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1 online resource |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note about Language; Introduction: Welcoming Strangers; 1 Responding to a Major Need; 2 The Multiple Violences Suffered by Children in Care; Intentional, Foreseeable, and Accidental Violent Actions; Verbal Violence; Structural Violence; Four Loci of Violence; Violence in the Birth Home; Removal from the Home, Placed in the System; Further Abuse in the Foster Home; A General Culture of Violence; 3 Larger Houses, More Children; Caring for Your Own Children; 4 Thinking Further about Violence; So, What Is Wrong with Violence? |
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5 Why Re-parenting?Mother's "Caring Labor" and Re-parenting; A Needs-based Approach; Physiological Needs; Safety Needs; Love Needs; Esteem Needs; Self-Actualizing Needs; Human Nature?; Empathy and Self-Control, Example and Presence; 6 Teens, Tantrums, Sex, and Substance Abuse; Graduations, Proms, and Suits; Suspensions and Disruptions; Work and Money Issues; Deputies and Cruisers; Stealing; Sex; Substance Abuse; 7 A Question of Ethics: How Shall We Live?; Values; Ethics, Rules, and Punishment; Ancient Ethics for Today; Making Nonviolence the Goal; Accidental Nonviolence |
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Intentional Nonviolence8 The Long Term: Permanence, Adoption, Returning Home, and Keeping in Touch; Adoption; Returning Home; Independent Living; Keeping in Touch; 9 Spanking, Discipline, and Nonviolence; Nonviolence Is Not the Same as No Discipline; Setting Boundaries; When It All Goes Wrong; 10 Loving Nonviolent Habits and Virtues; Verbs and Nouns; Unpacking the Virtues and Habits; Goodness-Doing Good; Nonharm-Refusing Violent Actions; Courage-Acting Courageously; Justice-Acting Fairly; Kindness with Gentleness-Acting Kindly and Gently; Care-Caring For; Faithfulness-Keeping Faith With |
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Forgiveness with Reparation: Forgiving Wrongs and Fixing MistakesMindfulness, Gratefulness, Nonpossessiveness: Acting Mindfully, Saying Thank You, Letting Go; Moderation-Acting Moderately; The Care of All Sentient Beings: Vegetarianism; 11 Second-Hand Shock Syndrome and Caring for Yourself; Compassion Fatigue; Secondary Traumatic Stress; Vicarious Trauma; Caring for Yourself; Mindfulness and Meditation; How to Practice; Getting in Touch with Your Body; Coming Face to Face with Your Own Violence; 12 Praxis: Creating a Nonviolent Home with the Ordinariness of Love |
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Addendum: Money Can't Buy Me LoveAppendix: Definitions of Child Abuse, Maltreatment, and Neglect in New York; References; Index |
| Summary |
Welcoming Strangers carefully analyzes the types of violence children in foster care suffer. It covers subjects as diverse as teens, sex, discipline, and the foster parents' own psychological well-being. Having cared for over 100 children over three decades, the authors describe the difficulties of foster care and the sometimes impossible task of restoring dignity and joy to young lives deeply damaged by violence. This book will be of immense help to foster parents, adopters, caseworkers, case managers, policy-makers, and any parent who wants to integrate nonviolence into their care of childre |
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Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Foster children -- United States
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Foster home care -- United States
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Abused children -- Services for -- United States
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Child welfare -- United States
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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Abused children -- Services for
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Child welfare
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Foster children
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Foster home care
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fitz-Gibbon, Andrew L., 1951- author.
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| ISBN |
9781412862264 |
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1412862264 |
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