Home Studies
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Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and Communities
Ruby K. Payne PhD, Philip E. Devol, & Terie Dreussi Smith
Bridges Out of Poverty is a unique and powerful tool designed specifically for social, health, and legal services professionals. Based in part on Dr. Ruby K. Payne's myth shattering A Framework for Understanding Poverty, Bridges reaches out to the millions of service providers and businesses whose daily work connects them with the lives of people in poverty. In a highly readable format you'll find case studies, detailed analysis, helpful charts and exercises, and specific solutions you and your organization can implement right now to: Redesign programs to better serve people you work with, build skill sets for management to help guide employees, upgrade training for front-line staff like receptionists, case workers, and managers; Improve treatment outcomes in health care and behavioral health care; Increase the likelihood of moving from welfare to work. If your business, agency, or organization works with people from poverty, only a deeper understanding of their challenges-and strengths-will help you partner with them to create opportunities for success.
Professionals, Home Studies, Need for Connections, Transitions Considerations
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Strategies for Working With Adult Adolescents
Debbie Riley & Sara Eggleston
Led by adoption specialists with more than 25 years of providing clinical services to adolescents, this session will help social workers, mental health professionals, and child welfare workers understand the interwoven complexities of adoption and adolescence. Participants will learn an integrated and comprehensive therapeutic model for treatment. Participants will learn to understand how their struggle for identity often causes their ship to sail off course, resulting in school failure, drug or alcohol abuse, sexual promiscuity, fractured family relations, strained peer relationships, and low self esteem.
Professionals, Adoption Issues, Home Studies, Transitions Considerations
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Social Work With Children
Florence Lieberman, DSW
An indispensable text for providing social workers and related mental health professionals with the essential knowledge required for the proper understanding and care of children. Viewing the maturation process from a personal, familial and major developmental stages of childhood from infancy to adolescence. The text examines the prevalent emotional, learning and somatic disorders of childhood while presenting a full range of the most effective methods of treatment.
Professionals, Adoption Issues, Home Studies, Transitions Considerations
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Safety First: Dealing With the Daily Challenges of Child Welfare Summary
Annie E. Casey Foundation
This publication is a Summary of Safety First Dealing With the Daily Challenges of Child Welfare. This overview talks about what should be considered for the safety of children by child welfare's frontline workers.
Professionals, Home Studies, Need for Connections
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Safety First: Dealing With the Daily Challenges of Child Welfare
Annie E. Casey Foundation
This publication is part of the Family to Family Tools for Rebuilding Foster Care, Part One, Building Support for Child Welfare's Frontline Workers. The focus of this paper is to discuss tools, skills, issues and dilemmas related to safety for everyone concerned with helping families in their homes and neighborhoods.
Professionals, Home Studies, Need for Connections
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Permanency Meeting, The: Slaying Invisible Dragons
Boller & Frank
Presenters discuss and demonstrate how the Jewish Children's Bureau of Chicago has effectively used permanency meetings to help foster parents overcome challenges and make sound decisions about permanency for children in their care.
Professionals, Adoption Issues, Home Studies, Transitions Considerations
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Medical Issues for Children Adopted Internationally
Dana Johnson & Seth Pollack
This session will describe the largest medical follow-up study of international adoptees in the U.S. conducted by the Minnesota Adoption Project. How healthy is healthy? The second speaker will discuss the Wisconsin follow-up project on Russian and Ukrainian adoptees, and address the following questions: What are the impacts of early brain development on school performance? Will we see the effects of orphanage life years later?
General Adoption, International Adoption, Professionals, Adoption Issues, Home Studies
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Career Counseling: Applied Concepts of Life Planning
Vernon G. Zunker
This current and comprehensive text is designed to give you a solid foundation in career development principles and concepts. Vernon Zunker translates theoretical principles into practical counseling objectives, programs, and strategies, and also covers the historical development of the field-preparing you for work in the 21st century.
Professionals, Adoption Issues, Effects of Trauma, FASD in Adoption, Grief & Loss in the Triad, Home Studies, Need for Connections, Transitions Considerations
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Adoption Resources For Mental Health Professionals
Pamela V. Grabe
This text is designed to support mental health professionals who work with a specific group of children: those who have lived in foster care, those who have moved from one substitute home to another, and those who must survive repeated loss of contact with people they trust and love. Because of increased efforts to find permanent homes for these children, many more have been brought to the attention of clinicians. The background and problems of these children differ significantly from those of children who have not experienced separation and loss. This book is intended to provide guidance to professionals who are trying to assess and treat children in foster care or adoptive situations. The editors provide an overview of how the child welfare system ^affects the children and parents, therapy that can be used, and basic definition of terms. The 23 contributors include professionals with extensive teaching and practical experience in the field, This book will be a basic source for mental health professionals In the field of adoption.
Professionals, Adoption Issues, Effects of Trauma, FASD in Adoption, Grief & Loss in the Triad, Home Studies, Need for Connections, Transitions Considerations
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A Secure Base
John Bowlby
"A Secure Base" is a collection of 9 lectures that John Bowlby has given over the years. This book provides a great deal of interest and relevance for clinicians of all types in the fields of psychiatric, psychological, and social work practice.
Professionals, Adoption Issues, Effects of Trauma, FASD in Adoption, Grief & Loss in the Triad, Home Studies, Need for Connections, Transitions Considerations
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