Browsing College of Human Sciences by Subject "Kinship care"

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Evolving networks of relative care : alliance and exclusion

O'Brien, Valerie (Ashgate, 1999-05)

The chapter traces the processes involved through the decision-making, assessment and post-assessment stages of kinship Care. It examines the ways in which case management practices, derived primarily from an application ...
Relative care : issues for social care workers?

O'Brien, Valerie (Irish Association of Social Care Educators, 2002)

This article is divided into two sections. In section one, the emergence of relative care is traced, together with the regulatory framework that has developed (Dept. of Health 1995a). A snap shot of a cohort of ninety-two ...
Relative foster care : a family state discourse

O'Brien, Valerie (Family Therapy Association of Ireland, 1997)

In this paper, preliminary analysis of research by the author in the area of relative care is presented. Four main areas relevant to the family : state discourse with respect to relative foster care are examined : The ...
Relative foster care : practice implications arising from the 1995 Relative and Foster Care Regulations

O'Brien, Valerie (Irish Association of Social Workers, 1997)

This paper examines the history that led to two separate sets of kinship and foster care regulations, the difference and similarity between the regulations, and the implications arising out of the changed framework for ...