Working With Custodial Grandparents

Moving beyond simply describing the difference between custodial and noncustodial grandparents, this volume places helping efforts with grandparents in theoretical, empirical, and pragmatic contexts. Stressing the importance of theoretically grounded interventions and empirically-based studies for design, implementation, and funding of programs, the chapters define an "action-oriented" approach toward changing the lives of grandparents and their grandchildren. CONTENTS: Part I: Theoretical Perspective on Custodial Grandparents - Custodial Grandparenting Viewed From Within a Life-Span Perspective - Links Between Custodial Grandparents and the Psychological Adaptation of Grandchildren - An Integrative Assessment Model as a Means of Intervention With the Grandparents Caregiver Part II: Empirical Studies of Helping Efforts With Grandparent Caregivers - Grandparent Caregivers to Children With Developmental Disabilities - Why Support Groups Help: Successful Interventions for Grandparent Caregivers of Children With Developemental Disabilities Part III: The Pragmatics of Working With Grandparents Raisingn Their Children - Grandparents Who Are Parenting Again: Building Skills - Group Process Among Grandparents Raising Children - Strategies for Solving Everyday Problems Faced By GrandparentsHayslip, Bert, Jr. is the author of 'Working With Custodial Grandparents', published 2002 under ISBN 9780826116840 and ISBN 0826116841.