Walk a Mile in My Shoes: A Book about Biological Parents for Foster Parents and Social Workers

by Judith A.B. Lee

This book can help foster parents and caseworkers get into the shoes of birthparents. Foster parents may use it as a self-help guide. Case workers will find it helps attune them to the tasks both foster parents and birthparents face. Agencies will find it especially effective for use in the separate and joint training of caseworkers and foster parents and for use by teachers and students in learning about birthfamilies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878683496
• ISBN13: 9780878683499
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America)
• Length: 87 Pages
• Weight: 6.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

For social workers and for foster parents

The collaboration of experienced social workers Judith Lee and Danielle Nisivoccia, Walk A Mile In My Shoes: A Book About Biological Parents For Foster Parents And Social Workers is a powerful, meaningful, 85-page treatise on understanding the feelings of biological parents and their children when children must be transferred to foster care. A "user friendly" guidebook to easing the transition and helping all parties understand one another better, Walk A Mile In My Shoes is highly recommended both for social workers and for foster parents engaged in a necessary, difficult and sometimes painful process.