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Fostering adolescents [electronic resource] / Elaine Farmer, Sue Moyers, and Jo Lipscombe.

By: Farmer, Elaine, 1949-.
Contributor(s): Lipscombe, Jo | Moyers, Sue, 1948- | ebrary, Inc.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Supporting parents: Publisher: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2004Description: 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Foster home care -- Great Britain -- Case studies | Teenagers -- Great Britain -- InterviewsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 362.73/3/0941 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Introduction -- Background and research literature -- How we designed and carried out the study -- Description of the young people and the foster carers in the sample -- Planning and preparation for the placements -- The young people's behaviour in the placements -- Foster carer strain -- Support for the foster carers -- The parenting approaches of the foster carers -- The young people's contact with family members -- Predicting placement outcome -- Implications for practice and policy.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-247) and indexes.

Introduction -- Background and research literature -- How we designed and carried out the study -- Description of the young people and the foster carers in the sample -- Planning and preparation for the placements -- The young people's behaviour in the placements -- Foster carer strain -- Support for the foster carers -- The parenting approaches of the foster carers -- The young people's contact with family members -- Predicting placement outcome -- Implications for practice and policy.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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