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Questions & Activities for The Star: A Handbook for Foster Parents

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This handbook is a must for adults who wish to ease a child's transition into a foster care situation. It is user friendly and provides tools that caregivers can use to help nurture the bond between themselves and foster children. The workbook is short. It isn't intimidating. It provides questions about the story, THE STAR, that foster parents and professionals can use to indirectly gain more understanding of the foster child's experience. It also includes fun activities for both children and adults that can help break the ice.

Foster parents may be unpleasantly surprised by foster children's hesitancy to get close to them. This booklet can serve as a guide to help adults to effectively help each unique child. The beauty of this book is that the author is an experienced foster parent (in addition to being educated in psychology and pediatric nursing). Her experience in working with children, who have been deeply wounded, helps her to effectively relate to the unique issues that foster parents and pediatric professionals may face. The big bonus is that a pediatric psychologist co-authored the workbook. The person who reads this short book is truly receiving sound information. This is a quality product and a must for people who work with children.