Download or read book A Study on Foster Care Placement Breakdown Using Rational Choice Theory written by Rebecca C. Blodgett and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foster placement breakdown, wherein foster parents request the removal of their foster children, is detrimental to foster children and is linked to increased behavioral problems, poor academic growth, and housing instability later in life. This study utilized rational choice theory to explore how child (age, gender, race, health, behavior, history of sexual abuse victimization), foster family (number of caregivers, income), and case (TPR status) characteristics affect foster parents' decision-making processes regarding placement breakdown. A secondary analysis was performed on data from the National Survey on Child and Adolescent Well-being II (NSCAW II), a longitudinal study that followed 5,873 children from 83 counties in 30 states, to determine the extent to which child, foster family, and case characteristics are correlated with placement breakdown and potential placement breakdown in the future. A subsample of 280 cases was used. Logistic regressions indicated that in agreement with the hypothesis, each additional year of child age is correlated with a 19.0% (95% CI [1.050, 1.347]) increase in odds of actual placement breakdown and a 10.3% (95% CI [1.022, 1.190]) increase in odds of potential placement breakdown. It was also found that, in disagreement with the hypothesis, for children who had one biological parent with legal parental rights, the odds of potential placement breakdown (i.e., the unwillingness of foster caregivers to continue caring for children long-term) were 0.253 times (95% CI [0.114, 0.559]) that of children who had no biological parents with legal parental rights. No other significant relationships were found, indicating that rational choice theory applied to these data cannot fully explain why placement breakdown occurs.
Download or read book Decision in Child Care written by R. A. Parker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-07 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responsible decisions are continually being made in social work. In particular the decision to place a child in a foster home can have far-reaching consequences for their welfare and it is vital that we make the best possible choice on their behalf. Although in the 1960s thousands of children were boarded out every year no systematic attempt had yet been made to summarize this experience as a guide for practice. Thus important decisions lacked the help which past experience could provide. Originally published in 1966, this study assembled the past experience of foster care in one area, analysed it and presented it in such a way that predictions could be made of the outcome of a potential placement. At the time it offered an important contribution to the task of providing the best possible care for children separated from their own families. Today it can be read in its historical context.
Download or read book Foster Care and Best Interests of the Child written by Sarah A. Font and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief examines the U.S. foster care system and seeks to explain why the foster care system functions as it does and how it can be improved to serve the best interest of children. It defines and evaluates key challenges that undermine child safety and well-being in the current foster care system. Chapters highlight the competing values and priorities of the system as well as the pros and cons for the use of foster care. In addition, chapters assess whether the performance objectives in which states are evaluated by the federal government are sufficient to achieve positive health and well-being outcomes for children who experience foster care. Finally, it offers recommendations for improving the system and maximizing positive outcomes. Topics featured in this brief include: Legal aspects of removal and placement of children in foster care. The effectiveness of prior efforts to reform foster care. The regulation and quality of foster homes. Support for youth aging out of the foster care system. Racial and ethnic disparities in the foster care system. Foster Care and the Best Interests of the Child is a must-have resource for policy makers and related professionals, graduate students, and researchers in child and school psychology, family studies, public health, social work, law/criminal justice, and sociology.
Download or read book How Foster Children Turn Out written by State Charities Aid Association (N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Factors Contributing to Attrition and Placement Breakdown in Foster Care written by Kay-Megan Washington and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a partial rationale for high rates of placement disruptions and foster parent attrition, an exploratory study was conducted to explore whether professional burnout was applicable to a foster parent population. A text revision of the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey (MBI - HSS; Maslach, Jackson & Leiter, 1996) and a questionnaire requesting information on demographics and foster care experiences were administered to a purposive sample of 97 licensed foster parents. It was hypothesized that foster parents would manifest similar patterns of burnout to other human services samples studied. A correlational design was employed to examine whether relationships existed between measures of actual and perceived foster parent performance and each of the three MBI subscales: emotional exhaustion (EE), depersonalization (DP), and personal accomplishment (PA). Results indicated that the current sample differed significantly from Maslach, et al.'s (1996) normative sample in their average level of reported burnout. In addition, only EE was significantly correlated with how long participants estimated they would be willing to continue to foster. Exploratory analyses found that participants' expectations of how difficult fostering would be, the ages of both the foster parents and the children placed in their homes, and the length of time participants had been providing care may have important implications for positive placement outcomes and foster parent retention.
Download or read book The Role of Foster Care Placement in Later Problem Behavior written by Sangmoo Lee and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foster care placement is an important child welfare service to protect children from further maltreatment. However, high problem behavior rates among foster youth have been a great concern. Significant limitations in the current knowledge examining the role of foster care placement in later problem behavior exist. This study seeks to increase knowledge about the potential role of foster care placement in problem behavior (juvenile delinquency, runaway, teen pregnancy, and truancy) among foster care youth, based on ecological problem solving model. Research questions are: 1) does foster care placement predict problem behavior among children who received foster care compared to those receiving Family Preservation Service? 2) what aspects of foster care placement are associated with problem behavior? This study uses the sample from a larger longitudinal study investigating the life course of children involved with child welfare services in a Midwestern metropolitan area. The sample consists of children who experienced foster care placement, as well as a comparison group of children who had records of Family Preservation Service, but no foster care. All subjects were born between 1982 and 1994 and they were followed for the present study through 2006. For research question 1, the foster care group was divided into those who had foster care only and those with both foster care and FPS. Propensity score methods were used to make the groups comparable. Survival analyses found that foster care placement is associated with increased risk of juvenile delinquency, runaway, and teen pregnancy. However, the likelihood of the problem behavior was fully or partially offset by having Family Centered Services. Survival analyses of research question 2 found that foster care characteristics, such as placement for other reasons in addition to prior maltreatment, being older at first entry into foster care, staying in therapeutic setting for the first and the last placement, higher number of placement changes, and high number of foster cares spell predicted increased risk of one or multiple types of problem behavior. The constellation of variables and foster care characteristics varied for different outcome behaviors with the exception that FCS appeared consistently associated with reduced risk.
Download or read book Assessing the Long term Effects of Foster Care written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foster Care in Question a National Reassessment by Twenty one Experts written by Helen D. Stone and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Need for Foster Care written by Child Welfare League of America. Research Center and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foster Care in Five States written by Shirley M. Vasaly and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Factors in Judgments about Foster Care Placement written by Geraldine Chesnut and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Factors in Judgments about Foster Care Placement II written by Harold M. Barnett and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foster Care Study written by Susan Poulos and published by Research Department, Children's Aid Society of Vancouver. This book was released on 1972 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Placement of Foster Children in Group Care Facilities written by Rogers Takeshi Yoshikami and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exploratory Study on Related and Unrelated Foster Care Placement written by Ngenisiwe Ntombela and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-09 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social work as a profession has long been concerned with strategies for effectively helping troubled families. Some of these strategies are family preservation strategies. When these strategies are failed to work, one option available to social workers is the removal of children to substitute care. Deciding whether to remove a child from his or her biological parents into substitute care is one of the most difficult and sensitive responsibilities faced by Social workers and the children's court.
Download or read book Foster Care Breakdown written by Andrew Fenyo and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study of Predictors of Success in Foster Care written by Patricia W. Cautley and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
