Making visits work

Visits between parents and children are key to successful reunification. Providing a safe and possibly supervised setting, however, is not always sufficient to facilitate positive parent-child interaction. Parents often have to learn how to play with and enjoy their child's company. This article offers common overestimations of parental capacity that doom visits, principles for effective visiting, and practical and inexpensive suggestions that are easy to implement and enjoyable, and that will improve interaction and increase the potential for reunification.