Finding Families: An Ecological Approach to Family Assessment in AdoptionPresents a model of family assessment as a shared process which takes place between adoptive applicants and adoption workers, including a description of assessment tools that translate the ecological perspective into practice. |
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ABOUT THIS BOOK | 7 |
A Birds Eye View | 17 |
Getting Started | 23 |
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activities adopted child adoption agency adoption practice adoption worker adoptive applicants adoptive homes adoptive parents Armand Lauffer assessment process assessment tools Bill biological family BOUNDARY RANGES Charles Loring Brace Child Welfare children in need communication considered couple David demonstrate developed discussion Draw arrows EcoMap environment evaluation experience extended family family assessment family members family relationship system family rules family sculpture family system Family Therapy family's father feel FINDING FAMILIES foster foster care Frank and Mary group members grow hair Human Services identify important interest in adopting issues Janet lead living Lynn Nybell major Marge marriage Mary Scott mini-lecture mother moving toward congruence open adoption participants person placement potential adoptive family Project CRAFT relevance role arrangements sculpting session sexism shared sibship Social Casework social workers style tasks tend Theodore Lidz tion understanding University of Michigan Volume