Clinical Practice with Children and Families in Foster Care
Karen Zilberstein and Richard J. Delaney
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ISBN 9781462566112
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Digital professor copy available on VitalSource once published ?This essential course text and practitioner resource prepares readers for the distinctive challenges of working with children and families involved in foster care. It brings research and evidence-informed practice together with the clinical judgment needed to understand complex situations in which families’ histories, relationships, and system involvement continually shape one another. Unfolding cases illustrate how therapists build trust, develop their understanding as new information emerges, adapt interventions, and respond to the emotional demands of the work. The book integrates elements of trauma and attachment theory, child development, caregiving relationships, culture, and the larger systems surrounding care. End-of-chapter Key Points and Reflective Questions enhance learning; extensive PowerPoint slides and class exercises for teaching and training are provided on the companion website.
About the Authors
Karen Zilberstein, MSW, LICSW, is cofounder and Clinical Director of the Western Massachusetts chapter of A Home Within, a national organization providing long-term pro bono psychotherapy for current and former foster youth. Her clinical work, research, and numerous articles focus on attachment, trauma, foster care, adoption, and advocacy with the child welfare system, and she serves on and has chaired national committees advancing child welfare and mental health practice. Ms. Zilberstein is a recipient of the Angels in Adoption Award from the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute and was named a Fellow of the Association of Professionals Solving the Abuse of Children.Richard J. Delaney, PhD ("Rick"), is a nationally known trainer who has given several hundred presentations to foster, kinship, and adoptive parents, as well as helping professionals, throughout the United States and Canada. He is cofounder of and a principal contributor to the online training resource FosterParentCollege.com. Dr. Delaney’s research focuses on the use of multimedia interactive online training for caregivers raising children with challenging behavior. He has coauthored several peer-reviewed journal articles related to the use of web-based and blended training for foster, kinship, and adoptive parents who are raising substance-exposed or traumatized children.