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- Title
Implications of Parental Mental Illness for the Foster Care Caseworker.
- Authors
Meier, Elizabeth G.
- Abstract
The author examines tasks of foster care caseworker for a child who has a mentally ill parent. One, he must find out what the child experienced on the day that the mother was hospitalized. Next, it is his task to know with as much as accuracy as possible what kinds of experience a child has had up to that point. A caseworker also should know what kinds of distorted perceptions about people and things the mother has communicated to the child. Another task is that of helping the child comprehend some aspects of his mother's illness and helping him deal with some of his feelings about the illness.
- Subjects
FOSTER home care; SOCIAL workers; CHILD care; CHILD welfare; CHILD services; PARENTS with intellectual disabilities; PSYCHIATRIC hospital care; MENTAL health; SOCIAL services
- Publication
Child Welfare, 1965, Vol 44, Issue 6, p316
- ISSN
0009-4021
- Publication type
Article