A model for life-story work: Facilitating the construction of personal narrative for foster children

Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 193-195

  Cook Cottone, Catherine ^a   Beck, Meredith ^a  

^a Department of Counseling School and Educational Psychology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Foster care; Life book; Life story; Narrative

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FOSTER CARE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; NARRATIVE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

EID: 35448978259     PISSN: 1475357X     EISSN: 14753588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-3588.2007.00446.x     Document Type: Article

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