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Working with children in foster care is a demanding and rigorous aspect of social work practice. Difficult decisions in fast-moving and often complex situations have to be made, and for students and practitioners alike, there is a vast array of legislation, law and social policy to understand. This book is written to help social workers and social work students get to grips with the complexity of foster care. The child is placed at the heart of the text and there are substantial chapters on law, policy frameworks and the overreaching theoretical and research evidence to support good practice. There is also a strong focus on practical skills such as empathy and relationship-based practice. This is an essential text for experienced social workers or those currently in training.
Conclusion
Conclusion
Foster care can make a profound beneficial difference to the lives of children in public care. Social workers in the field of foster care assess, support, supervise and help develop foster carers, enabling them and contributing to them making positive changes for children and young people for whom they care.
Social workers, working with foster carers, need the generic knowledge, values and skills that are required by all social workers to practise capably, in any area of social work, whether it is mental health, working within palliative care, child protection or in youth justice. As with all specialist areas of practice, in addition to the generic social work knowledge, values and skills, in the field of fostering, social workers have to be research literate ...
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