The sample : characteristics and reasons for placement
Placements and destinations
A kind of loving : the children's accounts
Outcomes
Explanations : social worker and carer accounts
The case studies
Spirals of interaction
Measuring success
Foster children : characteristics, personalities and problems
Birth families : characteristics and patterns of contact
Foster families : characteristics, reactions to child and approach of main carer
Social work support
Other forms of support
Change and containment.
Foster placements : why they succeed and why they fail by Ian Sinclair. ISBN 9781843101734. Published by Jessica Kingsley in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.