Love and money: payment, motivation and the fostering task

Child and Family Social Work

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 199-208

  Kirton, Derek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

foster care; motivation; payment; professionalization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFTERCARE; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COMPENSATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FOSTER CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MONEY; MOTIVATION; REWARD; SKILL;

EID: 84937342975     PISSN: 13567500     EISSN: 13652206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2206.2001.00208.x     Document Type: Article

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