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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818314103321

Autore

Owusu-Bempah Kwame

Titolo

The wellbeing of children in care : a new approach for improving developmental outcomes / / Kwame Owusu-Bempah

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-136-97142-4

1-136-97143-2

1-282-62959-X

9786612629594

0-203-85172-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Disciplina

362.73/2

Soggetti

Children - Institutional care - Psychological aspects

Foster home care - Psychological aspects

Adoption - Psychological aspects

Child development

Child welfare

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Fostering and adoption in historical perspective; 2 Fostering in cross-cultural perspective; 3 Fostering in contemporary Western societies; 4 Motives for child fostering; 5 Public care and kinship care; 6 Public care versus kinship care: Psychosocial developmental outcomes; 7 In the interest of the child Kinship care; 8 Policy, practice and research implications; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Because of their previous damaging experiences, many children and young people enter the care system having already developed emotional problems or at a greater risk of developing them. However, in addition to this, research and experience consistently show that being in care is likely to aggravate or worsen developmental problems. Why does public care have these negative effects on children and what is needed to alleviate their problems?This important book looks at how



children in care can best be helped to attain desirable developmental outcomes. Owusu-Bempah introduces his