Accomplishing Permanency: Reunification Pathways and Outcomes for Foster Children

Reunification is a primary goal of foster care systems and the most common permanency planning decision.�It is�defined as the return of children placed in protective care to the home of their birth family and used to describe the act of restoring a child in out-of-home care back to the biological fa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fernandez, Elizabeth. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Series:SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research,
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1  Introduction
  • Chapter 2 - Characteristics of parents and children
  • Chapter 3 - Reasons for children entering care
  • Chapter 4 - Assessment and intervention
  • Chapter 5 - Case plans and care management
  • Chapter 6 - Care patterns and outcomes
  • Chapter 7  Contact
  • Chapter 8  Decisions about reunification and interventions to support children and families
  • Chapter 9  The carers contribution and experience
  • Chapter 10  Parental perspectives
  • Chapter 11 - Conclusion: gaining an understanding of pre and post intervention characteristics.