Table of Contents: Foster placements :

Main Author:	Sinclair, Ian, 1938-
Other Authors:	Wilson, Kate,
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2005.
Series:	Supporting parents
Subjects:	Foster home care > Great Britain. Foster children > Great Britain. Foster home care. FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Adoption & Fostering. Foster children. Great Britain.
Online Access:	http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=129939

Table of Contents:

The sample : characteristics and reasons for placement
Placements and destinations
A kind of loving : the children's accounts
Outcomes
Explanations : social worker and carer accounts
The case studies
Spirals of interaction
Measuring success
Foster children : characteristics, personalities and problems
Birth families : characteristics and patterns of contact
Foster families : characteristics, reactions to child and approach of main carer
Social work support
Other forms of support
Change and containment.