Are We Missing the Match?: Rethinking Adopter Assessment and Child Profiling

Adoption and Fostering

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 7-18

  Cousins, Jennifer ^a  

^a BAAF Midlands   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adoption; assessment; child profiles; matching

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248602792     PISSN: 03085759     EISSN: 1740469X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030857590302700403     Document Type: Article

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