title: Facilitating visitation for infants with prenatal substance exposure.
abstract: Permanency planning for infants with prenatal substance exposure is challenging due to characteristics of the infants and the ongoing substance use or relapse of the parents. Visitation is a primary mechanism through which child welfare workers determine and support permanency planning. Productive use of visitation for permanency planning for infants with prenatal substance exposure is described, along with strategies for skillfully focusing visits on issues and needs relevant to this population.
authors.affiliation: School of Social Work, University of Maryland, 525 West Redwood Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA. cburry@ssw.umaryland.edu
authors.forename: Caroline Long
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Burry
authors.forename: Lois
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wright
mesh_terms: D016241:Child of Impaired Parents; D003657:Decision Making; D005581:Foster Home Care; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009357:Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting; D012947:Social Work / Q000379:methods*; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States