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The wellbeing of children in care : a new approach for improving developmental outcomes / Kwame Owusu-Bempah.
LIBRA HV873 .O98 2010
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Van Pelt Library HV873 .O98 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Owusu-Bempah, Kwame.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children--Institutional care--Psychological aspects.
- Children.
- Foster home care--Psychological aspects.
- Foster home care.
- Adoption--Psychological aspects.
- Adoption.
- Child development.
- Child welfare.
- Children--Institutional care.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 182 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2010.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415479394
- 0415479398
- 9780415479400
- 0415479401
- 9780203851722
- 0203851722
- OCLC:
- 368025645
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