The Wellbeing of Children in Care : a New Approach for Improving Developmental Outcomes.

Looks at how children in care can best be helped to attain desirable developmental outcomes. This title introduces the author's notion of socio-genealogical connectedness to help explain why children in kinship care fare better than children in non-relative foster care.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Owusu-Bempah, Kwame
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2010.
Temas:
Children > Institutional care > Psychological aspects.
Foster home care > Psychological aspects.
Adoption > Psychological aspects.
Child development.
Child welfare.
Adoption > Aspect psychologique.
Enfants > Développement.
Adoption > Psychological aspects
Child development
Child welfare
Children > Institutional care > Psychological aspects
Foster home care > Psychological aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Fostering and adoption in historical perspective; 2 Fostering in cross-cultural perspective; 3 Fostering in contemporary Western societies; 4 Motives for child fostering; 5 Public care and kinship care; 6 Public care versus kinship care: Psychosocial developmental outcomes; 7 In the interest of the child Kinship care; 8 Policy, practice and research implications; Bibliography; Index.

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