Setting the standard for effective care, this book is a definitive guide to foster parenting.

Rebuilding Children's Lives is written specifically for foster parents caring for children who have behavioral problems, who are learning disabled, have suffered abuse, or have been diagnosed with psychiatric problems. Packed with information, the book offers step-by-step strategies and useful suggestions that enable foster parents to provide quality, loving care.

The book outlines how to build meaningful relationships with foster children, teach them valuable life skills to overcome negative behaviors, meet their emotional needs, develop individualized treatment plans, and provide a safe home. Special emphasis is given to unique challenges such as working with the child's biological family, cultural differences, and issues of separation and attachment.

Encyclopedic in scope, Rebuilding Children's Lives is an invaluable guide no foster parent or foster care professional should be without.

294 pp.