Fostering Changes: Treating Attachment-Disordered Foster Children

by Richard J. Delaney

Fostering Changes addresses the following What is attachment? Who are attachment-disordered foster children? What can be done to help them? Fostering Changes is a practical book for those who care for, treat, and live with emotionally disturbed foster children...often the victims of phsyical abuse, neglect, sexual exploitation and abandonment. Though these young victims can be removed from the source of abuse and neglect, they take with them the invisible, internal scars of early maltreatment. These scars are often seen in attachment disorders - the vestiges of early disruption. This book provides optimistic, yet realistic, guidelines for intervention with disturbed foster children. It outlines a hopeful course of treatment for Fostering Changes.

Genres: Parenting

Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

Reviews

[Carrie · Rating 1 out of 5]

I really dislike this book, and I say that coming from a therapist that works with children with attachment issues. The authors approach to dealing with these children is basically to get in their face and yell at them until they admit their feelings. I have not found this in any other literature on attachment. That said, from the case examples, it appears that the author was dealing with very severe cases of reactive-attachment. I think this book would scare most parents, so I would not recommend it.

[Thorn MotherIssues · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this because I was curious how a book from the early '90s would address attachment disorder, and it's really not too bad. I'm not sure how effective the advice was, but I could see the existence of a book like this being an initial life raft to someone who needed it.