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Fostering Adolescents

  • ISBN-13: 9781843102274
  • Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
  • By Elaine Farmer, By Sue Moyers, By Jo Lipscombe
  • Price: AUD $62.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/08/2004
  • Format: Paperback 256 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Adoption [VFVK]
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Using interviews with over sixty fostered adolescents, their social workers and foster carers, Fostering Adolescents builds up a picture of the challenges faced by both carers and the young people themselves, from planning and preparation for a placement to the impact of foster carer strain. It highlights overlooked factors affecting fostering placements, such as the significance of peer relationships and the role of foster carers' children, and considers which supports and services are vital in maintaining placements.Based on the findings of research commissioned by the Department of Health, this book will be essential reading for both social work policy makers and practitioners. Drawing on the first extended study to examine which factors contribute to positive outcomes for adolescent fostering, the authors address the specific parenting skills and training requirements needed by carers, and look at how to help those young people who are hardest to foster.A rich source of recommendations for social workers, policy makers and carers, this book will be invaluable for anyone involved in the fields of child welfare and child protection.
1. Introduction. 2. Background and research literature. 3. How we designed and carried out the study. 4. Description of the young people and the carers in the sample. 5. Planning and preparation for the placements. 6. The young people's behaviour in the placements. 7. Foster carer strain. 8. Support for the foster carers. 9. The parenting approaches of the foster carers. 10. The young people's contact with family members. 11. Predicting placement outcome. 12. Implications for practice and policy. References. Subject Index. Author Index.
It provides recommendations for policy and practice in the areas of how strain for carers can be reduced; the role foster carers' own children play in the success or failure of a placement; how to contain adolescents; key training and support requirements for foster carers; managing contact; and how foster carers and social workers respond to gender differences. This will be an invaluable book for anyone working in child welfare and child protection.
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