Letters to Foster Parents Series
Charles Confer
#3371 Letters to Foster Parents: On Managing Angry Behavior
In a series of five "personal letters to the parents" format Charles Confer imparts both the philosophical foundation and the knowledge-skills and techniques for effectively dealing, as a foster parent, with angry behavior in children and youth. In a fun to read, easy to comprehend style, Mr. Confer shares personal insights that ring true to foster parents serving in today's child welfare system. Each "letter" is followed by a work sheet to focus the reader's attention on the skills and techniques presented in each section. Letters to Foster Parents is suitable for both group and individual learning experiences.
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#3372: On Developing Personal Power (Out of Print)
#3373 Letters to Foster Parents: On Discipline
The third workbook in the series explores the basics of discipline - What is discipline, discipline verses power; Three requirements for effective discipline; The importance of discipline; Giving youth the attention they need; and, Criticism.
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#3374 Letters to Foster Parents: More On Discipline
More On Discipline expands on the basics set forth in On Discipline - Focusing on the primary cause of discipline problems: conflicts over power; Understanding power struggles; Power vs. control and the use of force; Modeling a "coercion free" home; Appropriate use of parental power; and, preventing discipline problems - and negotiation to resolve differences - actions and consequences.
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#3375 Letters to Foster Parents: On Separation and Loss
In family foster care the issues of separation and loss are a two way street - for the child coming into care on leaving home and family and for the foster family on the return of the child in care to the biological family. On Separation and Loss explores what is loss; how do children experience loss; helping children manage loss; and, effectively dealing with your own loss.
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#3376 Letters to Foster Parents: On Communication
The sixth Letters to Foster Parents focuses on developing or enhancing foster parents communications skills and promotes effective strategies and techniques for expressing your thoughts and wants and overcoming communication difficulties between parents and youth and among the parents and other child welfare professionals.
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#3377 Letters to Foster Parents: On Being Successful
Although foster parents work hard and long they are often nagged by questions of success as foster parents. On Being Successful promotes a positive and practical definition of success, presents a twenty-seven actions list to achieve successful fostering, offers fifteen "thoughts" for successful fostering, describes eleven emotions that "signal" success, and, concludes with a twenty-five "Foster Parent Success Checklist" to validate the fostering experience.
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#3378 Letters to Foster Parents: From Foster Children and Others
Foster Parents are deeply involved in the lives of the children placed in their foster care. One of the several frustrations and disappointments of fostering is we are often not aware of the results of our efforts. This workbook presents letters from former foster children to their foster parents; the letters serve as a positive witness to the results of the foster parents efforts. In addition the workbook contains letters written to foster parents from community leaders indicating that the work of foster parents is noted and appreciated by members of the community.
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#3379 Letters to Foster Parents: On Working With Staff
On Working With Staff provides a discussion of the issues we face as a "team" working for the best possible placement for each child in care; suggests a practical definition for "team"; lists specific strategies for successfully working together for the best interests of the child in care.
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#3382 Letters to Foster Parents: On Working With Natural Families
This workbook focuses on the concepts of family based treatment, the need for developing a positive relationship between foster and birth families, managing problems between birth and foster families, understanding and working through the issues raised by foster parents own children such as issues of property, privacy, conflicts, school and problems regarding inappropriate foster child behavior.
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#3383 Letters to Foster Parents: On Managing Problems, Crises and Emergencies
Foster parents are called upon to manage problems, crises and emergencies - often these terms are misused and confused - this workbook begins with examples and definitions for each; suggests strategies and techniques for managing and solving problems in the foster family, understanding and managing crises with specific actions steps, and, the actions and responsibilities of positively managing emergencies.
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