title: Creative cooperation: involving biological parents in long-term foster care.
abstract: There are some children in care for whom "permanency" means a long-term foster family placement. The author suggests that permanency for these children requires facing the reality of their biological parents in some form of relationship.
mesh_terms: D000184:Acting Out; D000293:Adolescent; D000786:Anger; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002669:Child Welfare; D003142:Communication; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005196:Family Therapy; D005260:Female; D005581:Foster Home Care; D006801:Humans; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011368:Professional-Family Relations