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Article: Rethinking foster care.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)

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Clinical Psychiatry News
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December 1, 2008
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I was pleased to see the recent examination of the foster care system in Clinical Psychiatry News ("Foster Care: Casey Program a Good Model," Prevention in Action, July 2008, p. 38). But I am also concerned that current approaches to improving the foster care system are somewhat shortsighted.

At present, I serve as medical director of a public clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., that is the medical home for children in foster care and nearby homeless shelters. Anyone even vaguely familiar with foster care understands that it is a revolving door, or worse, a trap door.

After being removed from often unstable, unsafe environments, many children and adolescents ...

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