11 Problems Associated with Providing Foster Care to “Disturbed” Children
1. removal from the “maltreating” home is delayed
2. “maltreating” parents continue to sabotage current placement
3. increase in severity of disturbance in today’s foster / adopted children
4. inadequate preparation and follow-up support to foster / adoption parents
5. failure to equip foster / adoption parents with practical therapeutic strategies
6. foster / adoption parents receive a “disturbed” child, and are then later misperceived that they might be the source of the child’s disturbance
7. the foster / adopted families are excluded from the “treatment team” though they are the ones who often know the child best and who have the greatest therapeutic impact on them
8. foster parents are given the most responsibility and the least amount of authority
9. foster parents are asked to become intimately involved with the child, yet are “chastised” if they become “overly zealous advocates” for the child
10. little or no respite care to allow for parent refueling
11. the “experts” don’t have the answers
OVERCOMING ATTACHMENT DISORDER IS NO EASY TASK –
THE REWARDS HOWEVER LAST A LIFETIME
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Many parents wonder what hit them when their sweet little baby turns into an unreasonable toddler – ideas for dealing with mealtime, bedtime, temper tanturms, toilet training, noncompliance, etc.
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“We are foster parents who took in a 13 year old girl (going on 18!) and she ran us through the wringer. Rick helped us learn how to set limits that made the difference.”
(G.E. – Strathroy)
