Editors:
Offers a robust framework for introducing and sustaining trauma-responsive services and culture in child welfare systems
Targets psychology professionals, social workers, and mental health professionals applying trauma theory and trauma-informed family engagement to clinical practice
Addresses the staffing, training, planning and implementation necessary to develop a competent and committed workforce
Focuses on concepts of safety, permanency, and well-being
Explores innovations in child protection, violence prevention, foster care, and adoption services
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Creating Trauma-Informed Agency Practice
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Front Matter
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Creating Trauma-Informed Agency Culture
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About this book
This comprehensive reference offers a robust framework for introducing and sustaining trauma-responsive services and culture in child welfare systems. Organized around concepts of safety, permanency, and well-being, chapters describe innovations in child protection, violence prevention, foster care, and adoption services to reduce immediate effects of trauma on children and improve long-term development and maturation. Foundations and interventions for practice include collaborations with families and community entities, cultural competency, trauma-responsive assessment and treatment, promoting trauma-informed parenting, and, when appropriate, working toward reunification of families. The book’s chapters on agency culture also address staffing, supervisory, and training issues, planning and implementation, and developing a competent, committed, and sturdy workforce.
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Among the topics covered:
- Trauma-informed family engagement with resistant clients.
- Introducing evidence-based trauma treatment in preventive services.
- Working with resource parents for trauma-informed foster care.
- Use of implementation science principles in program development for sustainability.
- Trauma informed and secondary traumatic stress informed organizational readiness assessments.
- Caseworker training for trauma practice and building worker resiliency.Â
Trauma Responsive Child Welfare Systems ably assists psychology professionals of varied disciplines, social workers, and mental health professionals applying trauma theory and trauma-informed family engagement to clinical practice and/or research seeking to gain strategies for creating trauma-informed agency practice and agency culture. It also makes a worthwhile text for a child welfare training curriculum.        Â
Editors and Affiliations
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National Center for Social Work Trauma, Education and Workforce Development, Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service, West Harrison, USA
Virginia C. Strand
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Department of Psychiatry, Center on Trauma and Children, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, USA
Ginny Sprang
About the editors
Ginny Sprang, PhD, is a Professor in the College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Sprang is a Principal Investigator and Executive Director of the Center on Trauma and Children at the University of Kentucky. She has served as a member of the National Steering Committee of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) , is the current Co-Chair of the Secondary Traumatic Stress Committee, and is the Chair of the Terrorism and Disaster Special Interest Group of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Her scholarship focuses on the clinical, forensic, and empirical aspects of traumatic stress and the efficacy and effectiveness of treatments to address the biopsychosocial impact of violence against children. Dr. Sprang has published extensively in the leading journals focusing on trauma, maltreatment, and treatment efficacy in adults and children.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Trauma Responsive Child Welfare Systems
Editors: Virginia C. Strand, Ginny Sprang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64602-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64601-5Published: 06 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87832-4Published: 22 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64602-2Published: 24 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 349
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Work, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Public Health