Foster Parenting Step-by-Step: How to Nurture the Traumatized Child and Overcome Conflict - Softcover

Gopal, Dr. Kalyani

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849059373 ISBN 13: 9781849059374

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Pub, 2013

Synopsis

When you decide to foster, you are faced with many difficult decisions, dilemmas and questions: How do you navigate the daily struggles of foster parenting? How can you nurture bonds with your foster child who is angry, sad, and defiant? How can you prepare to step back when it's time to let go?

Foster Parenting Step-by-Step is a concise how-to guide to fostering that summarizes what to expect as a foster parent, and gives immediate practical solutions. It outlines the different stages of a fostering relationship, raising common issues encountered at each age and how to tackle them. It also explains the impact of trauma on your child: how this can show itself through challenging behavior and how to respond to it.

This book will provide fostering parents with the skills and knowledge to support the needs of the children in foster care. It will be invaluable not just to foster parents but also to those professionals supporting foster placements.

About this title

Book Description

A concise how-to guide to fostering that summarizes what to expect as a foster parent, and gives immediate practical solutions

From the Author

This book is meant to be a REFERENCE book for crisis situations, how to handle sudden difficult behaviors in your foster children, step-children, and grandchildren who are parent-less or otherwise displaced from their biological mothers and fathers.  'Solutions are presented with behaviors in easy to read bullets to assist you in handling severe behavioral and emotional meltdowns in children and adolescents.  I hope you find it very helpful.Dr. Gopal

Edition details

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Pub
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1849059373
• ISBN 13: 9781849059374
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160