Children living in transition : helping homeless and foster care children and families /

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Other Authors: Zlotnick, Cheryl (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Theories of practice with transitional families
  • Transitional families : where do i begin? / Cheryl Zlotnick and Luann DeVoss
  • "We don't get whuppings here anymore" : toward a collaborative, ecological model of parenting / Marguerite A. Wright
  • Giving voice : an exploration of the integration of social justice and infant mental health / Erica Torres and Kathryn Orfirer
  • Preparing the organization for its work with transitional families
  • Letting some air into the room : opening agency space for considerations of culture and power / Lisa R. Berndt
  • Rediscovering positive work relationships within a diverse relationship-based organization : serving children in transition / Karen Thomas
  • Promising programs and culturally informed interventions
  • Transforming shame : allowing memories in foster care to inform interventions with foster youth / Lou Felipe
  • Crossing the border and facing the system : challenges immigrant families experience when a child is removed from their care and placed into the child welfare system / Rosario Murga-Kusnir
  • "I am bad!" / Roberto Macias Sanchez
  • "When do i get to go home?" / Peggy Pearson
  • The cats project : helping families land on their feet / Vance Hitchner
  • Needs for the future
  • A systems dilemma : intergenerational foster care and homelessness / Cheryl Zlotnick
  • List of contributors
  • Index.