Helping professionals working with a child who is victim of neglect and abuse typically expect that foster care placement will signify the end of the prolonged experience of trauma. For foster children themselves, however, foster care placement itself may represent a new experience of trauma. . Beyond the promise of a new beginning, the journey through foster care is not always what it seems. For many children, foster care placement is scary. It entails hard work, periods of ambiguity, and sometimes brings about unwelcome lessons. Unquestionably, foster home placement is a journey that no child should have to endure alone. It takes a concerted effort on the part of many to help a foster child realize the hope that we have for him or her. School counselors can play a critical role in orchestrating a circle of support around foster children.

Most parents consider their children a joyous part of life, but some children are less fortunate-including those who are abused and neglected within the foster/group-home care system. They are taken from abuse and neglect and sometimes delivered into more abuse and neglect. They are "an

Hochstadt, N. J., Jaudes, P. K., Zimo, D. A., & Schachter, J. (1987). The medical and

Ayasse, R. H. (1995). Addressing the needs of foster children: The foster youth services

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