Fostering Changes: Treating Attachment-Disordered Foster Children

Fostering Changes addresses the following questions: What is attachment? Who are attachment-disordered foster children? What can be done to help them? Fostering Changes is a practical book for those who care for, treat, and live with emotionally disturbed foster children...often the victims of phsyical abuse, neglect, sexual exploitation and abandonment. Though these young victims can be removed from the source of abuse and neglect, they take with them the invisible, internal scars of early maltreatment. These scars are often seen in attachment disorders - the vestiges of early disruption. This book provides optimistic, yet realistic, guidelines for intervention with disturbed foster children. It outlines a hopeful course of treatment for Fostering Changes.

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"'Fostering Changes' is a 'must read' book for anyone who works with or lives with the abused or neglected child who is in foster care or in an adoptive placement. It does a superb job of explaining 1) how the abused or neglected child develops a negative working model of the world; 2) how this negative working model is reenacted in future placements; and 3) the effects of the reenactment on the current caregiving family and helping adults. Dr. Delaney then follows up with suggestions for ways to intervene with problematic behaviors." -- Vera Fahlberg, M.D.

"'Fostering Changes' is an excellent resource for training foster parents. It gives a clear, easily understood format for foster parents that want to learn more about the children in their care." - Bonnie McNulty, Foster Parent for 33 years, Region VIII Vice-President of National Foster Parent Association, CEO of Presidio, Inc. "It would have been great to have had this book five years ago, when I started foster care. It is such a useful tool for sorting out the many odd behaviors, not normally experienced in society's so-called normal homes." -- Terry L. Bullard, Foster and Adoptive Parent ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Rick Delaney is a practicing psychologist who has treated and evaluated disturbed foster and adoptive children for the past sixteen years. He is a nationally-known consultant and trainer. He is a consultant to the Casey Family Program, Lutheran Family Services and to county departments of social service. He is the author of Healing Power of the Family: An Illustrated Overview of Life with the Disturbed Foster or Adopted Child; The Long Journey Home, a children's book illustrated by Terry McNerney; and Raising Cain: Caring for Troubled Youngsters/Repairing Our Troubled System; Troubled Transplants: Unconventional Strategies for Helping Distubed Foster and Adopted Children. Read more Continue reading Read less