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Creative Cooperation: Involving Biological Parents in Long-Term Foster Care.
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Tiddy, Suzanne G. – Child Welfare, 1986
Discusses the rationale and strategies needed to help those children placed in long-term foster family care face the reality of their biological parents through some form of relationship. This idea is illustrated by several case study examples. (Author/BB)
Descriptors: Biological Parents, Case Studies, Child Welfare, Children
Ensuring the Best Interest of the Child in Intercountry Adoption Practice: Case Studies from the United Kingdom and the United States.
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Selinske, Joanne; Naughton, Dana; Flanagan, Kathleen; Fry, Peter; Pickles, Alison – Child Welfare, 2001
Discusses cases of problematic, unethical international adoptions that came to the attention of the International Social Service in 1999. Considers cases of unqualified social workers hired to perform home evaluations and the resulting policy changes and implementation of global standards in intercountry adoptions. (JPB)
Descriptors: Adoption, Case Studies, Change Strategies, Child Welfare
The Multinational Transfer of Competency-Based Foster Parent Assessment, Selection, and Training: A Nine-Country Case Study.
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Herczog, Maria; van Pagee, Rob; Pasztor, Eileen Mayers – Child Welfare, 2001
Describes transfer of methods of the PRIDE program for foster parent training and assessment from Sweden and Finland, to Hungary, Norway, Poland, and Estonia. Discusses three critical factors: program content, methodology used to accomplish the transfer, and commitment of the transferring organizations and individuals involved. Considers the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Welfare, Foreign Countries, Foster Care