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1. A GUIDEBOOK FOR RAISING FOSTER CHILDREN
www.adoptionbookcatalog.com/ca - [Cached]Published on: 9/25/2003 Last Visited: 8/24/2005
Susan McNair Blatt, M.D. is the Medical Director of the House of Good Sheperd, a child welfare agency, and is an Adjunct Professor at Utica College. -
2. A GUIDEBOOK FOR RAISING FOSTER CHILDREN
www.tapestrybooks.com/catalog/ - [Cached]Published on: 10/17/2002 Last Visited: 4/16/2006
Susan McNair Blatt, M.D. is the Medical Director of the House of Good Sheperd, a child welfare agency, and is an Adjunct Professor at Utica College. -
3. Community Health Center Management
www.chcm-mag.com/x0003-article - [Cached]Published on: 11/2/1999 Last Visited: 9/11/2000
Susan Blatt, MD, has just written a Guidebook for Raising Foster Children, which will be published next spring. Medical Director at the House of Good Shepherd in Utica, N.Y. a residential facility for disturbed adolescents with a large foster care population, she offers some very basic, practical advice. Noting that almost all foster children are raised in a troubled biological family, and that caseworkers are busy and usually have minimal input, Blatt says a foster child really is being raised by a village. We are the village - the doctor, school nurse, foster parent, neighbor, etc. Here is her advice. Teach the child to think about decisions and outcomes - i.e., if I brush my teeth, I will not get more cavities. Our own children absorb this ; these kids need to talk about it. Teach the children to seek help from others. If a foster child is in the hospital with asthma, suggest he have the nurse go over the use of an inhaler. If a foster child is waiting to see the doctor, ask the child if he knows why he be there. Coach him on ways to ask for help.
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Blatt also advises that since, in many cases, the plan is to reunify the child with his or her biological parents, it is important to involve those persons in all aspects of the child's health care.
