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Towards a discipline of fostering
- Authors:
- HOGHUGHI Masud, HIPGROVE Tony
- Publisher:
- National Foster care Association
- Publication year:
- 1985
- Pagination:
- 32p., diags., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Children's homes and foster care: challenging dominant discourses in South African social work practice
- Authors:
- PERUMAL Nevashnee, KASIRAM Madhu
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Maatskaplike Werk, 44(2), June 2008, pp.159-169.
The article addresses key concerns surrounding dominant views of foster care being the best alternative care option for vulnerable children in South Africa. Legislation, policies and infrastructure all support this position, yet family life in South Africa is being corroded by, amongst other factors, HIV/AIDS and poverty. The author cite both ecological and structural theoretical perspectives in furthering this debate.
The nature of foster care: international trends
- Authors:
- COLTON Matthew, WILLIAMS Margaret
- Journal article citation:
- Adoption and Fostering, 21(1), Spring 1997, pp.44-49.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The nature of foster care is changing around the world. This article reviews developments in the purpose, definition and practice of foster care in countries as different as Argentina, Hungary, Finland, Italy, Zimbabwe and the UK. Argues that the growing emphasis on family support, reunification, and normalisation has implications for the way that foster care might be defined. With regard to practice, points to a trend towards diversification of foster care programmes so that increasing numbers of children with different and more challenging needs can all be served. Concludes by suggesting a new definition of foster care, aimed at encompassing the breadth and diversity of service needed to accommodate the changing needs of children everywhere.
Including birth families in foster care: a Canadian-British comparison
- Author:
- PALMER Sally E.
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Youth Services Review, 14(5), 1992, pp.407-425.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Study examining social worker practice in the two countries.
Temporary foster care
- Author:
- KUFELDT Kathleen
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 9(1), 1979, pp.49-66.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
In order to improve outcomes in temporary foster care, there is the need to develop alternative models for practice that would define the social work task and specify in operational terms how that task would be accomplished.
Re-examining social work roles and tasks with foster care
- Authors:
- FULCHER Leon C., MCGLADDERY Suzanne
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Youth Services, 32(1), January 2011, pp.19-38.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Social workers and case managers try to promote positive developmental outcomes for children and young people in foster care settings. When viewed from an ecological perspective, these foster care environments are represented conceptually as a nested cluster of settings ranging from immediate life spaces and networks of relationships in a foster home, at school, and in a neighbourhood, to organisational contexts holding a statutory duty of care for children and young people assigned looked after status. These are coupled with national policies and statutes which frame foster-care environments. This article examines how the roles and tasks of social work are redefined as social workers make career transitions away from case management roles in government departments to becoming supervising social workers or team managers in the field of foster care. The article aims to prepare and assist social workers in adapting to the new roles.
Fair play for foster carers
- Author:
- FRANCIS Joy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 12.11.92, 1992, p.8.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Investigates a report by the National Foster Care Association (NFCA), which has highlighted gaps in social work practice when foster carers are accused of abuse.
Values in social work: investigations of the practice of family placement
- Authors:
- ASHFORD S., TIMMS N.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 20(1), 1990, pp.1-2O.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Describes a attempt to study the relation between values held by social workers and their practice.
Direct work with children: a guide for social work practitioners
- Editors:
- ALDGATE Jane, SIMMONDS John
- Publisher:
- Batsford/British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 148p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The pivotal role of child welfare supervisors in implementing an agency's practice model
- Authors:
- FREY Lauren, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Youth Services Review, 34(7), July 2012, pp.1273-1282.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Increasingly, child welfare systems across the United States are implementing practice models based on sets of principles and values that undergird their practice with children and families and that specify outcomes to be achieved around the goals of safety, permanence, and well-being. Supervisors play a pivotal role in the complex tasks that are involved in implementing and embedding their agency’s practice model. The aim of this article is to explore the fundamental role of the supervisor in child welfare generally and practice model implementation in particular. In addition, it outlines the essential components of child welfare supervision that promote a practice model designed to ensure that children and youth in foster care achieve safety, permanency and well-being. The article describes the permanency practice model developed by the private foster care agency Casey Family Services (CFS), and the supervisory model that it has developed to implement its permanency practice model. The CFS supervisory model has 4 components: supervisor training and consultation; supervisor preparation; supervisory tools and interventions; and supervisor feedback. The article argues that practice model implementation is facilitated when the agency supervision model is aligned with its practice model.