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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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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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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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Cruelest Con, The: AGuide for a S.A.F.E. Adoption Journey
Kelly Kiser-Mostrom
For nearly three years, author Kelly Kiser-Mostrom endured the nightmare of an adoption scam. Through her heart-wrenching personal journey in The Cruelest Con, Kiser-Mostrom focuses on the changing and often frightening world of adoption. She exposes the treachery behind adoption facilitator Sonya Furlow who exploited and defrauded forty-four adoptive parents of over $215,000, shattering their most basic dream in life -- to have a family. Kister-Mostrom points out the chilling truth about adoption laws in the United States. Facilitators are unregulated, and laws vary from state to state, leaving the adoption world wide open for many kinds of criminal activities and baby buying. Through Kiser-Mostrom's personal testament, you'll be able to form a foundation for a positive adoption journey. Kiser-Mostrom focuses on these key points: 1) Detect red flags when dealing with an intermediary; 2) Learn how to cope with grief as a victim of adoption fraud; 3) Learn how and when to report suspected fraud; 4) Follow guidelines to obtain an adoption professional; 5) Find adoption resources; 6) Gain a new perspective on the positives and negatives of adoption. Don't let fraud and deception destroy your adoption dreams. Let The Cruelest Con guide you through the adoption process.
General Adoption, Domestic Adoption, Foster Care Adoption, International Adoption, Relative Adoption, Transracial Adoption, Professionals, Adoption Issues, Home Studies
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Listening in Everyday Life: A Personal & Professional Approach
Michael Purdy & Deborah Borisoff
This book addresses the role listening plays in our personal and professional lives, and provides steps we can take to strengthen our own listening skills. Each chapter was written specifically for this book with the intention of introducing the reader to the major theories that affect the processes of listening, and to the impact of listening behavior on our own ability to be effective communicators.
Parenting, Discipline, Grief & Loss, Parenting Teens, General Adoption, Domestic Adoption, Foster Care Adoption, Growing Up Adopted, International Adoption, Openness in Adoption, Relative Adoption, Transracial Adoption, Professionals, Adoption Issues, Grief & Loss in the Triad, Home Studies, Need for Connections, Transitions Considerations
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