Part of Strategies for Foster and Group Home Care Trilogy

From the moment an individual assumes a position as a private agency caseworker he or she takes on an enormous amount of personal responsibility and liability. Effective private-agency casework requires that a worker quickly develop fronline child care job skills and meld these into a personal system. It is rewarding, exhilarating, disheartening, and exhausting work - sometimes all in one day - but it is seldom boring.

This handbook will help train the private-agency caseworker who is constantly on the move and adapting to the challenges presented by the dynamics of the childcare system. Each chapter is designed to give the reader an overview of critical elements of private agency casework, effective strategies in problem solving, and case examples that highlight the content area being discussed.

127 pgs.