When Foster Children Leave: Helping Foster Parents to Grieve.

Edelstein, Susan

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ERIC Number: EJ250218

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1981

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When Foster Children Leave: Helping Foster Parents to Grieve.

Edelstein, Susan

Child Welfare, v60 n7 p467-73 Jul-Aug 1981

Relates the theory of grief and its resolution to foster parents' experiences of separation and loss, discusses obstacles to healthy grief resolution, and suggests how child welfare agencies and foster parents themselves can help foster parents resolve grief feelings. (Author/DB)

Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adults, Agency Role, Foster Children, Foster Family, Grief, Helping Relationship, Intervention, Parent Child Relationship, Psychological Needs

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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