Conversations with Foster Parents
AFCR presents a new series of in-service materials for fostering families. The physical format is an eight panel fold-out, finished size: 4.24" x 11." The series of monographs averages twelve hundred to two thousand words each and each is comparable to approximately one hour of face-to-face training. The monographs are suitable for group training sessions or for individual self-instruction. The text style is conversational in tone with a focus on personal skills-building and interjected with both rhetorical and fill-in-the-blank questions.
#0540 Avoiding the My Kid/Their Kid Trap: A Conversation with Foster Parents
The monographs promotes sensitivity to the dynamics of foster family relationships and suggests some pitfalls for the foster parents in both recognizing and establishing house rules to promote equity and self-esteem of and among all the family members.
#0540 $.95 Ea., 25+ $.89 Ea., 50+ $.83 Ea.
#0541 Working With the Birth Family: A Conversation with Foster Parents
A primer on developing a relationship with the foster child's birth family, the monograph suggests strategies for meeting the child's needs by maintaining connectivity with the child's relatives.
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#0542 Eight Roadblocks to Personal Change: A Conversation with Foster Parents
A straightforward presentation of the 'big' eight personal barriers to personal change with some suggestions for overcoming the same.
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#0543 Arrivals and Departures: A Conversation with Foster Parents
The comings and goings of foster care placements impacts both the foster family and child in care–the monograph offers strategies to prepare for arrivals and departures with a primary focus on attitudes, sensitivity and concrete suggestions for planing.
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#0544 Self-esteem: What it Really Means and Why it Really Matters: A Conversation with Foster Parents
Self-esteem has been given a bad-rap in some quarters as a shorthand for making excuses for or the coddling of immature behavior. Just isn't so. This monograph explains what it is and how foster parents can capitalize on the benefits inherent in developing a strong sense of self-esteem in children in care.
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#0545 Using Effective Problem-solving Strategies: A Conversation with Foster Parents
Naturally, a basic requirement before using problem-solving strategies is having some. This essay provides a basic problem-solving formula and a discussion of the symptoms-vs-problems dilemma in managing behavior, establishing house rules and managing household interactions.
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#0546 Helping Children with Homework: A Conversation with Foster Parents
A primer on the basics of good study habits plus suggestions on developing those habits in children in care who historical have greater school difficulties than their peers.
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#0547 On Building Effective Relationships with School: A Conversation with Foster Parents
Creating relationships that encourage school teachers and administrators to be part of the solution and not part of the problem for children in care requires pro-active investment on the part of foster families.
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#0548 Making House Rules Make Sense: A Conversation with Foster Parents
A primer on the basics of good 'house rule making' seasoned with a dash of common sense and 'we are a family not a widget factory.' All too often foster families, in their zeal to be fair and well-organized, create a ever increasingly complex labyrinth of to-do and not-to-do that has the parents investing more energy in their internal policing of 'the rules' than justified by any benefit in improved 'domestic tranquility.'
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#0549 Positive Discipline: A Conversation with Foster Parents
A basic requirement before utilizing positive discipline strategies is to both have some and be well grounded in the principles of what positive discipline is and why it works. This essay provides a ranging discussion of the building blocks of developing a positive discipline strategy for the foster family home.
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#0550 Ethics in the Practice of Providing Foster Care: A Conversation with Foster Parents
What is your personal code of ethics? What causes people who generally behave ethically to act in an unethical manner? A brief essay noting ethical difficulties for both social workers and foster parents, the use and misuse of confidentiality, the blame game of responsibility and ending with an ethical checklist for any action.
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#0551 Caring for the Adolescent: Hazards, Risks and Promises: A Conversation with Foster Parents
The essay provides an overview of the many challenges faced by teens needing foster home placements and the demonstrated positive options for foster parents to successfully aid, help and assist teens through the problems of adolescents.
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#0552 Runaways in Foster Care: A Conversation with Foster Parents
With a focus on a frequent challenge for foster families, Runaways in Foster Care promotes a discussion on how foster parents can be instrumental in helping model appropriate communication skills and coping abilities for youth in care for whom running away has developed as a problem-solving and decision-making strategy.
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#0553 Kids and "Friends": A Conversation with Foster Parents
Young people become involved in many relationships with adults and peers who may or may not support and foster their healthy participation, growth, and development. It is important to encourage them to look at each of their relationships and assess its value to them. As foster parents work with youth in their care they need to help with relationship assessment.
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#0554 Q&A: Some Basic Issues When Fostering the Sexually Abused Child: A Conversation with Foster Parents
The monograph promotes a discussion of some of the issues: sexual behaviors, touching, house rules and boundaries for child sexual abuse victims and some strategies for effective discipline with the sexually abused child in foster family care.
#0554 $.95 Ea., 25+ $.89 Ea., 50+ $.83 Ea.
New titles in the series will be announced quarterly.