Continuity and Orchestration of After-Care Services to Disturbed Children

Placing older children from a Residential Treatment Center into adoptive families can be a risky process. The after-care process becomes a very important part of the treatment, and requires a positive working relationship with the other agencies involved in the process. By using family systems concepts, and paying attention to the meaning that separation, loss and transition have for troubled children, the chances of success can be increased.