Children in foster care: What behaviours do carers find challenging?[J] . Olivia Octoman,Sara McLean,Julie Sleep.Clin Psychol . 2014 (1)Octoman, O., McLean, S., & Sleep, J. (2014). Children in foster care: What behaviours do carers find challenging? Clinical Psychologist, 18, 10-20....
“There isn’t enough available for you to be able to prioritize, and so therefore you will grasp at anything that is acceptable to you. It doesn’t matter if it’s going to perhaps improve by 1% or by 50% or will get to the cure level of 100%. You will take it.” (Advocate, ...
(PDF 283 kb) Abbreviations CDC: Consumer Directed Care; NSW: New South Wales; OT: Occupational therapist; PDC: Provider Directed Care; QOL: Quality of life; SA: South Australia Acknowledgements The authors gratefully acknowledge participation of the clients and informal carers who participated in ...
A key principle is that services are provided to support families in their child’s care and development. In many LMICs, the family have been, and will continue to be, the primary carers of their children and often their care-giving extends into their adulthood. This principle brings a duali...
'Coming out' may have happened prior to placement or in placement, with foster carers having to adjust their thinking; some feeling confident and others feeling rather confused and, for example, wondering if this was 'a phase.' Foster carers often found they had to help the young person ...
Foster carers themselves can be paid £400 a week or more for each child they take in, and the companies which employ many of them (almost invariably run by former social workers) are hugely profitable. Last year, Rothschilds organised the sale of the National Fostering Agency, the second...
Foster carers should get more money for the work they doLISA NANDY
They shared their experiences of foster care with the assembled MPs, peers, media and representatives of fostering services to explain why they see a need for more foster carers in the UK.Damien is 18 and has been in public care since the age of six weeks. During this time he has lived...
(2000) Male foster carers: What do we mean by `role models'?, Adoption and Fostering, 24 (3), 36-47Newstone, S. (2000) 'Male foster carers: What do we mean by 'role models', Adoption & Fostering, 24(3), pp. 36-47.Newstone, S. (2000) Male foster carers: What do we mean...
Sykes, J., Sinclair, I., Gibbs, I. & Wilson, K. (2002) Kinship and stranger foster carers: How do they Compare? Adoption and Fostering. 26 (2): 38-48.Sykes, Sinclair, Gibbs & Wilson (2002) Kinship and stranger foster carers, How do they compare? Adoption & Fostering, Volume 26,...