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Working With Families

Includes resources and links of interest to professionals providing or monitoring mental health treatment for families. Find information on specific diagnoses, assessing the needs of children, youth, and families in the child welfare system, obtaining treatment for families, treatment assessment and impact, support groups, and resources on secondary trauma for providers.

• Resources on specific diagnoses
• Assessing the needs of infants, toddlers, children, youth, parents, and caregivers
• Helping children, youth, and families obtain treatment
• Funding resources
• Impact of psychotropic medications
• Support services for children and families
• Secondary trauma for child welfare workers and professionals
• Related resources

	Promising Practices for Addressing the Mental Health Issues Impacting Parents of Children in Foster Care National Resource Center on Family-Centered Practice and Permanency Planning (2006) Includes an audio presentation from a teleconference on mental health issues pertaining to children in foster care.

Updated on April 9, 2008