Resolving Conflicts in Foster Care

Some situations in social work practice contain so much potential for conflict that workers would benefit from training in conflict resolution. Foster family care is a prime example. This paper describes a method of helping workers understand the sources of conflict in foster family care and ways of resolving conflicts constructively. It starts from the premise that there are unique problems in the foster family care situation. The roles and relationships created by placement give the participants different and often incompatible perspectives. In theory, the worker, the agency, the foster family, the foster child and the natural

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