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Accomplishing Permanency: Reunification Pathways and Outcomes for Foster Children

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Authors:
  1. Elizabeth Fernandez

    1. University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

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Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research (BRIEFSWELLBEING)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Accomplishing Permanency: Reunification Pathways and Outcomes for Foster Children

    • Elizabeth Fernandez
    Pages 1-14

  3. Family Characteristics and Histories

    • Elizabeth Fernandez
    Pages 15-30

  4. Reasons for Children Entering Care

    • Elizabeth Fernandez
    Pages 31-44

  5. Assessment and Intervention

    • Elizabeth Fernandez
    Pages 45-66

  6. Case Plans and Care Arrangements

    • Elizabeth Fernandez
    Pages 67-77

  7. Care Patterns and Outcomes of Reunification

    • Elizabeth Fernandez
    Pages 79-86

  8. Decisions About Reunification and Interventions to Support Children and Families

    • Elizabeth Fernandez
    Pages 87-95

  9. The Carer’s Contributions and Experience

    • Elizabeth Fernandez
    Pages 97-122

  10. Parental Perspectives

    • Elizabeth Fernandez
    Pages 123-135

  11. Informing Policy and Practice in Reunification

    • Elizabeth Fernandez
    Pages 137-154
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Reunification is a primary goal of foster care systems and the most common permanency planning decision. It is defined as the return of children placed in protective care to the home of their birth family and used to describe the act of restoring a child in out-of-home care back to the biological family.  Yet reunification decision-making and the process of reintegrating children into birth families remains under researched. This Brief takes a look at family reunification knowledge and research in Australia where there is evidence that most children placed in protective care are eventually reunited with their birth parents. It explores how a knowledge of reunification decision making and outcomes can contribute to strengthening practice and informing policy formulation and program planning in Child Welfare.​

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  • University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

    Elizabeth Fernandez

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