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Strengthening Families and Communities: 2010 Resource Guide (Article)
"This Resource Guide was written to support service providers in their work with parents, caregivers, and their children to strengthen families and prevent child abuse and neglect. The guide includes information about protective factors that help reduce t...
Trauma, Attachment, and Family Therapy With Grandfamilies: A Model for Treatment (Article)
"Population estimates indicate that approximately 1.5 million children are in grandparent-headed households without any parents present. This type of grandfamily is often created when biological parents are unable or unwilling to care for their children. ...
Best Practices and Guidelines for the Use and Implementation of Therapeutic Interventions for Children and Young people in Out of Home Care (Article)
"This publication presents guidelines for providing therapeutic interventions for children in out of home care settings. It begins by explaining the traumatic experiences children in out of home care are more likely to have, concerns relating to the use a...
Parent Involvement Programs That Work (Article)
A publication produced by Child Trends looks into programs that truly work with parent involvement. Two factsheets describe what it takes for these programs for children and adolescents, in order to "identify the components and strategies associated with ...
Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families With Special-Needs Kids: A Guide for Parents and Professionals (Article)
"Many adopted children come to their adoptive families with emotional problems and attachment difficulties that developed as a result of mistreatment they experienced with their birth families or multiple moves within foster care. This book explains the t...

Recommended Mental Health Resources

Bipolar Disorder (Article)
Bipolar disorder (also known as manic depression) is an affective disorder that causes periodic mood swings in which they cycle from depression to mania....
Anxiety Disorders (Article)
Anxiety disorders affect a large number of people from all walks of life....
The Amen Clinics (Link)
Amen Clinics, Inc. is dedicated to optimizing the brain-life connection in our patients and people worldwide, and to utilizing the latest medical advances in the treatment of psychiatric disease. Our goal is to remain the world's premier brain imaging cen...
Depression (Article)
Depression is very common but sometimes people do not realize that they are dealing with an illness....
Positive Behavioral Support in the Home and Community: A Bibliography for Families (File)
NICHCY receives hundreds of requests for information about ways to address the challenging behaviors of children with disabilities. We have compiled this bibliography to help families identify the many materials available on the subject of problem be...