Accomplishing Permanency: Reunification Pathways and Outcomes for Foster Children

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...

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Main Author: Fernandez, Elizabeth (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer 2013
In:Year: 2013
Online Access: Cover
Table of Contents
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Keywords:
Developmental Psychology
Pflegekind > Entwicklungspsychologie > Herkunftsfamilie > Reintegration
Quality of life
Quality of life > Research
Social Sciences
Related Items:Buchausg. u.d.T.: 1618088521
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Summary: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 family. Yet reunification decision-making and the process of reintegrating children into birth families remains under researched. This Brief takes a look at family reunification knowledge and research in Australia where there is evidence that most children placed in protective care are eventually reunited with their birth parents. It explores how a knowledge of reunification decision making and outcomes can contribute to strengthening practice and informing policy formulation and program planning in Child Welfare.?
Item Description:Description based upon print version of record
Physical Description:Online-Ressource (XIV, 154 p. 24 illus, digital)
ISBN:9789400750920
9781283634359
DOI:10.1007/978-94-007-5092-0