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Fostering a child's recovery : family placement for traumatized children / Mike Thomas and Terry Philpot ; foreword by Mary Walsh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomas, Mike, 1955-
- Series:
- Delivering recovery.
- Delivering recovery
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Abused children--Rehabilitation.
- Abused children.
- Abused children--Services for.
- Therapeutic foster care.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (160 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This evidence-based book outlines the principles of family placement on the basis of planning and evidence, and explores the qualities, skills and insights that create positive placement outcomes. The book shows how the key to good fostering is well-trained and skilled foster carers who form part of a team of professionals who surround the child.
- Contents:
- FRONT COVER; Fostering a Child's Recovery: Family Placementfor Traumatized Children; Contents; FOREWORD; Introduction; 1. The Context of Family Placement; 2. Children and Their Histories; 3. The Carers; 4. Fostering, Loss and Opportunity; 5. Practising to Make Perfect: Introductions and thePractice Family; 6. How Placements Can Succeed; 7. Toward Independence; NOTES; REFERENCES; THE STORY OF SACCS; THE AUTHORS; SUBJECT INDEX; AUTHOR INDEX; back cover
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-140) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786612119743
- 9781282119741
- 1282119745
- 9781846426872
- 1846426871
- OCLC:
- 406578903
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