Helping the Family: Psychology of Decisions and Changes

Based on extensive personal practice, the authors (employees of the Institute of Integrative Family Therapy) describe a systematic approach to the psychology of the host family, a variety of opportunities for the development of forms of family-based orphans and children who are left without parental care. Special attention is paid to the survey of potential adoptive parents, the algorithm for making a decision on the possible removal of a child from the family, the ratio of blood and replacement families in the life of the child. The ability to combine the efforts of specialists of various profiles to preserve the blood family are described. The book is designed for all those interested in the psychology of the family as a whole and the host (replacement) family in particular. Its materials can be used as a practical allowance for employees of guardianship bodies, psychologists and social workers, whose attention has difficult children and complex situations in blood or replacement families