Transitions Considerations
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FosterClub Transition Toolkit: a tool for developing a youth-driven transition plan
FosterClub
Foster Club's Transition Toolkit was designed just for this transitioning journey. It is a youth-involved, comprehensive way to develop a transition plan for foster youth aging out of care. Foster Club's Transition Toolkit includes planning worksheets, record keeping, detailed maps, and resources.
Children's Titles, Teen Titles, Parenting, Parenting Teens, General Adoption, Foster Care Adoption, Professionals, Transitions Considerations
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Foster Care 411: a youth's guide to foster care
FosterClub
Foster Care 411 helps youth understand the foster care system and take an active part in their case plan. Foster Care 411 is designed to give young people in care the answers they need to better understand foster care and take charge of their lives. Written in accessible, engaging format, this comprehensive guide includes: questions and ansers in relevant foster care topic areas, a glossary of terms to help youth bette runderstand foster care terminology, Foster to Famous stories to inspire and empower young people, quotes from youth in care relating their experiences and providing advice and encouragement, FYI Forms to help young people communicate and advocate on their behalf. Though written for youth, Foster Care 411 is also a valuable source of informaiton for any supportive adult of youth in care.
Children's Titles, Teen Titles, Parenting, Parenting Teens, General Adoption, Foster Care Adoption, Professionals, Transitions Considerations
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Steps in My Shoes
Ron Deming
Steps in My Shoes is a true account of my journey through the foster care system and beyond. Going through four foster homes, two adoptive homes, five behavioral facilities, and battling with reactive attachment disorder (RAD), and sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) certainly taught me a lot. The abysmal college graduation rate of less than 3% for foster youth did not prevent me from bagging a bachelor’s degree and becoming a licensed teacher. If I could go through all that and still found the courage to become a teacher and author, then I believe other foster youth can too. Reading this book will totally educate you on what an average child in the foster care system passes through on a daily basis. This intriguing book is a must have for teachers, social workers, foster/adoptive parents, people considering being foster/adoptive parents, and current/past foster and adopted youth.
General Adoption, Domestic Adoption, Foster Care Adoption, Growing Up Adopted, Professionals, Adoption Issues, Need for Connections, Transitions Considerations
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Hold Me Tight
Dr. Sue Johnson
Heralded by the New York Times and Time magazine as the couple therapy with the highest rate of success, Emotionally Focused Therapy works because it views the love relationship as an attachment bond. This idea, once controversial, is now supported by science, and has become widely popular among therapists around the world.
In Hold me Tight, Dr. Sue Johnson presents Emotionally Focused Therapy to the general public for the first time. Johnson teaches that the way to save and enrich a relationship is to reestablish safe emotional connection and preserve the attachment bond. With this in mind, she focuses on key moments in a relationship-from Recognizing the Demon Dialogue to Revisiting a Rocky Moment-and uses them as touchpoints for seven healing conversations. Through case studies from her practice, illuminating advice, and practical exercises, couples will learn how to nurture their relationships and ensure a lifetime of love.
Parenting, Grief & Loss, General Adoption, Foster Care Adoption, Openness in Adoption, Relative Adoption, Search and Reunion, Professionals, Adoption Issues, Need for Connections, Transitions Considerations, LGBTQ
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The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals
Stephanie Brill & Rachel Pepper
This comprehensive first of its kind guidebook explores the unique challenges that thousands of families face every day raising their children in every city and state. Through extensive research and interviews, as well as years of experience working in the field, the authors cover gender variance from birth through college. What do you do when your toddler daughter’s first sentence is that she’s a boy? What will happen when your preschool son insists on wearing a dress to school? Is this ever just a phase? How can you explain this to your neighbors and family? How can parents advocate for their children in elementary schools? What are the current laws on the rights of transgender children? What do doctors specializing in gender variant children recommend? What do the therapists say? What advice do other families who have trans kids have? What about hormone blockers and surgery? What issues should your college-bound trans child be thinking about when selecting a school? How can I best raise my gender variant or transgender child with love and compassion, even when I barely understand the issues ahead of us? And what is gender, anyway? These questions and more are answered in this book offering a deeper understanding of gender variant and transgender children and teens.
Professionals, Need for Connections, Transitions Considerations, LGBTQ, Parenting LGBTQ, Youth Identity
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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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Handbook of Assessment and Treatment Planning for Psychological Disorders
Martin M. Antony & David H. Barlow
This comprehensive reference and text provides detailed guidelines for conducting multimodal assessments of individuals suffering from frequently encountered psychological disorders. The contributors, leading scientist-practitioners, address the growing need for assessment approaches that are brief, easy to implement, and psychometrically sound. A wide range of tools and techniques are considered, including structured and semi-structured interviews, self-report measures, psychophysiological measures, observational techniques, and more. Of crucial importance, the book also demonstrates how assessment results can effectively be used in planning evidence-based interventions and monitoring the outcome of treatment. Providing essential knowledge to guide clinical decision making, this volume is an ideal companion for psychologists, psychiatrists, and other practitioners in today's demanding healthcare environment. An important reference for clinical researchers, it will serve as a text in graduate-level courses.
Professionals, Adoption Issues, Effects of Trauma, Grief & Loss in the Triad, Need for Connections, Transitions Considerations
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Road to Independence, The
Foster Care Alumni
Transitioning youth in foster care to independence
Professionals, Transitions Considerations
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Teenagers and Attachment: Helping Adolescents Engage with Life and Learning
Sue Amey, Camila Batmanghelidjh, Louise Michelle B
When children from insecure backgrounds become adolescents, the challenges they experience themselves and present for those around them can get a lot harder to sort out, before the teenager can fully integrate into society. These adolescents can quickly acquire 'bad kid' or 'anti-social' labels. They may form attachments by joining gangs, but in doing so, further alienate themselves from other more constructive options on offer.The contributors to this much needed book have all worked successfully on the front line with teenagers whose ability to make healthy relationships, or to find learning exciting or even possible, has been severely compromised by their past experiences of trauma, neglect and abuse. Each expert practitioner offers practical strategies, underpinned by attachment theory and their own extensive experience, to enable teachers, psychologists, therapists and social workers to reach out to young people in new ways, establishing genuine connection and real possibilities for learning and hope.
Professionals, Adoption Issues, Need for Connections, Transitions Considerations
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Adoption Constellation, The: New Ways of Thinking About and Practicing Adoption
Michael Phillip Grand
Clinical psychologist, Michael Grand, brings a compassionate understanding to all members of the adoption constellation. Drawing upon a lifetime of personal experience, research and clinical practice, he challenges conventional ways of thinking about adoption. The limitations of attachment theory as an explanation of adoption outcome are presented. In its place, he suggests a narrative understanding of adoption. Core themes of identity, grief, mattering and trust, permeate these narratives and shape the experience of members of the constellation. As a passionate advocate for openness, Grand explores the psychological costs of denying identifying information to adopted individuals and their birth kin. Parallels are also drawn to an impending crisis as offspring of assisted reproduction seek answers to their identity questions. The book concludes with a consideration of alternative permanency arrangements and a primer for opening closed adoption records. This book will change how we approach adoption in all of its manifestations
Professionals, Adoption Issues, Need for Connections, Transitions Considerations
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