Title When there's no place like home : options for children living apart from their natural families / edited by Jan Blacher.

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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	362.734 W567W	Check Shelf

Description	xxiv, 355 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	I. Impact of social and legal policies on placement -- Intervention versus interference: the role of the courts in child placement / Sharon Gross Portwood and N. Dickon Reppucci -- The plight of homeless children / Ellen L. Bassuk and Linda Weinreb -- Consequences of placement for children who are abused / Virginia G. Weisz -- Mental health policy and the psychiatric inpatient care of children: implications for families / Charles A. Kiesler. II. Alternative families -- Temporary foster care: separating and reunifying families / Inger P. Davis and Elissa Ellis-MacLeod -- The Casey Family Program: factors in effective management of a long-term foster care organization / Ruth Massinga and Ken Perry -- Not under my heart, but in it: families by adoption / Loraine Masters Glidden.
	III. Residential placement -- Placement and its consequences for families with children who have mental retardation / Jan Blacher -- Comprehensive service programming for children with autism and their families / Stephen R. Anderson, Susan F. Thibadeau, and Walter P. Christian -- Residential treatment for children with dual diagnoses of mental retardation and mental disorder / Steven I. Pfeiffer and Bruce L. Baker. IV. Reconceptualizing placement -- To have and to share: culturally constituted fostering in familial settings / Janet E. Kilbride and Philip L. Kilbride -- Commentary: a social policy perspective / Emmy E. Werner.
Subject	Child welfare -- United States.
	Adoption -- United States.
	Foster home care -- United States.
	Children -- Institutional care -- United States.
	Family services -- United States.
	Adoption. (OCoLC)fst00797076
	Child welfare. (OCoLC)fst00854709
	Children -- Institutional care. (OCoLC)fst00855000
	Family services. (OCoLC)fst00920479
	Foster home care. (OCoLC)fst00933198
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Adoptivkind.
	Kindeswohl.
	Pflegekind.
	Heimkind.
	United States.
Added Author	Blacher, Jan.
Other Form:	Online version: When there's no place like home. Baltimore : P.H. Brookes Pub. Co., ©1994 (OCoLC)607253821
	Online version: When there's no place like home. Baltimore : P.H. Brookes Pub. Co., ©1994 (OCoLC)624423077
ISBN	1557661456
	9781557661456

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