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Clinical aspects of the training of foster parents

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This paper recognizes that training programs for foster parents are as good as their implementation for which the author emphasizes the need for clinical expertise. It is important to help foster parents emphasize and understand issues of grief over loss and separation and the child's expressions through behavior. Techniques to help foster parents with these issues are identified.

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  1. ChildServ Illinois, 1580 N. Northwest Highway, 60068, Park Ridge, Il.

    W. Ann Duclos M.S.W. (Director of Family Interventions)

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Duclos, W.A. Clinical aspects of the training of foster parents. Child Adolesc Soc Work J 4, 39–46 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00756456

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