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Susan Partridge et al, Learning from adoption disruption: insights for practice, p. 11, Portland, Maine: University of Southern Maine, 1986.

Ibid., pp. 11–12.

Cohen Joyce S , Adoption breakdown with older children, p. 5, Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, 1981.

Ibid., p. 6

Ibid., pp. 8–9.

Ibid., p. 60.

Ibid., p. 64.

Cohen Joyce S Westhues Anne , How to reduce the risk: healthy functioning families for adoptive and foster children, University of Toronto Press, 1987.

see Epstein Nathan B et al, ‘McMaster model of family functioning: A view of the normal family’, pp. 115–129, in Normal family process, Walsh Froma (ed), New York: Guildford Press, 1982.

Margaret Adcock Richard White , Good-enough parenting: a framework for assessment, pp. 96–107, British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering, Practice Series 12, London, 1985.

John Fitzgerald , Understanding disruption, British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering, 1983.