Family dynamics in kinship care.
Kinship care is the first choice for out‐of‐home care in the United Kingdom. Family context is described as both a strength and a weakness of kinship care arrangements with limited research examining how kinship carers understand and experience their family dynamics; the focus of this study. Data we...
| Publicado en: | Child & Family Social Work Vol. 27; no. 4; pp. 635 - 646 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Nov2022
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