Age Group: Infant/Toddler, Preschool, School Age, Adolescent, Young Adult
For Use By: Parents
Recommended For: Individuals, Group Training
Publishing Date: 2011
Adding a foster child to the family shakes up existing roles and routines. Birth children may be excited about having a new child in the home and at the same time resent the attention their parents give to the new child. Those feelings begin before the foster child arrives, when foster parents are busy with meetings and preparations and birth children begin to feel what it will be like to share their parents.
This class discusses the challenges families face pre-placement, during placement, and post-placement and offers insights and advice for helping birth children through those challenges. The course touches on how fostering affects birth children in their late teens or early 20s who no longer live in the home full-time.
At the end of this course, you will be able to:
Includes: 1 Interactive DVD, plus Discussion Guide and reproducible questionnaire on a CD.
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