In Monday’s blog, I explained the need to provide counselling for children who are placed in family-based alternative care. This is needed regardless of whether they came from an institution, whether they had to be removed from their family for their safety, or whether they lost their parents and have no other relatives. All these scenarios provide children with a traumatic background, and if they are not provided with counselling to help them deal with this, the chance of their placement in a family working becomes much smaller.
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The Need for Counselling
Too often children who are placed in alternative care, or children who have been moved from an institution to a family – whether it be their own or a new one – are not provided with any counselling. This is a big problem and can even cause a ‘placement break-down’. Meaning it turns out not to be possible any longer for a child to stay in the family she was placed in – even if it was her own – because of emotional and behavioural problems.
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