Providing Therapy to Children and Families in Foster Care: A Systemic-Relational Approach.
Foster care is a system created to protect children from an unsafe home environment yet multiple foster home placements, conflictual or nonexistent relationships between foster parents and birth parents, long, drawn out court battles, and living in an on-going state of not knowing when or if they wi...
| Publicado en: | Family Process Vol. 50; no. 4; pp. 436 - 453 |
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| Formato: | case study Journal Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2011
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