Understanding Children in Foster Care: Identifying and Addressing What Children Learn from Maltreatment

by Wendy Kelly

This book introduces the Relational Learning Framework (RLF), an assessment tool which helps foster care practitioners, social workers and foster carers to examine what foster children have learned in their early life about relationships and particularly through maltreatment. Grounded in attachment theory and drawing on cognitive theory this book will help practitioners to understand and respond to the challenging behaviour presented by these children...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 331965375X
• ISBN13: 9783319653754
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"