Providing a secure base: Parenting children in long-term foster family care

@article{Schofield2005ProvidingAS,
  title={Providing a secure base: Parenting children in long-term foster family care},
  author={Gillian Schofield and Mary Beek},
  journal={Attachment \& Human Development},
  year={2005},
  volume={7},
  pages={26 - 3}
}
This paper reports on a longitudinal study of children growing up in long-term foster family care. It focuses attention on the challenges for foster carers in providing a secure base for foster children in middle childhood and early adolescence, who have come predominantly from backgrounds of abuse, neglect, and psychosocial adversity. Separation and loss in the children's lives, often through multiple placements, increase the likelihood of difficulties across a range of development. These… 
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