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Home > Substitute Care Providers: Helping Abused and Neglected Children > Substitute Care Providers: Helping Abused and Neglected Children : Glossary Of Terms
Substitute Care Providers: Helping Abused and Neglected Children
Glossary Of TermsAdoption – meeting the developmental needs of a child by legally transferring ongoing parental responsibilities for that child from birth parents to adoptive parents, recognizing that a new kinship network is created by the process that forever links the two families together through the child who is shared by both. Adoptive Parents – adults who legally become parents of a child who was not born to them. Attachment – an emotional connection between people based on their significant meaning to and affection for each other. Birth Families – families to which children are related as a result of being born into them. Birth Parents – parents who conceive and give birth to a child, whatever their future relationship may be to that child. Case Management – helping clients identify, access, and coordinate community services that match their needs. Child Sexual Abuse – activity or interaction whereby the intent is to arouse and/or control a child sexually. Extended Family – those who are "related" to members of a nuclear family, such as the grandparents or aunts and uncles of a child (see also Kinship Network). Family Foster Care – a means of temporarily meeting the developmental needs of a child by providing him/her with substitute family care for a period of time when neither the child's birth parents nor biological extended family can meet the child's needs. Family of Origin – a person's parents and siblings by birth. Family Preservation Services – social services intended to keep families together when the children are at imminent risk of removal. Usually such services are crisis oriented, short term, and offered in the home on an on-call basis. Family Reunification – reestablishing a birth family by returning children who have been in substitute care. Family Sculpture – the end result of a nonverbal technique that encourages family members to arrange themselves in a way that reveals their perceptions and feelings toward each other. Foster Care – taking care of children and meeting their developmental needs outside of their own families on a short-term basis and without legally transferring full parenting responsibilities. Foster Parents – those who assume, usually for a limited period of time, the day-to-day care of a child not born to them and for whom they do not have full legal parental rights. Incest – sexual involvement between immediate family members (or between a child and the paramour of the child's mother). Kinship Care – a form of foster care in which members of a child's extended birth family formally become his/her foster parents (also called Relative Foster Care). Kinship Network – the group of people one considers one's "relatives." Relatives are defined on the basis of blood ties, legal action, function, or mutual affection and agreement. The boundaries of such a network are flexibly determined by law, culture, and individual choice. Life Book – a scrapbook for children in substitute care that includes pictures, letters, documents, or other memorabilia. Medically Fragile Children – children born vulnerable as a result of genetic or congenital difficulties or poor prenatal care, or who develop illnesses that necessitate special medical observation or care to assure their continued well-being. Network – a number of people or organizations that are interconnected because of a common history, affectional tie, or agenda. Open Adoption – an adoption is which there is a planned opportunity for contact between the birth family and the adoptive family. The contact may range along a continuum from an exchange of written information at the time of placement to regular, ongoing face-to-face contact between the two families throughout the child's lifetime. Permanency Planning – an attempt to provide stability for children coming into substitute care by anchoring them in a family that can provide continuity to their care. Reciprocity – mutual give and take in a relationship that respects the importance of both parties in meeting the needs of the other. Sexual Abuse (see Child Sexual Abuse). Special Needs Children – those children, who because of genetic, prenatal, birth, or developmental difficulties; age; membership in a sibling group that must stay together; or other limiting circumstances, present an additional challenge to prospective substitute parents. Substitute Care – a means of meeting a child's daily caretaking and developmental needs outside of his/her home. Substitute Parents – adults who agree to provide substitute care for a child in their homes, either formally or informally and on a temporary or long-term basis. System – a group of similar items, ideas, or people that are interrelated to form a new entity that is greater than the sum of the component parts and that acts according to a set of principles that maintain its function, boundaries, and integrity. Systemic Family Sexual Abuse – child sexual abuse within a family that is usually initiated or encouraged by the parents and involves multiple abusers. Team – two or more people who have identified a common goal and have agreed to work together to achieve that goal.
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