Trauma Responsive Child Welfare Systems

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<p>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.</p> <p> </p> <p>Among the topics covered:</p><ul><li>Trauma-informed family engagement with resistant clients.</li><li>Introducing evidence-based trauma treatment in preventive services.<br/></li><li>Working with resource parents for trauma-informed foster care.<br/></li><li>Use of implementation science principles in program development for sustainability.<br/></li><li>Trauma informed and secondary traumatic stress informed organizational readiness assessments.<br/></li><li>Caseworker training for trauma practice and building worker resiliency. </li></ul><p></p> <p><i>Trauma Responsive Child Welfare Systems</i> 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.                </p>