Full Description
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.
Contents
Quotes from Foster Children. Preface. Introduction. 1. The Motivational Stage - First Things First! Know What to Expect. 2. The Planning Stage - About Your Family. Are You Prepared? 3. The Welcoming Stage - Getting to Know Your Foster Child. 4. Displacement Trauma. 5. The Adapting Stage - Attachment and Protecting Your Foster Child. 6. The Educational Stage - Parenting Issues and Much More. 7. The Empowering Stage - Successful Evidence-Based Strategies. 8. The Letting Go/Adopting Stage. Resources and Useful Addresses. Bibliography. Index.
