The least detrimental alternative : a systematic guide to case planning and decision making for children in care /
When children are in distress or at risk in their homes, social service agencies may institute a number of measures. The most drastic entails removing such children from their homes and placing them in foster care. But placement often fails. Many children, some with severe and long-standing psycholo...
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Table of Contents:
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- PART ONE: The Historical Context of Foster Care and Adoption
- 1 The History of Adoption and Foster Care
- PART TWO: Background Issues
- 2 Issues of Attachment and Separation: Mourning and Loss in Children
- 3 The Child Who Could Not Mourn
- 4 Identity Formation and the Influence of Life History and Special Status of the Foster and Adopted Child
- 5 Assessing for Parenting Capacity
- PART THREE: Client-Related Issues
- 6 Guidelines for Removal and Placement of Children
- 7 Guidelines for the Clinical Management of the Sequelae of Separation8 Sharing a Child between Natural and Foster Parents
- 9 Visits of Foster Children with Their Natural Families
- PART FOUR: System-Related Issues
- 10 The Foster Care Service System
- 11 The Family Court System and the Quality of Foster Care
- 12 'Permanency Planning'
- 13 Potential Contributions of Mental Health Consultants within the Child Welfare System
- 14 The Role of Psychotherapy and Residential Treatment within the Child Welfare System
- 15 Four Innovative Models of Foster Care
- PART FIVE: Issues Related to Sexual Abuse within the Foster Care System16 Developmental, Clinical, and Legal Implications of Children's Testimony
- PART SIX: Adoption as an Alternative to Long-Term Foster Care
- 17 Factors Related to Success or Failure in Adoption [with Margaret Snowden]
- 18 Placing the Older Child on Adoption [with Margaret Snowden]
- PART SEVEN: Summary and Review
- 19 Summary and Review: The Preventive Use of Foster Care
- References
- Index
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