Understanding children in foster care : Identifying and addressing what children learn from maltreatment / Wendy Kelly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelly, Wendy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foster children--Care.

Foster children.

Child abuse.

Physical Description:

xvi, 232 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan 2017.

Summary:

This book introduces the Relational Learning Framework (RLF), an assessment tool which helps foster care practitioners, social workers and foster carers to examine what foster children have learned in their early life about relationships and particularly through maltreatment. Grounded in attachment theory and drawing on cognitive theory this book will help practitioners to understand and respond to the challenging behaviour presented by these children and remove barriers to an empathic response. Early chapters provide context in a theoretical discourse on the causes and consequences of psychological and attachment difficulties for children in care, including a discussion of maltreatment and foster care. The theoretical basis of the technique will be outlined and subsequent chapters will explain how to undertake RLF including the wide-ranging practice evidence, a worked example, common themes and trouble shooting.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783319653754

331965375X

OCLC:

1012602748