Foster mother state of mind and treatment use: Different challenges for different people

✍ Scribed by Mary Dozier; Sandra Sepulveda

• Book ID: 102279151
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 137 KB
• Volume: 25
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0163-9641
• DOI: 10.1002/imhj.20011

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

On the basis of our research findings from the last 10 years, we have developed a training program for foster parents that targets three critical needs for infants in foster care. This treatment program has now been manualized to allow dissemination to other sites. With our intervention as well as any other, we see it as critical to tailor services to the needs of individual clients rather than adhering in doctrinaire fashion to the manual. In particular, we suggest that attending to foster parents' state of mind with regard to attachment is vital to providing an effective treatment. In this article, we present examples of foster parents with different states of mind and describe how treatment is tailored to meet their individual needs.