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Youth leaving foster care : a developmental, relationship-based approach to practice / Wendy B. Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Wendy Benjamin, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foster children--Services for--United States.
- Foster children.
- Foster children--Psychology.
- Foster children--Counseling of.
- Foster children--Family relationships--United States.
- Foster children--Deinstitutionalization--United States.
- Ex-foster children--Social conditions--United States.
- Ex-foster children.
- Ex-foster children--Education--United States.
- Foster children--Government policy--United States.
- Child, Foster--psychology.
- Child, Foster--legislation & jurisprudence.
- Psychology, Adolescent.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- Child, Foster--psychology.
- Child, Foster--legislation & jurisprudence.
- Psychology, Adolescent.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Other Title:
- Developmental, relationship-based approach to practice
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This comprehensive text focuses on youth emerging from care, offering a new theoretical framework to guide students, practitioners, administrators, and policymakers. The book features case vignettes, recommendations for practice and programmes, and a multidimensional perspective on the effects of maltreatment on development, and common mental health disorders and treatment.
- Contents:
- Setting the stage
- Introduction to part I
- The child welfare system as context
- Theoretical perspectives
- Development
- Introduction to part II
- Neurobiology and development
- The importance of early attachments
- Adolescent development in foster care
- Mental health
- Introduction to part III
- Anxiety, trauma, and posttraumatic stress disorders
- Mood disorders and self harm
- Substance abuse
- Mental health dimensions of delinquency
- Program considerations
- Introduction to part IV
- Populations needing special attention
- The transition to adulthood: education, employment, and relationships
- Transitional living programs : best practices
- Future directions
- Introduction to part V
- Policy implications and directions for future research.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-045204-8
- 0-19-970494-5
- 9786612977312
- 1-282-97731-8
- OCLC:
- 922970429
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