Treating Families and Children in the Child Protective System: Strategies for Systemic Advocacy and Family Healing (Family Therapy and Counseling, 4)

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Series Editor’s Foreword......Page 11
Foreword......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
NOTE......Page 19
CHAPTER 1 Turning Points......Page 20
NOTES......Page 29
EARLY THINKING IN FAMILY INJUSTICE......Page 32
SYSTEMS AND THE THERAPIST AS ADVOCATE......Page 34
SOCIAL ACTION AND STRATEGIC HUMANISM......Page 36
RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AND THE FAMILY THERAPIST......Page 38
CONCLUSION: AN APPROACH IN CONTEXT......Page 40
NOTES......Page 41
CHAPTER 3 Curative Factors and Obstacles to Change......Page 42
PERSONAL INFLUENCE......Page 43
The Dangerously Powerless Therapist......Page 44
Value-Free Therapy......Page 46
Enacting Benevolent Power......Page 51
The Paradox of Power in Larger System Interventions......Page 53
THE BELIEF IN FREEWILL......Page 54
Psychobiology......Page 55
Diagnosis......Page 59
Environment......Page 60
The System......Page 61
UTILIZATION......Page 62
Utilization of the Past......Page 63
Self-Utilization......Page 64
Countertransference......Page 66
Friend or Phobe?: Critical Optimism and Family Nature......Page 67
The Problem of Constructivism......Page 69
CONTEXTUAL CHANGE......Page 70
Circularity in the Misunderstanding of Family Context......Page 71
The Outplacement of Children......Page 73
NOTES......Page 78
CHAPTER 4 Contrition, Forgiveness, and the Restoration of Justice......Page 80
LEVEL 1: ISOLATED......Page 82
LEVEL 2: ARTIFICIAL......Page 85
LEVEL 3: ILLUSORY......Page 89
LEVEL 4: SYMBOLIC......Page 92
LEVEL 5: SUBSTITUTE......Page 95
LEVEL 6: THE COMPLETE CONTRITION PROCESS......Page 98
Estimating “Readiness” and Treatment Length......Page 99
Didactic on Forgiveness......Page 101
Openness and Honesty: Evaluation and Practice......Page 102
Defining the Offense as a Spiritual Pain and Injustice......Page 103
Defining the Offender as Experiencing a Spiritual Pain......Page 104
The Ritual of Apology and Repentance......Page 105
Reparation as the Enactment of Apology......Page 106
Consequences and the Safety Plan......Page 107
Recontextualizing the Offense......Page 108
Restoring the Offender......Page 109
NOTES......Page 110
LEIA AND THE TERRIBLE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCE......Page 112
Ask Him......Page 113
I Give to You from My Spirit......Page 116
The Humungous Box......Page 121
TO HEAL ME ALSO: JUSTIN’S CASE......Page 122
The Puppetmaster......Page 124
No Piece of Cake......Page 125
What Really Hurt......Page 128
A Sign of Meaningfulness......Page 132
A Long, Winding, Bumpy Road......Page 134
NOTES......Page 137
CHAPTER 6 I Never Heard You Cry Before......Page 140
WHAT HURT WORSE......Page 141
TO FAIL AT FAILING......Page 144
LOOKING INTO THE EYES OF YOUR DAUGHTER......Page 147
CHAPTER 7 Navigating the Child Protective System......Page 158
Attorneys......Page 159
The Judge......Page 161
CASAs......Page 162
Caseworkers......Page 164
The Power of Information......Page 165
Supply and Demand......Page 166
Missionaries......Page 168
The Innkeeper......Page 169
The Professional......Page 170
The Civilians......Page 172
Kinship Placements......Page 173
Group Homes......Page 174
Adoptive Homes......Page 175
THE FUNDAMENTAL FLAW......Page 179
A TALE OF TWO PLACEMENTS......Page 180
CONCLUSION: THE BABY AND THE BATHWATER......Page 181
NOTES......Page 182
THERAPIST OR EVALUATOR......Page 184
Witnesses: Fact, Expert, and Expert Treater......Page 185
A HIERARCHY OF PRIORITIES......Page 186
The Family......Page 187
The Nonoffending Family Members......Page 188
Society......Page 189
LEVELS OF FAMILY RECONSTRUCTION......Page 190
Reconciliation......Page 191
Reintegration......Page 192
TESTING AND EVALUATION......Page 193
Category 1. Formal Evaluation......Page 195
Category 2. Semiformal Evaluation......Page 196
Category 3. Informal Evaluation......Page 197
WORKING WITH THE CPS “TEAM”......Page 198
Overt Suppression of Dissent......Page 199
CONCLUSION: BEST INTERESTS, BEST PRACTICES, AND BEST OUTLOOK......Page 200
NOTES......Page 202
CHAPTER 9 Tracks and Strategies in the Foster Care Crisis......Page 204
THE PYGMALION COMPLEX......Page 205
THE RANSOM OF RED CHIEF......Page 206
THE STOCKHOLM SYNDROME......Page 208
THE UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER......Page 209
WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS: AGING OUT......Page 211
CONCLUSION: FOSTER CARE AND THE JOURNEY TOWARD JUSTICE......Page 213
NOTE......Page 214
CHAPTER 10 You Can’t Fight the System......Page 216
RED CHIEF EMERGES......Page 219
CAPITULATION AND REDEMPTION......Page 220
RISK AND REUNIFICATION......Page 227
NOTE......Page 228
CHAPTER 11 Defending September......Page 230
INTO THE FRAY......Page 231
THE LABYRINTH......Page 234
IN EXILE......Page 243
DEAD ENDS AND DEADBEATS......Page 250
TODAY WELL LIVED......Page 255
NOTES......Page 257
THE KANSAS CITY PROJECT......Page 258
OVERVIEW......Page 260
TOWARD A PARADIGM SHIFT......Page 262
INTEGRATING AND EVOLVING THE CONTRITION MODEL......Page 264
CASE EXAMPLES......Page 271
CONCLUSION: A PROGRAM CHANGED......Page 274
CHAPTER 13 Epilogue......Page 276
NOTE......Page 281
References......Page 282
Index......Page 288