Understanding Looked After Children: An Introduction to Psychology for Foster Care - Softcover

Guishard-Pine, Jeune

 
9781849853835: Understanding Looked After Children: An Introduction to Psychology for Foster Care

Book Description

A guide to understanding the mental health needs of children in foster care and the role of foster carers and support networks in helping these children

About the Author

Jeune Guishard-Pine is a lead clinician and consultant psychologist at Luton Family Consultation Clinic. She is also a consultant psychologist in private practice. She has been researching and practising psychology since 1978 and has worked in social services for both statutory and voluntary sectors. Suzanne McCall is a counsellor at the Luton Family Consultation Clinic working with adolescents, parents and foster carers and also works from her own private practice. She is also a qualified social worker with ten years of experience working with looked after children and children in need and at risk. Lloyd Hamilton is a systemic psychotherapist and Team Manager of the Lewisham Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service looked after children team; part of the South London and Maudsley Foundation Trust. Lloyd is also a teacher and began working with diverse communities of young people in London schools in 1992.

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9781843103707: Understanding Looked After Children: An Introduction to Psychology for Foster Care

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ISBN 10:  1843103702 ISBN 13:  9781843103707
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley, 2007
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