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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Farmer, Elaine
Other Authors: Moyers, Sue, 1948-, Lipscombe, Jo
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2004.
Series:Supporting parents.
Subjects:
Foster home care > Great Britain > Case studies.
Teenagers > Great Britain > Interviews.
Adolescents > Grande-Bretagne > Entretiens.
Sociology: Family & Relationships.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Adoption & Fostering.
Foster home care
Teenagers
Great Britain
Interview
Case Reports
interviews.
Case studies
Interviews
Case studies.
Interviews.
Études de cas.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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