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The Development of Mental Health Consultation to a Foster Care Placement Agency
Author(s) -
Pearson Geraldine Sanner
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
public health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.471
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1525-1446
pISSN - 0737-1209
DOI - 10.1111/j.1525-1446.1984.tb00429.x
Subject(s) - referral , mental health , foster care , agency (philosophy) , nursing , medicine , psychiatry , psychology , family medicine , philosophy , epistemology
This paper describes the demographic data of latency‐aged foster children and the reasons for their placement away from birth parents. It also discusses the particular behavior and psychiatric problems that might precipitate referral to a mental health clinic. It then details a program developed to assess and treat those children having minimal involvement of foster or birth parents in their therapy. A consultation/collaboration model theorized by Caplan is applied to the program that developed. A case example is given and the roles of caseworker and mental health clinician are examined.