I. Impact of social and legal policies on placement
Intervention versus interference: the role of the courts in child placement / Sharon Gross Portwood and N. Dickon Reppucci
The plight of homeless children / Ellen L. Bassuk and Linda Weinreb
Consequences of placement for children who are abused / Virginia G. Weisz
Mental health policy and the psychiatric inpatient care of children: implications for families / Charles A. Kiesler. II. Alternative families
Temporary foster care: separating and reunifying families / Inger P. Davis and Elissa Ellis-MacLeod
The Casey Family Program: factors in effective management of a long-term foster care organization / Ruth Massinga and Ken Perry
Not under my heart, but in it: families by adoption / Loraine Masters Glidden.
III. Residential placement
Placement and its consequences for families with children who have mental retardation / Jan Blacher
Comprehensive service programming for children with autism and their families / Stephen R. Anderson, Susan F. Thibadeau, and Walter P. Christian
Residential treatment for children with dual diagnoses of mental retardation and mental disorder / Steven I. Pfeiffer and Bruce L. Baker. IV. Reconceptualizing placement
To have and to share: culturally constituted fostering in familial settings / Janet E. Kilbride and Philip L. Kilbride
Commentary: a social policy perspective / Emmy E. Werner.
