True ambivalence: Child welfare workers' thoughts, feelings, and beliefs about kinship foster care

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 595-614

  Peters, Jay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Child welfare; Kinship foster care; Triangulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 14644404218     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2004.11.012     Document Type: Article

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