to their doctor appointments. Dr. Pickover lives in Southeastern Michigan and enjoys biking and baking brownies for her students and colleagues.
Klappentext
Includes treatment issues not covered elsewhere
This one-of-a-kind resource for mental health professionals in multiple settings is a comprehensive guide to treatment issues unique to children and families who have a relationship with the foster care system. With a focus on understanding how to negotiate the child welfare system, the book identifies and addresses mental health and behavioral issues specific to this population and provides proven, effective treatment interventions. It brings together in one place the myriad of current resources available to help such children and families, and addresses situations that span removal from the home to kin or foster care, to reunification, adoption, or other permanent family connections.
Broad in scope and depth, the text includes treatment issues not discussed elsewhere, such as how to cope with acting out in the foster home, how to draft a behavior modification plan, and how to maneuver through the court process. It delivers evidence-based guidelines for engaging and collaborating with multiple parties including other professionals, addressing crises, and assisting with transitions. The book covers assessment from the perspectives of the client, caseworker, and therapist, and discusses the use of medications, complications, and barriers to effective treatment. Strategies are also directed at such specific issues as sexual abuse, physical abuse, substance abuse, neglect, trauma, and attachment. Of special interest is a focus on the worldview of the parties involved in the child welfare system, including the child, the family, the birth parent, and the foster parent. Additionally, the text provides behavior modification plans that work and social skills training. Chapters weave case studies, ethical issues, multicultural concerns, and current research into a highly accessible guide.
Key Features:
- Provides core information about the child welfare system for mental health professionals who work with this population
- Includes treatments that really work
- Illustrates, through case studies, how to combat common issues for the child welfare population and their families
- Describes strategies for engagement, collaboration, addressing crises, and assisting with transitions
- Addresses specific treatment issues not covered elsewhere
Inhalt
Part One: The Child Welfare System
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Child Welfare System
Child Maltreatment
Physical Abuse
Sexual Abuse
Neglect
Ramifications of Child Maltreatment
How Children Enter the Foster Care System
Initial Abuse/Neglect Report
Initial Placement
The State and Court Systems
Child Welfare Agencies
Foster Care Case Management
Mental Health Treatment
Adoption
Residential Treatment
Supervised/Independent Living
References
Part Two: The Client World View
Chapter 2: The Child Perspective
Placement
First removal
Multiple Losses
Guilt, Blame and Shame
Pervasive Fearfulness
Treatment Issues Related to Placement
Adjusting to Child Welfare System
Educational Adjustment
Foster Care Placement Instability
Consequences of Placement Instability
Constant Sense of Danger
Long Term Foster Care
Relationships
Cultural Values
References
Chapter 3: The Adult Perspective
Treatment Issues Unique to Birth Parents
Issues that Led to Removal
Ambiguous Loss/Grief
Loss of Parental Control
Strengths
Treatment Issues Unique to Foster and Adoptive Parents
Attachment and Loss
Vicarious Trauma
Lack of Support and Training
Loss of Parental Control
Unrealistic Expectations
Foster Parent Strengths
Conclusion
References
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