Childhood Depression: New Theoretical Formulations and Implications for Foster Care Services.

Zimmerman, Rosalie B.

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ERIC Number: EJ364025

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1988

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Childhood Depression: New Theoretical Formulations and Implications for Foster Care Services.

Zimmerman, Rosalie B.

Child Welfare, v67 n1 p37-47 Jan-Feb 1988

Discusses ways of dealing with the learned helplessness common in clinically depressed children undergoing foster care. Recommends social care treatment, which is inherent in daily living, and is guided by trained foster parents and caretakers. (SKC)

Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Child Caregivers, Counseling Techniques, Depression (Psychology), Foster Children, Foster Family, Helplessness, Individual Development, Young Children

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Audience: Researchers; Practitioners

Language: English

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