Youth leaving foster care [electronic resource] : a developmental, relationship-based approach to practice / Wendy B. Smith.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 301 p.) : illISBN:- 9780199893355 (ebook) :
- Foster children -- Services for -- United States
- Foster children -- Psychology
- Foster children -- Counseling of
- Foster children -- Family relationships -- United States
- Foster children -- Deinstitutionalization -- United States
- Ex-foster children -- United States -- Social conditions
- Ex-foster children -- Education -- United States
- Foster children -- Government policy -- United States
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This comprehensive text focuses on youth emerging from care, offering a new theoretical framework to guide students, practitioners, administrators, and policymakers. The book features case vignettes, recommendations for practice and programmes, and a multidimensional perspective on the effects of maltreatment on development, and common mental health disorders and treatment.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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