Turmoil to turning points : building hope for children in crisis placements

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Label

Turmoil to turning points : building hope for children in crisis placements

Title remainder

building hope for children in crisis placements

Statement of responsibility

Richard Kagan

Creator

• Kagan, Richard

Subject

• Dysfunctional families -- United States
• Familie
• Family counseling
• Family counseling -- United States
• Family social work
• Family social work -- United States
• Dysfunctional families
• Foster home care -- United States
• Kind
• Sozialarbeit
• USA
• United States
• Unterprivilegierung
• Foster home care

Language

eng

Summary

• Speaking from the trenches, Richard Kagan offers hope to all those who want to help high-risk children and their families. Turmoil to Turning Points discusses principles and strategies that practitioners can use to guide their work. These include engaging parents of children in placement, mapping family resources, identifying split messages children hear from their family and understanding their ensuing struggle, developing centering messages to link the children with their family, mobilizing supportive networks and creating safety plans, fostering attachments, and making visits and review conferences constructive times for change. Dr. Kagan stresses that permanency work begins with respect for a family's strengths and struggles to survive. However, since not every family is destined to live "happily ever after," he discusses back-up plans for children who cannot go back home
• The book closes with a look at what can be done to improve child and family services, how we can make the system work for children, families, and our communities, and how practitioners can touch a family's pain without becoming traumatized themselves

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

index present

LC call number

HV699

LC item number

.K35 1996

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography