The Least Detrimental Alternative : : A Systematic Guide to Case Planning and Decision Making for Children in Care /

The Least Detrimental Alternative : : A Systematic Guide to Case Planning and Decision Making for Children in Care / / Paul Steinhauer.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
VerfasserIn:
Steinhauer, Paul,
MitwirkendeR:
Caplan, Gerald,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1992
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (426 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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 Separation
  • 8. 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 System
  • 16. 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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