Empathy as an Essential Foundation to Successful Foster Parenting.
Foster parents play a crucial role in providing safe and stable homes to maltreated children placed in out-of-home care and in doing so are tasked with many challenges. Understanding how foster parents are able to overcome the challenges inherent to fostering, to continue to foster children long ter...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Child & Family Studies Vol. 25; no. 12; pp. 3771 - 3780 |
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Springer Nature
Dec2016
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