The Experience of Being a Treatment Foster Mother

Qualitative Social Work

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 117-138

  Wells, Kathleen ^a   Farmer, Elizabeth M Z ^b   Richards, Jesse T ^b   Burns, Barbara J ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

foster care; foster mothers; treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248607694     PISSN: 14733250     EISSN: 17413117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1473325004043375     Document Type: Article

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