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Self-Care for Foster Parents

By Creating a Family Staff

Parenting foster children who have come to your home from trauma, neglect or abuse is likely the hardest work you will ever do. It requires you to have a wide variety of tools in your parenting toolbox. Self-care for foster parents is one of the most important tools you can have in that toolbox.

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Virginia Satir Blended Family with a Troubled Boy Video

In this engaging video, Virginia Satir helps a blended family of four untangle longstanding parenting and communication issues.

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Virginia Satir
2015
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Helping Families to Change

With an emphasis on learning to change through other modalities than speech, this book discusses the importance of non-verbal body experience and awareness of kinetic cues in interpersonal relationships. A number of meditative exercises are included.

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Virgina Satir, James Stachowiak, Harvey Taschman
2011
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The New Peoplemaking

Revised and expanded seminal work on families, with more than a million copies sold in 12 languages. The New Peoplemaking expresses Satir's most evolved thoughts on self-worth, communication, family systems, and the ways in which people relate to one another.

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Virginia Satir
1988
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Foster Parenting