RT Book T1 Accomplishing Permanency: Reunification Pathways and Outcomes for Foster Children T2 SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research T2 SpringerLink Bücher A1 Fernandez, Elizabeth LA English PP Dordrecht PB Springer YR 2013 UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1651866759 AB 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.? OP 154 NO Description based upon print version of record CN HQ1-2044 SN 9789400750920 SN 9781283634359 K1 Quality of life : Research K1 Social Sciences K1 Quality of life K1 Developmental Psychology K1 Pflegekind : Entwicklungspsychologie : Herkunftsfamilie : Reintegration DO 10.1007/978-94-007-5092-0