Creating Compassionate Foster Care: Lessons of Hope from Children and Families in Crisis

"A compelling, insightful look at foster care, and how to help support and enable children and their families to be re-united" according to Amazon Customer. This is suburb, highly-readable book whose wisdom translatable far beyond foster care. The book provides "case studies" of young children placed in foster care, and the deep, dedicated work that was provided by the staff of Children's Ark in Spokane, WA to support the children and their birth parent(s) so that the children could return to their original families. Drawing extensively on attachment theory, the book offers compelling examples of how to help children and adults build the emotional bonds to support the children's social, emotional learning—strategies that support and guide the pare. it is easily understandable to parents cynthia lambert This is a fascinating book relating the struggle of parents who are in danger of losing their children due to neglect or abuse. Although it is written by and for people who work with foster children and their families, it is easily understandable to parents, teachers and anyone else who loves and works with children. Very compelling and informative. It will change the way you relate to your own children.

Inspired by their relationships with families in crisis, the authors began to rethink the traditional foster care models and developed an innovative practice that afforded birth parents the opportunity to reside, under supervision, with their children during evaluation and treatment. We need only to listen."This is among the conclusions that the authors, one of whom is an experienced foster parent and the other a professor of developmental psychology, draw as a result of working with a diverse range of children and families. Drawing on over 20 years of work in foster care, along with current attachment research and theory, this book conveys the foster care experience with recommendations for improved models of care and intervention strategies.Engaging case studies depict the challenging nature of determining the best outcome for a child and of supporting the adult's journey as a parent. "Every child's way of being can open doors to wisdom, compassion, and human connection. Written in a narrative style and supported by in-depth research, this book will aid social workers and foster care professionals to better understand families in crisis and to further develop their practice.

-- Julie A. This fine book helps the reader recognize the cost we pay in separating children from their primary caregivers and how this can become an eventual obstacle to reunification. With a high degree of reverence for this complexity, it challenges society: if we want to help the child, we must help the family. For those who work with children and families who are struggling, it is a refreshing reminder of the value of embracing all involved. -- Charles H. -- Fr. Gregory J. -- Bob Lonne, B Soc Wk, Ph.D., Professor of Social Work & Discipline Leader, University of New England, Australia . -- Dee Wilson, former child welfare administrator and author of The Sounding Board, Child Welfare Commentaries. Boyle, Founder of Homeboy Industries and Author of Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

Molly was a research affiliate on the Circle of Security Intervention Program.. Janet Mann is a former foster parent and founder and director of The Children's Ark foster home in Spokane, Washington. Janet has advanced training in Infant Mental Health and is certified in Circle of Security Assessment and Treatment Planning.Molly Kretchmar-Hendrick