Preparing Foster Parents Own Children for the Fostering Experience
Barbara Jordan
Preparing Foster Parents Own Children for the Fostering Experience is designed to promote the stability of the fostering experience for the foster family by decreasing the opportunities for conflicts between the child in care and the foster family's children.
The curriculum is organized in a three session format with each session scheduled for approximately one and one-half hours.
Session One promotes skills to: Identify the members of the foster care system; Understand the basic roles of each member of the system; Identify reasons youth come into the foster care system; Understand necessity for confidentiality; and, Identify potential changes in family relationships with a new child in the household.
Session Two strives to: Identify a variety of feelings/behaviors /problems brought into the home by foster children; Identify why certain feelings can cause these certain behaviors; Suggest methods of coping with these behaviors; Plan ways to discuss various behaviors with parents; and, Clarify the difference between being a "snitch" and telling parents when something is wrong.
Session Three helps children to: Identify activities and situations that will be new for the new child; Describe ways to help the new child be comfortable in the home and community; Discuss reasons that parents will have less time to spend with "own" children, but recognize that the love is still the same; Identify stages of separation and loss; Describe the grieving process in age appropriate terms; and, Clearly define the goals of family foster care. Designed and presented in a loose leaf format, the curriculum also provides the trainer with numerous vignettes, role plays, suggestions for discussions and game and interaction ideas for reinforcing the concepts of each training session. The curriculum contains a copy of the Handbook.
#9750 - $45.00 Ea.
Preparing Foster Parents Own Children for the Fostering Experience:
A Handbook for Foster Parents
The companion handbook for Preparing Foster Parents Own Children for the Fostering Experience is suitable for either the group training format or as a self-instructional workbook for the foster family. The content focuses on an overview of the foster care system; reasons for placement; and, family dynamics with new placements. The handbook concludes with a series of behavioral vignettes offering the opportunity for family discussions about the real world issues the family will face as a foster family.
#9755-$6.50 Ea. 10+ Copies - $5.55 Ea.
Living With the Sexually Abused Child: A Curriculum for the Foster Parents Own Children
Developed as a sequel to Ms. Jordan's: Preparing Foster Parents Own Children for the Fostering Experience, Living With the Sexually Abused Child is organized in a three session format with each session scheduled for approximately an hour. The curriculum content builds on the understanding achieved through Preparing Foster Parents Own Children for the Fostering Experience and provides the opportunity for the foster family's own children to: recognize the exposure to sexual abuse in the foster family, communicate comfortably about sex, understand specific sexual terms, differentiate between appropriate and inappropriate touch, utilize coping strategies for sexually aggressive situations, understand the necessity for sharing and communicating with parents, and, understand why abused foster children exhibit inappropriate behaviors and know some ways to help them change. The curriculum contains a copy of the Handbook.
#9751 - $45.00 Ea.
Living With the Sexually Abused Child: A Curriculum for the Foster Parents Own Children: A Handbook for Foster Parents
The companion handbook for the curriculum: Living With the Sexually Abused Child - A Curriculum for the Foster Parents Own Children the format is suitable for both group sessions or for self-instruction.
#9756 $6.50 Ea. 10+ Copies - $5.55 Ea.