Foster Parenting Step-by-Step

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Foster Parenting Step-by-Step

Author(s): Dr. Kalyani Gopal (Author)

  • Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Pub
  • Publication Date: 28 May 2013
  • Edition: Illustrated
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 160 pages
  • ISBN-10: 1849059373
  • ISBN-13: 9781849059374

Book Description

When parents decide to foster, they 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 realistic how-to guide to fostering that summarizes what to expect as a foster parent, gives hope and immediate hands-on solutions to real life issues. It guides you through the different stages of a fostering relationship, including common issues encountered at each age and how to tackle them. It provides guidance on understanding the impact of trauma on your child and their severe behaviours, and offers tips and strategies on how to offer the best support and develop the parent-child bond. This is a book that strives to empower fostering parents with the skills and knowledge to be more successful in their parenting and to give the children they care for the best possible opportunities in life. This book will be invaluable not just to foster parents but anyone working in the area of foster care.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Dr. Gopal has been a lifeline for many children in foster care and their parents and foster parents for many years. [She] is also a well-known speaker and has blessed the National Foster Parent Association with numerous workshop presentations at our annual education conferences. In Foster Parenting Step-by-Step: How to Nurture the Traumatized Child and Overcome Conflict, Dr. Gopal… writes as if she were sitting across the table from you and explaining the incredibly many aspects of foster care and foster parenting. My recommendation is to read the book from cover to cover, taking time to mark those areas that you know you will want to refer to time and time again as you welcome additional children into your home. This new book provides insights and recommendations that will be beneficial to all who chose to provide foster care and/or kinship care. Author: From the foreword by Irene Clements, Foster Care Consultant and President of the National Foster Parent Association (NFPA), Minneapolis, USA

This useful book is valuable for foster carers (and prospective foster carers) in helping to consider the issues around looking after other people’s children who have suffered early difficulties in their lives. It will help any foster carer to work reflectively and consider the options and issues that the child they are looking after is facing, together with ideas about strategies that might usefully be used in understanding and managing situations. As with all good foster care sharing ideas and thoughts gained in studying this book is made more effective by discussion in supervision. Author: Jim Bond MBE, Foster Carer and Counselor

Book Description

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

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