Download or read book Effect of Foster Parent Training Programs on Satisfaction and Skill Retention written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treatment foster care is a growing family-based intervention used to rehabilitate abused and traumatized children, however little research has been done to evaluate the effectiveness of initial training for treatment foster care programs. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of two local training programs both over time and compared to each other. The first is the Parenting Skills Training program by People Places, Inc. (a private, not-for-profit program) and the second is the PRIDE program by the Virginia Department of Social Services. Parents recently post-training and parents approximately one year post-training with both programs were interviewed over the telephone. Four major dependent variables were evaluated: parent satisfaction, skill recall, skill recognition, and skill application. Results will be used to improve both programs.
Download or read book The Impact of Burnout Compassion Fatigue and Compassion Satisfaction on Foster Parenting written by Kimberly Bradford McLain and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite findings within the literature indicating the negative effects on professionals who work with clients, there is a lack of research examining the impact of burnout and compassion fatigue on foster parents. Burnout, compassion fatigue, and compassion satisfaction utilizing the Professional Quality of Life Scale (ProQoL), and personal, work, and client burnout utilizing the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI) in a foster parent population were investigated. In addition, age, education level, time as a foster parent, number of children fostering, number of sexually abused children fostered, number of adults, work, religion, exercise, therapy, support groups, annual hours of training, and personal history of trauma were examined. Results indicate foster parents in this study have low levels of burnout, compassion fatigue, work burnout, and client burnout, but high levels of compassion satisfaction, and personal burnout. Findings suggest that foster parents experience great satisfaction from their work with foster children, even though they are experiencing burnout on a personal level, indicating they may not be attributing negative effects from foster parenting to their work with foster children. Compassion satisfaction, having a personal history of trauma, involvement with religion, exercise, and foster care trainings may serve to promote resiliency, while decreasing burnout and compassion fatigue. Findings of this study have direct implications for foster parents, and foster care professionals. Suggestions for the future direction of training, program development and future research studies are presented.
Download or read book A Comparative Investigation of the Effectiveness of Two Foster Parent Training Programs written by Jean-Claude Dutès and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Comparative Study of the Effects of Two Foster Parent Training Methods on Attitudes of Parental Acceptance Sensitivity to Children and General Foster Parent Attitudes written by David L. Brown and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Training of Foster Parents written by Lucile Ruth Sands and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Parenting Matters written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades of research have demonstrated that the parent-child dyad and the environment of the familyâ€"which includes all primary caregiversâ€"are at the foundation of children's well- being and healthy development. From birth, children are learning and rely on parents and the other caregivers in their lives to protect and care for them. The impact of parents may never be greater than during the earliest years of life, when a child's brain is rapidly developing and when nearly all of her or his experiences are created and shaped by parents and the family environment. Parents help children build and refine their knowledge and skills, charting a trajectory for their health and well-being during childhood and beyond. The experience of parenting also impacts parents themselves. For instance, parenting can enrich and give focus to parents' lives; generate stress or calm; and create any number of emotions, including feelings of happiness, sadness, fulfillment, and anger. Parenting of young children today takes place in the context of significant ongoing developments. These include: a rapidly growing body of science on early childhood, increases in funding for programs and services for families, changing demographics of the U.S. population, and greater diversity of family structure. Additionally, parenting is increasingly being shaped by technology and increased access to information about parenting. Parenting Matters identifies parenting knowledge, attitudes, and practices associated with positive developmental outcomes in children ages 0-8; universal/preventive and targeted strategies used in a variety of settings that have been effective with parents of young children and that support the identified knowledge, attitudes, and practices; and barriers to and facilitators for parents' use of practices that lead to healthy child outcomes as well as their participation in effective programs and services. This report makes recommendations directed at an array of stakeholders, for promoting the wide-scale adoption of effective programs and services for parents and on areas that warrant further research to inform policy and practice. It is meant to serve as a roadmap for the future of parenting policy, research, and practice in the United States.
Download or read book Resources for Foster Parents Effecting Placement Disruptions written by Victoria C. Pagán and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a half million youth in the United States are being cared for by the child welfare system on any given day. Foster children are arranged to live and to be cared for emotionally, physically, mentally, and socially by foster parents who are certified by their respective state. Research investigated foster parents' abilities to access the necessary resources and supports that can enhance their knowledge, parenting skills, and retention rates for being a guardian to a foster child. Foster parents who receive specialized trainings and/or have access to an abundance of resources are better equipped to manage, respond, and support the foster child in their care. Adequate trainings and resources also led to results of foster children having an increase of placement stability. Research presented results that when foster parents don't receive specialized trainings or resources this affects both the foster parent and foster child. Foster parents will experience an increase of stress, feeling burnt out, and use ineffective parenting styles which correlates with an increase of placement disruptions. When foster children experience placement instabilities this increases externalizing behaviors and decrease their sense of security and attachment to trusted adults. Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC) and Keeping Kin and Foster Parents Supported and Trained (KEEP) are two models supported in the literature that are heavily utilized to train foster parents in. Both MTFC and KEEP supported to reduce placement instabilities and empowered foster parents to effectively parent foster children that require a high attention of care. Further research is required to identify other effective resources and trainings for foster parents.
Download or read book Vibrant and Healthy Kids written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2019-12-27 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children are the foundation of the United States, and supporting them is a key component of building a successful future. However, millions of children face health inequities that compromise their development, well-being, and long-term outcomes, despite substantial scientific evidence about how those adversities contribute to poor health. Advancements in neurobiological and socio-behavioral science show that critical biological systems develop in the prenatal through early childhood periods, and neurobiological development is extremely responsive to environmental influences during these stages. Consequently, social, economic, cultural, and environmental factors significantly affect a child's health ecosystem and ability to thrive throughout adulthood. Vibrant and Healthy Kids: Aligning Science, Practice, and Policy to Advance Health Equity builds upon and updates research from Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity (2017) and From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development (2000). This report provides a brief overview of stressors that affect childhood development and health, a framework for applying current brain and development science to the real world, a roadmap for implementing tailored interventions, and recommendations about improving systems to better align with our understanding of the significant impact of health equity.
