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Peer reviewedShapiro, Deborah – Social Work, 1973
Analysis of the findings revealed patterns involving caseworker--family contact, caseworker stability and experience, and caseload ratio. The initially favorable impact of the assets that an agency puts into the service of children placed in foster care diminishes over time. This was indicated by a five-year study involving seventy agencies in the…
Descriptors: Caseworkers, Followup Studies, Foster Children, Foster Homes
