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The wellbeing of children in care : a new approach for improving developmental outcomes /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Owusu-Bempah, Kwame
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2010.
Subjects:
Children > Institutional care > Psychological aspects.
Foster home care > Psychological aspects.
Adoption > Psychological aspects.
Child development.
Child welfare.
Table of Contents:
  • Fostering and adoption in historical perspective
  • Fostering: cross-cultural perspective
  • Fostering in contemporary western societies
  • Motives for fostering
  • Public care and kinship care
  • Public care versus kinship care: psycho-social developmental outcomes
  • In the interest of the child: kinship care
  • Policy, practice and research implications.