Welcoming Strangers - Nonviolent Re-Parenting of Children in Foster Care

Informationen zum Autor Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon, Andrew Fitz-Gibbon Klappentext Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon and Andrew Fitz-Gibbon have cared for more than 100 children in a foster care career spanning more than three decades. Zusammenfassung Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon and Andrew Fitz-Gibbon have cared for more than 100 children in a foster care career spanning more than three decades. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments A Note about Language Introduction: Welcoming Strangers 1 Responding to a Major Need 2 The Multiple Violences Suffered by Children in Care 3 Larger Houses, More Children 4 Thinking Further about Violence 5 Why Re-parenting? 6 Teens, Tantrums, Sex, and Substance Abuse 7 A Question of Ethics: How Shall We Live? 8 The Long Term: Permanence, Adoption, Returning Home, and Keeping in Touch 9 Spanking, Discipline, and Nonviolence 10 Loving Nonviolent Habits and Virtues 11 Second-Hand Shock Syndrome and Caring for Yourself 12 Praxis: Creating a Nonviolent Home with the Ordinariness of Love Addendum: Money Can't Buy Me Love Appendix: Definitions of Child Abuse, Maltreatment, and Neglect in New York References Index

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon Fitz-Gibbon, Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.05.2016
• EAN: 9781412862769
• ISBN: 978-1-4128-6276-9
• No. of pages: 166
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Adoption & Fostering, Adoption & fostering, Violence in society, Violence and abuse in society, Adoption and fostering