Screening Adoptive and Foster Parents - Softcover

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James L. Dickerson, a former public and private agency social worker in charge of screening adoptive and foster parent applicants, and a case manager for the Mississippi Department of Mental Health in the area of intellectual disabilities. He developed a landmark mentoring program for adults with intellectual disabilities and wrote a grant that obtained federal funding for the program. He is the co-author of How to Screen Adoptive and Foster Parents: A Workbook for Professionals and Students and Basics of Adoption. He is an award-winning author of numerous books, most of them in the category of investigative journalism and biography. His investigative biography of Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager, was purchased by Warner Bros. for a 2022 film titled Elvis, starring Tom Hanks and Austin Butler. He currently is working on scripts for a television series.

Mardi Allen, Ph.D. is the former Clinical Services Liaison with Mississippi Department of Mental Health and past president of the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards (2002-2003). She is co-author of several books, including How to Screen Adoptive and Foster Parents: A Workbook for Professionals and Students, published by the National Association of Social Workers, and Basics of Adoption. She earned her doctorate in psychology at the University of Southern Mississippi with an emphasis in Child, Developmental and School Psychology. She has been a book reviewer for Contemporary Psychology, a journal published by the American Psychological Association, and she has been published in the Journal of Clinical Psychology.