| Chapter One: Attachment and Separation
The Importance of Attachment
The Development of Attachment between Parent and Child
Assessing Attachment
Identifying Attachment Problems
Promoting New Attachments for Children in Care
Chapter Two: Child Development
The First Year of Life
The Toddler Years
The Preschool Years
The Ages Six through Ten
Adolescence
Special Developmental Issues
Chapter Three: Separation and Loss
Factors Influencing the Reaction to Separation
The Grief Process
How Unresolved Separations May Interfere with
New Attachments
Chapter Four: Minimizing the Trauma of Moves
Overall Stragegies for Minimizing the Trauma of Moves
When Children Enter Interim Care
The Foster Family’s Role When the Child Leaves
Their Home
Return to the Birth Parents
Moving a Child to Adoption
Leaving the System by Emancipation |
Chapter Five: Case Planning
Working with Birth Parents
Assessment
Treatment Planning
Special Issues
Chapter Six: Behavior Problems
Principles of Behavior Management
Selecting an Approach to Behavior
Management
Managing Behavior that Reflects Attachment Problems
Children with Learning Problems
Chapter Seven: Direct Work with Children
The Scope of Direct Work
Communicating with Children
Additional Communication Tools
The Lifebook
Postscript
Glossary
Bibliography by Chapter |
