Helping Foster Carers, Helping Children: Using Attachment Theory to Guide Practice*

Adoption and Fostering

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 64-73

  Golding, Kim ^a  

^a Wyre Forest Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

attachment difficulties; attachment theory; fostering; looked after children; therapeutic fostering

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747608490     PISSN: 03085759     EISSN: 1740469X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030857590302700209     Document Type: Article

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