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Article: Fernandez Elizabeth: 'Unravelling emotional, behavioural and educational outcomes in a longitudinal study of children in foster care'.(Fostering)(Abstract)(Report)
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- Adoption & Fostering
- Article date:
- December 22, 2008
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British Journal of Social Work 38:7, October 2008, pp 1283-301
The experience of out-of-home care has the potential to affect children's psychosocial outcomes in significant ways. This article highlights the interactive contribution of carers, teachers and children to the fostering experience. It reports on part of a longitudinal study of children in long-term foster care in Australia. Using a mixed-methods, repeated-measures, multi-informant approach, it focuses on emotional, behavioural and educational outcomes. Children in the study were assessed by carers and teachers for competencies and problem behaviours using the Achenbach Child Behaviour Checklist and its ...