Foster placements : why they succeed and why they fail /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sinclair, Ian, 1938-
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors: Wilson, Kate, 1943-, Gibbs, Ian
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2005.
Series:Supporting parents.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The sample : characteristics and reasons for placement
  • Placements and destinations
  • A kind of loving : the children's accounts
  • Outcomes
  • Explanations : social worker and carer accounts
  • The case studies
  • Spirals of interaction
  • Measuring success
  • Foster children : characteristics, personalities and problems
  • Birth families : characteristics and patterns of contact
  • Foster families : characteristics, reactions to child and approach of main carer
  • Social work support
  • Other forms of support
  • Change and containment.