Description - Building a Home within by Toni Vaughn Heineman
The Children's Psychotherapy Project (CPP), the primary program of the non-profit organization A Home Within, offers pro bono psychotherapy to foster children and adolescents. Clinicians donate one hour a week for individual therapy sessions with a child for as long as that child needs treatment. This "one child, one therapist, for as long as it takes" concept is designed to build stability and trust with children who are often in need of long-term relationships. This volume describes CPP's work during the ten years since its development. Introductory chapters describe the program, how it expanded into eight chapters in the United States, and the research findings from the program's work. The book's second section focuses on various aspects of foster care and how therapists can assist in these situations. Chapters address preschool children in foster care, reunification with parents, parenting by grandparents, and the end of foster care at age eighteen. The final section discusses CPP and foster care in the greater context of society. Foster care in the news, foster children and health services, and foster children and the educational system are all covered.
Other chapters discuss the effects of therapists working without fees, the neuropsychological effects of foster care on children, and the need for public and private forces to work together to serve children and their families.
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