Youth leaving foster care : a developmental, relationship-based approach to practice

Youth leaving foster care : a developmental, relationship-based approach to practice / Wendy B. Smith.

This comprehensive text focuses on youth emerging from care, offering a new theoretical framework to guide students, practitioners, administrators, and policymakers. The book features case vignettes, recommendations for practice and programmes, and a multidimensional perspective on the effects of ma...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Wendy Benjamin, 1946- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2011]
Subjects:
Foster children > Services for > United States.
Foster children > Psychology.
Foster children > Counseling of.
Foster children > Family relationships > United States.
Foster children > Deinstitutionalization > United States.
Ex-foster children > United States > Social conditions.
Ex-foster children > Education > United States.
Foster children > Government policy > United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Foster children > Family relationships
Foster children > Government policy
Foster children > Psychology
Foster children > Services for
United States
Online Access:Click for online access
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Summary:This comprehensive text focuses on youth emerging from care, offering a new theoretical framework to guide students, practitioners, administrators, and policymakers. The book features case vignettes, recommendations for practice and programmes, and a multidimensional perspective on the effects of maltreatment on development, and common mental health disorders and treatment.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvii, 301 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-287) and index.
ISBN:9780199893355
0199893357
9780199704941
0199704945
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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