Meredith Beck
CDHS: The effects of Visitation Enrichment on emotional and behavioral regulation in children in foster care placement.
Keywords: foster care, foster children, narrative construction, narrative skills, story work, emotional regulation, behavioral regulation, attachment theory, attachment research, listening skills with children, parallel talk with children, tracking skills with children, visitation enrichment.
Keyword / Source / Summary of Content / PagesStory work, listening skills with children, emotional regulation / Sunderland, M. (2000). Using Story Telling as a Therapeutic Tool with Children. Oxon, UK: Winslow Press. / · Benefits of expressing emotion through story
o Trauma related issues
· Listening skills during storytelling
o Empathic responses while staying within the metaphor / 35-36
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Narrative construction, narrative skills / Crossley, M. (2000). Introducing Narrative Psychology. Philadelphia, PA: Open University Press. / · Development of a sense of self
· Narrative defined
· Narrative as a construction of meaning
o Re-authoring (as with trauma)
· With child sexual abuse
o Case study
· With terminal illness (adult) / 13
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Narrative skills, foster care, foster care children, story work / Ziegler, R. (1992). Homeade Books to Help Kids Cope. Washington, DC: Magination Press. / · Techniques
o Drawing, scrapbook, computer
· Life reviews
· Adoption / 25-27
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Listening skills with children, parallel talk with children, tracking skills with children, story work / Brohl, K. (1996). Working with Traumatized Children. A Handbook for Healing. Washington, DC: CWLA Press. / · Integration stage PTSD recovery
o Engaging in discussion about trauma
o Reinforce positive change
· Metaphorical Storytelling
o Gathering information / 37-43
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Narrative construction, narrative skills / Abbott, H.P. (2002). The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. / · Narrative discourse as a way of reconstructing stories
· Narrative defined / 15
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Attachment research, attachment theory, emotional regulation / Siegel, D. (1999). The Developing Mind. Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal Experience. New York, NY: Guilford Press. / ·
· Attachment issues
o Significance as related to mental health
· Brain development as related to experience
· Attachment as related to self organization
o Functioning as related to experience
· Emotional regulation
o Related parenting
o Relationships and affect / 116-193-196
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Narrative skills, story work / Smith, C. & Nylund, D. (1997). Narrative Therapies with Children and Adolescents. New York, NY: Guilford Press. / · Narratives as family support
· Lists as a way of tracking experience
· Narrative work as related to children
o Not interpreting, allowing tangents
· Language based learning difficulties
o Focus on positives
· Remembering memory / 111-116
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Narrative construction, narrative skills, story work / Kwee, M. (2000). Constructivism and the clinical practice of narrative rebiographing. Constructivism in the Human Sciences, 5 (2), 133-151. / · Narrative psychology defined
· Healing self-narrative
· Autobiography (as homework)
· Collaboration on life history
· Narrative/cognitive restructuring: process / 135
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Foster care, foster children, emotional regulation, behavioral regulation, attachment research / American Academy of Pediatrics. (2000). Developmental Issues for Young Children in Foster Care. Pediatrics, 106 (5), 1145-1150. / · During the first 3-4 years of life, brain structures that govern personality, learning, coping, emotions are established
· Nerve connections and neurotransmitters are influenced by negative environmental conditions
o Lack of stimulation, child abuse, violence
· Emotional and cognitive disruptions in early life have potential to impair brain development
· Attachment to a primary caregiver is essential to the development of emotional security and conscience
· Separation in the first year, if followed by quality care thereafter, may not have deleterious effect / 1145
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Narrative construction, story work, / McLean, Kate. (2005). Late Adolescent Identity Development: Narrative Meaning Making and Memory Telling. Developmental Psychology, 41 (4), 683-691. / · Life stories serve to make sense of one’s past, present, and anticipated future
· Participants were late adolescents and undergoing the transition to college
o Integrate new surroundings and communicate who they are in the new environment
· Lesson learning, Gaining insight: skills
· Autobiographical memory / 683
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Narrative skills, Story Work / Yancy, G., Hadley, S. (2005). Narrative Identities: Psychologists Engaged in Self-Construction. Jessica Kingsley Publishers: Philadelphia. / · Narrative Therapy
o Family of origin shapes our lived experiences
· Life story work
o Identity as defined by experiences / 85-87
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Foster care, Foster care children, Attachment theory, Attachment research, Emotional Regulation / Fahlberg, V. (1991). A Child’s Journey Through Placement. Perspective’s Press: Indianapolis. / · Behavior problems with children in foster care
o Lack of attachment
o Inappropriate expression of feelings
o Unresolved separation issues / 285-
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Foster care, behavioral regulation, emotional regulation / McNair Blatt, S. (2000). A Guidebook for Raising Foster Children. Bergin & Garvey: Connecticut. / · Basic information on foster care
· With regard to the biological family
· Building self-esteem
· Moral Development
· Thinking back over life - restructuring / 1-13
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Attachment theory, Attachment research, Foster care children, skills for working with foster care children / Hughes, D. (1997). Facilitating Developmental Attachment: The Road to Emotional Recovery and Behavioral Change in Foster and Adopted Children. Jason Aronson, Inc.: New Jersey. / ·
· Attachment theory and research
o Trauma, neglect
· Therapists with foster children, adopted
o Skills: e.g. affective attunement, psychodrama
o Reframing
o Feelings, thoughts, behaviors / 11-25
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Visitation enrichment, foster care, narrative skills, narrative construction, listening skills with children, emotional regulation / Mayers Pasztor, E.; Leighton, M. (1993). Homeworks # 1: At Home Training Resources for Foster Parents and Adoptive Parents. Helping Children and Youths Manage Separation and Loss. Child Welfare League of America: Washington. / · Pathway through the grieving process
o Self-esteem, understanding, coping, managing loss
o Normalizing loss as a part of life, while validating emotional experiences
o Loss History Worksheet / 13-58
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Attachment theory, listening skills with children, visitation enrichment, emotional regulation / Mayers Pasztor, E.; Leighton, M. (1993). Homeworks # 2: At Home Training Resources for Foster Parents and Adoptive Parents. Helping Children and Youths Develop Positive Attachments. Child Welfare League of America: Washington. / · Attachment exercise (define, explore)
· Building and maintaining attachments
o Self-esteem, self-awareness / 10-14
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