Troubled Transplants: Unconventional Strategies for Helping Disturbed Foster and Adopted Children

by Richard J. Delaney, Frank R. Kunstal

Caring for troubled adoptive/foster care children can be both harrowing and heroic. Many of today's foster and adopted children come from backgrounds where they experience not only the loss of previous caregivers, but have also suffered from abuse, sexual exploitation, or neglect. Individuals who invite these children into their homes often find themselves in a therapeutic role that can tax and exhaust. Troubled Transplants focuses on these children, their backgrounds, and their deleterious impact on the interaction and environment with the foster or adoptive family. The authors provide suggestions about behavioral roots and practical strategies to address and improve these issues.

Genres: Adoption, Psychology

Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

Reviews

[Shayne]

This positive foster/adoptive parenting book needs to be read by every therapist and social worker working with children in the foster care system. It shines a light on the difficulties of being a foster parent and supports the foster/adoptive parents as part of the team working towards optimal health for the child.
So often foster/adoptive parents are seen in the classic family systems theory that if the children are acting out that the cause of the issues can be traced to the parents. Though this is acceptable treatment in birth families the reality of foster/adoptive placements is different. A healthy family structure can be completely hijacked by children with emotional difficulties. Most healthy normal families have basic relationship skills that they have learned over the years but have not learned the more advanced skills that are often need for children who have been traumatized.
Fantastic book with great therapeutic recomendations