Providing a Secure Base: Tuning in to Children with Severe Learning Difficulties in Long-Term Foster Care*

Adoption and Fostering

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 8-19

  Beek, Mary ^a   Schofield, Gillian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

attachment theory; children with severe learning difficulties; communication; good progress; long term foster care

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144460429     PISSN: 03085759     EISSN: 1740469X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030857590402800203     Document Type: Article

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