Accomplishing Permanency: Reunification Pathways and Outcomes for Foster Children

• Main Author: Fernandez, Elizabeth (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Medical research.; Quality of life.; Families.; Families > Social aspects.; Child psychology.; School psychology.; Social Sciences.; Family.; Child and School Psychology.; Quality of Life Research.

Reunification is a primary goal of foster care systems and the most common permanency planning decision. It is defined as the return of children placed in protective care to the home of their birth family and used to describe the act of restoring a child in out-of-home care back to the biological fa...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 – Introduction
• Chapter 2 - Characteristics of parents and children
• Chapter 3 - Reasons for children entering care
• Chapter 4 - Assessment and intervention
• Chapter 5 - Case plans and care management
• Chapter 6 - Care patterns and outcomes
• Chapter 7 – Contact
• Chapter 8 – Decisions about reunification and interventions to support children and families
• Chapter 9 – The carers’ contribution and experience
• Chapter 10 – Parental perspectives
• Chapter 11 - Conclusion: gaining an understanding of pre and post intervention characteristics.