Foster placements : why they succeed and why they fail /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; Philadelphia :
Jessica Kingsley Publishers,
2005.
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| 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.