Download or read book The Effects of a Foster Parent Training Program on Placement Outcomes and Foster Parent Turnover written by Claud Earl McCary and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Redefining Family Policy written by Joyce M. Mercier and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed at social scientists, this book discusses family policy in general and the New Federalism in particular, and experimental implementation of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWOA) in the United States. Here, emphasis in family policy is shifted from a centralized entitlement approach to an exchange of personal responsibility, work, and training for better support services.
Download or read book A Study on the Effects of a Parent Training Program on the Behavior of Foster Parents and Their Foster Children written by Suzanne Jeri Yockelson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foster Carers written by Ian Sinclair and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foster care, which can include both long- and short-term placements, is the most common way in which local authorities look after other people's children. Examining the problems and the positive experiences of those providing care, Foster Carers is essential reading for social work professionals, academics and foster carers themselves. Through questionnaire responses from over a thousand foster carers across seven different local authorities, the authors highlight the importance of identifying and fulfilling appropriate kinds of care; the need to recruit and retain carers; and, finally, examin.
Download or read book Foster Parent Recruitment Retention and Training written by Patricia Del Valle and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Training Foster Parents to Serve Dependent Children written by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foster Parent Satisfaction and Retention written by Ruth Maria Albarran and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study proposed to explore several factors that promote foster parent satisfaction in order to preserve quality foster homes to serve the 532,000 displaced children currently in the child welfare system. A sample of 52 foster parents were surveyed to determine overall satisfaction with their foster care experience at Children's Way Foster Family Agency in San Bernardino, California. It was hypothesized that the higher the level of foster parent satisfaction, the higher rates of retention. A modified version of an existing instrument titled "Foster Parent Satisfaction Survey" was utilized in this study.
Download or read book Handbook of Foster Youth written by Elizabeth Trejos-Castillo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Currently, there are over 400,000 youth living in foster care in the United States, with over 20,000 aging out of the child welfare system each year. Foster youth are more prone to experience short- and long-term adverse developmental outcomes including diminished academic achievement and career opportunities, poor mental and overall health, financial struggles, homelessness, early sexual intercourse, and substance abuse, many of these outcomes are risk factors for involvement in the juvenile justice system. Despite their challenges, foster youth have numerous strengths and positive assets that carry them through their journeys, helping them to overcome obstacles and build resilience. The Handbook of Foster Youth brings together a prominent group of multidisciplinary experts to provide nuanced insights on the complex dynamics of the foster care system, its impact on youth’s lives, and the roles of institutions and policies in the foster system. It discusses current gaps and future directions as well as recommendations to advance the field. This book provides an opportunity to reflect on the many challenges and strengths of foster youth and the child welfare system, and the combined efforts of caregivers, community volunteers, policy makers, and the professionals and researchers who work with them.
Download or read book A Training Program written by Courtney M. Mattiace and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On any given day, more than half a million youth reside in foster care within the United States (Bruskas, 2008; Child Welfare League of America, 2006). Prior to placement, many of these youth have experienced prolonged and substantiated maltreatment such as abuse and neglect, (Levitt, 2009, Sprang, Clark, Kaak, & Brenzel, 2004), which may predispose them to various mental health issues that warrant mental health care (Landsverk, Burns, Stambaugh, & Reutz, 2009). These mental health needs, which far exceed those of their same aged counterparts not residing in foster care, however, may not being adequately addressed by our child welfare or mental health system (Levitt, 2009). Additionally, research suggests that few foster parents receive appropriate and sufficient training to deal with the specific emotional and behavioral problems of the children placed in their care, resulting in lowered foster parent satisfaction levels and multiple failed placements (Barth, Green, Webb, Wall, Gibbons, & Craig, 2008; Chamberlain, Price, Reid, & Landsverk, 2008; Redding, Fried, & Britner, 2000). Based on the literature, it is this author's belief, that one specific mental health concern of youth in foster care is self-injurious behaviors. This belief is based on research, which identifies common environmental and individual risk factors amongst both individuals who engage in acts of self-injury and youth placed in foster care (Claes, Vandereycken & Vertommen, 2004; Gratz, 2006; Strong, 1998; Suyemoto & MacDonald, 1995, van der Kolk, Perry & Herman, 1991; van der Kolk, McFarlane & Weisaeth, 1996; & Walsh, 2006). Although a paucity of research exists on the exact prevalence rates of self-injurious behavior amongst the foster care population, literature which indicates the need for foster parents to receive increased training on the potential various mental health issues of youth in care is overwhelming. The present work consists of a psycho-educational training program designed to be implemented by certified foster parent trainers and administered to licensed foster parents. This six-hour training was developed from an integration of the research on effective treatments for self-injurious behaviors amongst adolescents, as well as the literature examining the unique mental health needs of youth placed in foster care. The training program utilizes a multi-modal format including case vignettes, role plays, questionnaires, and group activities in conjunction with lecture, to help foster parents become familiar with the current research on self-injurious behaviors and the special risk factors of the youth placed in their home. The training also includes strategies that foster parents can utilize to effectively parent a youth who self-injures, which include communication skills, a suicide assessment protocol, information on how to navigate the mental health system, and resources for support. The implications and limitations of this training, as well as areas of future research are discussed.
