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Understanding and working with parents of children in long-term foster care / Gillian Schofield and Emma Ward.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schofield, Gillian, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Parenting.
- Foster children.
- Parent and child.
- Foster home care.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (226 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- For children growing up in foster care, the role of their birth parents is an important factor in the success of their long-term placements. Understanding the experiences of parents is therefore essential for social workers. This book set out a model of good practice, based on the experiences of these parents and social workers.
- Contents:
- Introduction : legal, policy and research context
- Parenting before the children went into care
- Parents' experience of their children going into care
- Parents' experience of their children growing up in foster care
- Contact between parents and their children
- Parents' relationships with foster carers
- Parents' relationships with social workers
- Am I still a parent : managing a threatened identity
- Social workers' perspectives on their practice with parents
- Conclusion : developing social work practice.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-90523-X
- 0-85700-489-1
- OCLC:
- 711747256
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