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Fostering adolescents /

Using interviews with over sixty fostered adolescents, their social workers and foster carers, Fostering Adolescents builds up a picture of the challenges faced by both carers and the young people themselves, from planning and preparation for a placement to the impact of foster carer strain. It high...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Farmer, Elaine
Otros Autores: Moyers, Sue, 1948-, Lipscombe, Jo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2004.
Colección:Supporting parents.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Background and research literature
  • How we designed and carried out the study
  • Description of the young people and the foster carers in the sample
  • Planning and preparation for the placements
  • The young people's behaviour in the placements
  • Foster carer strain
  • Support for the foster carers
  • The parenting approaches of the foster carers
  • The young people's contact with family members
  • Predicting placement outcome
  • Implications for practice and policy.