Trauma Responsive Child Welfare Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Setting the Stage

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction: Developing Trauma Sensitive Child Welfare Systems

      • Virginia C. Strand

      Pages 3-11

   3. Applying Trauma Theory to Agency Practice

      • Virginia C. Strand

      Pages 13-18

   4. Applying Trauma Theory to Organizational Culture

      • Virginia C. Strand

      Pages 19-40

   5. The Role of Cultural Competence in Trauma-Informed Agencies and Services

      • Vivian H. Jackson

      Pages 41-64

3. Creating Trauma-Informed Agency Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65

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   2. Culturally Relevant, Trauma-Informed Engagement Strategies for Child Welfare Workers: Moving Beyond Compliance to Engagement with Families Experiencing High Levels of Exposure to Trauma and Stress

      • Tricia Stephens, Geetha Gopalan, Mary C. Acri, Melissa Bowman, Mary McKernan McKay

      Pages 67-86

   3. System Change Designed to Increase Safety and Stabilization for Traumatized Children and Families: Trauma Systems Therapy

      • Adam D. Brown, Susan Hansen, Glenn N. Saxe

      Pages 87-104

   4. Use of a Structured Approach to Assessment Within Child Welfare: Applications of the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths-Trauma Comprehensive (CANS-Trauma)

      • Cassandra Kisiel, Elizabeth Torgersen, Lindsey E. G. Weil, Tracy Fehrenbach

      Pages 105-126

   5. Partners in Child Protection: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Assessment in Child Welfare

      • Adrienne Whitt-Woosley, Jessica Eslinger, Ginny Sprang

      Pages 127-146

   6. Introducing Evidence-Based Trauma Treatment in Preventive Services: Child-Parent Psychotherapy

      • Julie A. Larrieu

      Pages 147-164

   7. Working with Resource Parents for Trauma-Informed Foster Care

      • George S. Ake III, Kelly M. Sullivan

      Pages 165-179

   8. Addressing Birth Parent Trauma: Pathway to Reunification

      • Elizabeth A. Thompson

      Pages 181-199

   9. A Trauma-Informed Model for Supporting Pre-adoptive Placements

      • Jennifer Jorgenson, Jessica Strolin-Goltzman, Amy Bielawski-Branch, Janine Beaudry, Jill Richard

      Pages 201-215

4. Creating Trauma-Informed Agency Culture

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217

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   2. Using Implementation Science Principles to Sustain Trauma-Informed Innovations in Program Development

      • Virginia C. Strand, Cambria Rose Walsh

      Pages 219-230

   3. The Tale of Two Counties United by Their Pursuit of the Best Interest of Children Through Trauma-Informed Practice

      • James Henry, Amy Perricone

      Pages 231-244

   4. Trauma-Informed Organizational Readiness Assessment

      • Marciana Popescu, Virginia C. Strand

      Pages 245-259

   5. Organizational Assessment of Secondary Traumatic Stress: Utilizing the Secondary Traumatic Stress Informed Organizational Assessment Tool to Facilitate Organizational Learning and Change

      • Ginny Sprang

      Pages 261-270

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.

 

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. 

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.                

• Child Well-being
• Child Welfare Services
• Social Work Practice
• Child Welfare Agencies
• Trauma-informed Practice
• Child Protective Services
• Foster Care
• Adoption Services
• Social Work Interventions
• Adoption
• Implementation Science

• National Center for Social Work Trauma, Education and Workforce Development, Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service, West Harrison, USA

  Virginia C. Strand

• Department of Psychiatry, Center on Trauma and Children, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, USA

  Ginny Sprang

Virginia C. Strand, DSW, is Professor and Founding Director of Children FIRST, a research and training institute within the Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service. Her research interests are in child welfare and children’s mental health and she has published most recently in the areas trauma assessment for children and transfer of learning programs for child welfare workforce development. Currently, she is PI representing Fordham on a new federal institutive, the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute.

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.

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