Towards Professional Decision‐Making: A Vignette Study on Problem Behaviour in Flemish, Lithuanian and Latvian Foster Children.
As directives are often missing or fragmented, foster care workers have a huge amount of discretionary power. They are trusted to use this power for the benefit of the foster families they monitor. Wrong decisions must be prevented at all times. With greater understanding of the factors affecting de...
| Publicado en: | Child & Family Social Work Vol. 31; no. 2; pp. 1125 - 1138 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
May2026
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