Using Lifebooks with Children in Family Foster Care: A Here-and-Now Process Model

Lifebooks are well-established as effective tools for helping children in family foster care cope with past events and future plans. The here-and-now process described in this article concerns the child's present life and is more accessible for both the child and the worker than traditional lif...

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Published inChild welfare Vol. 75; no. 4; pp. 321 - 335
Main Authors Holody, Richard, Maker, Susan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Arlington Child Welfare League of America, Inc 01.07.1996
Subjects
Adjustment (to Environment)
Bibliotherapy
Caseworker Client Relationship
Child Welfare
Children & youth
Coping
Emotional Adjustment
Families & family life
Family (Sociological Unit)
Foster Care
Foster Children
Kinship foster care
Life Books
Life stories
Literature Reviews
Parents
PRACTICE FORUM
Social Work
Social Workers
Therapy
Treatment Methods
Trust (Psychology)
Young children
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Summary:Lifebooks are well-established as effective tools for helping children in family foster care cope with past events and future plans. The here-and-now process described in this article concerns the child's present life and is more accessible for both the child and the worker than traditional lifebooks. Case examples demonstrate the model's effectiveness in each phase of the worker's encounters with the child. Limitations of the model are discussed.
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ISSN:0009-4021