Kwame Owusu-Bempah

The Wellbeing of Children in Care (eBook, ePUB)

A New Approach for Improving Developmental Outcomes

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This important book looks at how children in care can best be helped to attain desirable developmental outcomes. Owusu-Bempah introduces his notion of socio-genealogical connectedness to help explain why children in kinship care fare better than children in non-relative foster care.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136971426
• Artikelnr.: 42513533

Autorenporträt

Kwame Owusu-Bempah is Emeritus Reader in Psychology at the University of Leicester, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Selected Contents: 1. Fostering and adoption in historical perspective
2. Fostering: cross-cultural perspective
3. Fostering in contemporary Western societies
4. Motives for fostering
5. Public care and kinship care
6. Public care versus kinship care: psycho-social developmental outcomes
7. In the interest of the child: kinship care
8. Policy
practice and research implications