Nancy Boyd Webb
Foreword by James W. Drisko

470 Pages Size: 6" x 9"
Hardcover August 2011 ISBN 978-1-60918-643-2 Cat. #8643 Price: $57.00 $48.45 order	E-book November 2011 ISBN 978-1-60918-645-6 EPUB format Price: $57.00 $48.45 order

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1. The Challenge of Meeting Children's Needs

2. Necessary Background for Helping Children

II. The Process of Helping Children: a Running Case Illustration of a Child in a Single-Parent Homeless Family

3. Building Relationships with All Relevant Systems

4. The Biopsychosocial Assessment of the Child

5. Contracting, Planning Interventions, and Tracking Progress

III. Different Methods of Helping Children

6. Working with the Family

7. Individual Play Therapy

8. Group Work with Children

9. School-Based Interventions

IV. Helping Children in Special Circumstances

10. Children Living in Kinship and Foster Home Placements

11. Children in Single-Parent, Divorcing, and Blended Families

12. Children in Families Affected by Illness and Death

13. Children in Substance-Abusing Families

14. Child Victims and Witnesses of Family and Community Violence

15. The Interpersonal Violence of Bullying

16. The Impact of a Changing World on Practice with and for Children

Appendices:

Child-Related Professional Organizations

Child-Related Professional Journals

Training Programs and Certifications

Suppliers of Play Materials

Bereavement Resources

Forms for Assessment of the Bereaved Child

Forms for Assessment of the Child in Crisis