Foster care - an overview, Greg Kelly; children's experience of foster care, Robbie Gilligan; safe care - preventing abuse in foster care, Stephen Nixon; a systematic approach to foster care assessment - the theory and the practice, Sylvia McCracken; the use of brief therapies in support of foster placements, Stan Houston; promoting resilience and children's networks, Robbie Gilligan; kinship care, Valerie O'Brien; managing children's behaviour in foster care, Ken Terr; outcomes of foster care, Greg Kelly; leaving foster care, John Pinkerton; conclusion - implications for foster care and social work practice, Robbie Gilligan.
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[It] make[s] valuable contributions to the debates surrounding fostering policy and practice as well as to the evidence base of foster care. Personally my favourite contribution was the chapter by Gilligan on promoting resilience in children in foster care. I found this chapter theoretically and practically particularly valuable. It was moving in its focus on maximising the potential for survival in children by the building on protective factors. The chapter will be of benefit for carers as well as practitioners and is written in a humane and accessible fashion.