title: Ambivalences: a challenge to permanency for children.
abstract: A key to determining a permanent plan for children in placement lies in determining and working with the history and relative intensity of parental ambivalence in the parent-child relationship as it is acted out in the placement experience. A study of cases in a public department disclosed not only indicators of parental ambivalence but also the reinforcement of that ambivalence by agency policy, working conditions, and lack of resources.
authors.affiliation: Indiana University School of Social Work, Indianapolis.
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Hess
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Folaron
mesh_terms: D000300:Adoption / Q000523:psychology; D001290:Attitude; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D002669:Child Welfare; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D005581:Foster Home Care / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D012931:Social Environment; D012947:Social Work