Troubled Transplants: Unconventional Strategies for Helping Disturbed Foster and Adopted Children

Richard J. Delaney PhD

Unconventional strategies for helping disturbed foster and adopted children. Based on a model of teamwork, this book covers the impact of a disturbed child on the family, symptoms of children who have suffered abuse, neglect, and exploitation and their typical views of the world, how family members can easily get sucked into the child’s disturbed system and negative mind set, and concrete strategies to contain acting-out behaviors, increase the child’s ability to communicate verbally, foster negotiation skills, and promote positive encounters with significant others.

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