The wellbeing of children in care
Subtitle: a new approach for improving developmental outcomes
By: Kwame Owusu-Bempah.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780415479394; 9780415479400; 9780203851722
Subjects: Children -- Institutional care -- Psychological aspects; Foster home care -- Psychological aspects; Adoption -- Psychological aspects; Child development; Child welfare
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Fostering and adoption in historical perspective; title: Fostering: cross-cultural perspective; title: Fostering in contemporary western societies; title: Motives for fostering; title: Public care and kinship care; title: Public care versus kinship care: psycho-social developmental outcomes; title: In the interest of the child: kinship care; title: Policy, practice and research implications.