An Examination of Post-permanency Adjustment and Discontinuity for Older Foster Youth in Adoptive and Guardianship Homes
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screening phase. The same six inclusion criteria above were also applied to select full-text articles for the final sample. In addition, snowball sampling (Contandriopoulos, Lemire, Denis, & Tremblay, 2010; Hesse-Biber & Leavy, 2011) was implemented to locate more studies. Specifically, the references lists of all full-text articles were searched to find
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