Challenges of Assessing Maltreated Children Coming into Foster Care

An ongoing randomized controlled trial in Glasgow, Scotland, recruiting infants entering foster care, provides a unique opportunity to explore some of the issues which need to be considered when assessing these children. The assessment data of 70 infants entering care is described while exploring the reliability of foster carers as informants and the importance of infant engagement with tasks.

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Rachel Pritchett, Harriet Hockaday, Beatrice Anderson, Claire Davidson, Christopher Gillberg, and Helen Minnis

Year of Publication:

2016

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