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This paper highlights the professional socialization process of child and youth care workers from a new point of view, namely, focusing on the existential needs of beginning practitioners for a period of moratorium. The data gathered during an ethnographic study of newly recruited group workers in Israeli residential institutions led the authors to the conceptualization of a new model, the “Fostering Moratorium.”
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Grupper, E., Eisikovits, R.A. “Fostering Moratorium” in residential child and youth care education. Child Youth Care Forum 22, 177–192 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00757425
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