Child Placement Through Clinically Oriented Casework

Selective Campaigning for Foster Homes: An Empirical View

“…It is consistent with findings reported in the literature that altruistic motives characterize the most adequate foster parents (Etri, 1959;Murphy, 1964;Colvin, 1962;Kinter and Otto, 1964;Dick, 1961) and self-centred motives the least adequate ones (Babcock, 1965;Colvin, 1962;Fanshel, 1966;Etri, 1959). The model confirms also the unreality of the clinical type of assessment, in which it is common to regard altruistic motives for fostering as "neurotic" and therefore suspect (Kline and Overstreet, 1959;Glickman, 1957).…”

A mental health intervention for rural, foster children from methamphetamine-involved families: Experimental assessment with qualitative elaboration

“…Since the 1950s, child welfare professionals have used “life books” with children in foster care or preparing for adoption (Glickman, 1957). Co-created by the child and child welfare worker, the books encompass important life events and the child’s feelings about those events.…”

Healing Traumatized Children: Creating Illustrated Storybooks in Family Therapy*

“…Substitute‐care workers preparing children for fostering or adoption have used “life books” since the 1950s (Glickman, 1957). A life book is an individually made book put together by the child and worker, covering the child's life from birth to the present, and includes a written narrative of events in the child's life and the child's feelings about events (Aust, 1981; Beste, 1981; Chema, 1970; Connor, Sclare, Dunbar, & Elliffee, 1985; Elbow, 1987; Glickman, 1957). Books are usually commercial photo albums or scrapbooks, which also incorporate photos, drawings, report cards, awards, letters from previous caregivers, a birth certificate and anything else the child may want to include (Glickman, 1957).…”

“…A life book is an individually made book put together by the child and worker, covering the child's life from birth to the present, and includes a written narrative of events in the child's life and the child's feelings about events (Aust, 1981; Beste, 1981; Chema, 1970; Connor, Sclare, Dunbar, & Elliffee, 1985; Elbow, 1987; Glickman, 1957). Books are usually commercial photo albums or scrapbooks, which also incorporate photos, drawings, report cards, awards, letters from previous caregivers, a birth certificate and anything else the child may want to include (Glickman, 1957). Only in the 1970s did the concept of the “life book” begin to be discussed in the adoption literature as a specific therapeutic tool used to help foster/adopted children order their experiences, resolve the loss of caregivers, explore reasons for separations from birth families, articulate feelings associated with traumatic life events, and increase children's sense of self‐worth (Backhaus, 1984; Biggert, 1978; Chema, 1970; Jewitt, 1978; Jones, 1979; Kadushin, 1970; Neilson, 1972; Sharrar, 1970; Wheeler, 1978).…”