Melissa : teen mother in foster care / Calamari Productions.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Psychotherapy.net.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children with disabilities.

Foster home care.

Foster children.

Teenage pregnancy.

Social service.

Genre:

Educational films.

Streaming video.

Physical Description:

1 streaming video file (51 min.) : digital, sound, color

Place of Publication:

[Mill Valley, California] : Psychotherapy.net, 2016.

Language Note:

Closed captioned.

System Details:

System requirements: Internet connection with network speeds of 500 kbps or higher; Windows 7 or later or macOS Sierra (10.12.6) or later running browsers: Chrome 30+, Firefox 27+, Microsoft Edge, Safari 9+; H.264 video (required for viewing Vimeo videos) is only supported in Firefox for Windows 7 and later, Firefox versions on Windows XP are not supported.

System requirements: Android (Lollipop) version 5.0+ or iOS version 12.4+ for mobile viewers.

digital

Summary:

"In this training video, Watch the day-to-day struggles of Melissa, a 15-year-old foster child with a seven-month old medical-needs daughter of her own, Raven. Raven, who was born with 50% brain damage, has been placed in a foster home with Karen, a foster mother who specializes in raising medical needs children. Raven has showed tremendous progress while under Karen's care, but she still requires multiple medications several times a day and frequent medical attention. Melissa, who was on the run even while giving birth to Raven, was recently placed in Karen's foster home as well, so she is now able to be with her daughter. Focusing on the acute needs of one foster family, this video answers many questions about the nature of foster care. By watching this video, you will learn about the experience of a teenage mother who is now in foster and the chaotic home life which led her to run away and land in the foster system; understand how foster system caseworkers conduct home visits as well as how cases involving medical needs infants are handled, and learn how about the high degree of care these children require; and become more informed about severe foster care cases to enhance your practice when working with similar situations. Intended for students and practitioners in clinical psychology, counseling, social work, and related health professions." Supplied by publisher.

Notes:

This video is part of the Psychotherapy.net Social Work collection.

Title and description from publisher metadata.

Instructor's manual available for download on landing page.

Original copyright Calamari Productions, ©2003.

ISBN:

9781601245052

Publisher Number:

363 Psychotherapy.net

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.