This comprehensive reference offers a robust framework for introducing and sustaining
trauma-responsive services and culture in child welfare systems. Organized around concepts of
safety permanency and well-being chapters describe innovations in child protection violence
prevention foster care and adoption services to reduce immediate effects of trauma on
children and improve long-term development and maturation. Foundations and interventions for
practice include collaborations with families and community entities cultural competency
trauma-responsive assessment and treatment promoting trauma-informed parenting and when
appropriate working toward reunification of families. The book's chapters on agency culture
also address staffing supervisory and training issues planning and implementation and
developing a competent committed and sturdy workforce. Among the topics
covered:Trauma-informed family engagement with resistant clients.Introducing evidence-based
trauma treatment in preventive services.Working with resource parents for trauma-informed
foster care.Use of implementation science principles in program development for
sustainability.Trauma informed and secondary traumatic stress informed organizational readiness
assessments.Caseworker training for trauma practice and building worker resiliency.Trauma
Responsive Child Welfare Systems ably assists psychology professionals of varied disciplines
social workers and mental health professionals applying trauma theory and trauma-informed
family engagement to clinical practice and or research seeking to gain strategies for creating
trauma-informed agency practice and agency culture. It also makes a worthwhile text for a child
welfare training curriculum.
