–Author of Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Fun Games and Physical Activities to Help Heal Children Who Hurt: Get on Your Feet! https://infamilyservices.com/books-author-fun-games-child/
–Mentored with Judith Bluestone, creator of the HANDLE Approach, a systems-based approach to better neuro-behavioral development. Translated her approach with helping neuro-behaviorally challenged children along the autistic spectrum to helping chronically stressed, fetal alcohol and drug-affected children along the developmental PTSD spectrum. The challenges for this population and some neuro-behavioral habilitative home therapies are outlined in Beth’s book above.
–Authored four stories included in The Kinship Parenting Toolbox, an EMK Press book for caregivers of children in fictive, relative and kinship placement. https://www.amazon.com/Kinship-Parenting-Toolbox-Kim-Phagan-Hansel/dp/0972624473
–Author of several Fostering Families Today and Adoption Today published articles https://infamilyservices.com/magazine-articles-2/
–Founding Board Member of Angel Reach, Inc., of Conroe, Texas. This still active faith-based organization helps youth reach their full potential despite the obstacles placed on them by broken families and broken systems. It includes a transitional living program for former foster care youth and a kinship program that supports relatives and kin raising children. https://angelreach.org/
Beth working at a Mexican Orphanage where she conducted an outcome study for The HANDLE Institute. The study was in 2004 and was published in Adoption Today in 2006.
–Created The Child-in-Family Approach, a systems-based assessment and treatment model for families raising children from hard places. Beth’s model is compatible with TBRI®, an attachment-based approach that is designed to meet the complex therapeutic needs of foster and adopted kids. https://infamilyservices.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ADD-Sample-Treatment-Plan-2-Carlos-Grimes.pdf https://infamilyservices.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Sample-Treatment-Plan-for-website-Childrens-FAQs.pdf
Beth has good fluency in Spanish. While she was working on her Master’s Degree in Social Work in the late 1980’s in Houston, Texas, Beth designed and executed a war-refugee-related post-traumatic stress disorder program for The Central American Refugee Center (CARECEN). During that time period, she also designed and executed the ESL literacy component for the Amnesty Program at Houston Community College.
She has traveled to Mexico to support orphanage workers and train local service professionals in the delivery of lay mental health services to children without parents. Over the years, she has assessed refugees’ mental health states who are applying for political asylum or residency.
Beth continues to train and offer trauma-informed mental health services to those who work closely with traumatized children and parents regardless of how the trauma has occurred. Be it due to disaster, war, impoverishment, death of a loved one, or abuse and neglect.
Beth goes back and forth between her MS and Texas offices. Wherever she is, she is always available by Zoom, phone call, text and email.