Developing Group-Based Parent Training for Foster and Adoptive Parents

Adoption and Fostering

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 39-48

  Golding, Kim ^a  

^a Worcestershire Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adoption; Attachment Theory; child development; fostering; NICE guidance on parent training; parent training

Indexed keywords

EID: 57749162263     PISSN: 03085759     EISSN: 1740469X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030857590703100306     Document Type: Article

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