Re: hostility between CPS workers and their clients

[Vincent Fish <vfish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Dorinda--Your friend might check out _Working with Families of the
Poor_, by Patricia Minuchin, Jorge Colapinto, & Salvador Minuchin (1998; New
York: Guilford). This group, along with some other authors, also has
published a training manual for foster parents that emphasizes engaging with
the birth parents of kids in placement. Marion Lindblad-Goldberg and some of
her colleagues at Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic have recently come out
with a book on working with families who are in the system that might be
worth a look, too. (Sorry I can't locate the name of it just now.) If your
friend were interested in contacting any of these folks, Marion and her
group, as I noted, are in Philadelphia; I believe the Minuchins are in
Boston and Colapinto is at the Foster Care Project of the Ackerman Institute
in New York City.
Best, Vince

At 01:02 PM 5/6/99 EDT, you wrote:
>I am helping a Social Worker friend of mine locate information regarding
hostility between CPS workers and their clients.  She would like to do an
inservice on dealing with clients who refuse to do what is necessary to
regain custody of their children, do the work but are very hostile toward
their workers, put up walls between themselves and their worker, etc.
>
>Are there any resources/references I can direct her to?  Thanks in advance
for your help.
>
>Dorinda Washer,
>Project Assistant for the Parents In Distress Program, DHMC
>e-mail:  Dorinda.B.Washer@Dartmouth.edu





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