| Description |
182 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Fostering and adoption in historical perspective -- Fostering in cross-cultural perspective -- Fostering in contemporary Western societies -- Motives for child fostering -- Public care and kinship care -- Public care versus kinship care: psychosocial developmental outcomes -- In the interest of the child: kinship care -- Policy, practice and research implications |
| Summary |
This book looks at how children in care can best be helped to attain desirable developmental outcomes. The author introduces his notion of socio-genealogical connectedness to help explain why children in kinship care fare better than children in non-relative foster care. He argues, using recent empirical research as well as a wide range of literature from the adoption field and attachment theory, that knowledge about one's hereditary background is an essential factor in looked-after children's long-term adjustment to placement. As with all children, this knowledge forms the bases of their identity, self-worth and general outlook. This book offers promising routes to understanding better and working more effectively with virtually all families, irrespective of their cultural, ethnic and religious backgrounds |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Children -- Institutional care -- Psychological aspects.
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Foster home care -- Psychological aspects.
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Adoption -- Psychological aspects.
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Child development.
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Child welfare.
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| LC no. |
2009046042 |
| ISBN |
9780415479394 hardback |
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9780415479400 |
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9780203851722 |
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