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Children in Foster Care

By: James Barber,Paul Delfabbro,Robyn Gilbertson

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Children in Foster Care

By: James Barber,Paul Delfabbro,Robyn Gilbertson

Researchers, practitioners, journalists and politicians increasingly recognise that foster care throughout the world is in a state of crisis. There are more and more children needing care and, as residential alternatives dry up, more of these children are being assigned to foster families. This book reports the major findings of a two-year longitudinal study of 235 such children who entered the foster care system in Southern Australia between 1998 and 1999. As well as examining the changing policy context of children's services, the book documents the psychosocial outcomes for these children, their feedback on their experiences of care, and the views of their social workers and carers. In the process, the book examines some cherished beliefs about foster care policy and sheds new light on them. The research reveals that while most children do quite well in foster care up to the two-year point, there is a worrying amount of placement instability at a time when the concentration of emotionally troubled children in care is increasing throughout the western world. Although, surprisingly, placement instability does not appear to produce psychosocial impairment for a period of up to eight months in care, it has an extreme effect on children who are moved from placement to placement because no carer will tolerate their behaviour. These children are consigned to a life of distribution and emotional upheaval because of the lack of alternative forms of care. Another unexpected finding of the research is that increasing the rate of parental contact achieves little or nothing in relation to the likelihood of family reunification. As child welfare increasingly enters a world of research-based practice, Children in Foster Care provides some much needed hard evidence of how foster care policy and practice can be improved.

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1134385242

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The Wiley Handbook on the Development of Children's Memory

By: Patricia J. Bauer,Robyn Fivush

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The Wiley Handbook on the Development of Children's Memory

By: Patricia J. Bauer,Robyn Fivush

This all-embracing Handbook on the Development of Children’s Memory represents the first place in which critical topics in memory development are covered from multiple perspectives, from infancy through adolescence. Forty-four chapters are written by experienced researchers who have influenced the field. Edited by two of the world’s leading experts on the development of memory Discusses the importance of a developmental perspective on the study of memory The first ever handbook to bring together the world’s leading academics in one reference guide Each section has an introduction written by one of the Editors, who have also written an overall introduction that places the work in historical and contemporary contexts in cognitive and developmental psychology 2 Volumes

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118590201

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Children in Foster Care

By: James Barber,Paul Delfabbro,Robyn Gilbertson

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By: James Barber,Paul Delfabbro,Robyn Gilbertson

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1134385250

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Foster Care

The State of the Art

By: James G. Barber,Robyn Gilbertson

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Foster Care

The State of the Art

By: James G. Barber,Robyn Gilbertson

In this monograph, the authors review the state of the art in foster care. More specifically, the authors examine the empirical literature and practice policy from around the world in an effort to identify what constitutes best practice in foster care -- Intro.

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