| Description |
1 online resource (pages cm) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Foster Parenting Step-by-Step is a concise guide to fostering that summarizes what to expect as a foster parent. It guides you through the different stages of a fostering relationship, including common issues encountered at each age and how to tackle them. This is a book that strives to empower fostering parents with successful parenting skills. |
| Contents |
Foster Parenting Step-by-Step; Foreword; Quotes from Foster Children; Preface; Introduction; The foster care system; Managing challenging behaviors; Displacement trauma and coping mechanisms; Foster parents; Note to the reader; Chapter 1: The Motivational Stage: First Things First! Know What to Expect; The foster parent experience; Reasons why children enter foster care; Motives for becoming a foster parent; Qualities of successful foster parents; Importance of placement stability in a foster home; The jargon of the foster care experience: what do these terms mean? |
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Stages of development of foster parentingRole of cultural values in placement success; Kinship versus non-kinship foster parenting; Goals of foster parenting; Chapter 2; The Planning Stage; Chapter 2: The Planning Stage: About Your Family: Are You Prepared?; Size of home; Your mental health; Your children's mental health; How will a foster child relate to me or my children?; Ages and genders of foster children; Choosing special needs children; Buying clothes, shoes, room décor, and school supplies; Rules of the home; Introduction to relatives. |
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Chapter 3: The Welcoming Stage: Getting to Know Your Foster ChildFamily history; Questions you can ask about your foster child; What you may not be told about your foster child; Behaviors commonly seen in foster children; To work or not to work?; Schools; Chapter 4: The Displacement Trauma Stage: Understanding Your Foster Child; Chapter 5: The Adapting Stage: Attachment and Protecting Your Foster Child; Adapting to infants (0-5 years); Adapting to older children and adolescents (6-16 years); Chapter 6: The Educational Stage: Parenting Issues and Much More; Intra-family coping issues. |
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School-oriented issuesMental health issues; Family issues; Personal issues; Relationship issues; Agency-related issues; Chapter 7: The Empowering Stage: Successful Evidence-Based Strategies; Basic needs of all children; Steps in empowering foster parents; Chapter 8: The Letting Go/Adopting Stage: Transitioning Into Own Home/Independent Living; Pre-adoptive home/long-term placement; Effects of transitioning back to the biological home; Transitioning into independent living skills programs; Maintaining a collaborative relationship with an independent teen/young adult. |
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Ways you can help with the transitionResources and Useful Addresses; Selected Bibliography; About the Author; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Foster parents.
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Foster parents. |
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Foster children.
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Foster children. |
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Parenting.
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Parenting. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Foster parents. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Gopal, Kalyani. Foster parenting step-by-step. London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2013 9781849059374 (DLC) 2013011647 (OCoLC)817596067 |
| ISBN |
9780857007513 (electronic book) |
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0857007513 (electronic book) |
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9781849059374 |
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1849059373 |
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