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Children exposed to parental substance misuse : implications for family placement / edited by Rena Phillips.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Parents--Substance use.
- Parents.
- Children of drug addicts.
- Foster home care.
- Adoption.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (341 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London : BAAF, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Increased awareness of the effects on children of drugs, alcohol and other substances used by parents, especially mothers during pregnancy, has raised some searching questions. Accessibly written for the non-medical reader, this book considers the impact - psychological, social, behavioural and genetic - on children exposed to parental substance abuse and tackles the challenges posed in parenting children damaged in this way.
- Contents:
- section I. Setting the scene
- section II. The effects of substance misuse in pregnancy
- section III. The challenge for social work
- section IV. The views of those affected
- section V. Planning and supporting placements.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- OCLC:
- 923572069
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