Learning from each Other: Process and Outcomes in the Fostering Changes Training Programme

Adoption and Fostering

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 17-28

  Warman, Andrea ^a   Pallett, Clare ^b   Scott, Stephen ^b  

^a BAAF ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTH LONDON AND MAUDSLEY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

effectiveness; foster care training; Fostering Changes programme; powerful learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249155865     PISSN: 03085759     EISSN: 1740469X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030857590603000304     Document Type: Article

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