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 Factors Contributing to the Breakdown of Foster Care Placements written by Rosina Mmamokete Mnisi and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quality Care for Tough Kids written by James A. Walsh and published by CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America). This book was released on 1990 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on three comprehensive studies of underachieving children in The Casey Family Program, this important work uncovers those factors that influence stable foster placements through the extensive use of correlational methods, including personal and demographic characteristics; child's responses to threat; family history; serious risk factors; placement history and present situation; foster family characteristics; placement breakdown factors; and caseworker's orientation.
Download or read book Children in Foster Care written by James Barber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researchers, practitioners, journalists and politicians increasingly recognise that foster care throughout the world is in a state of crisis. There are more and more children needing care and, as residential alternatives dry up, more of these children are being assigned to foster families. This book reports the major findings of a two-year longitudinal study of 235 such children who entered the foster care system in Southern Australia between 1998 and 1999. As well as examining the changing policy context of children's services, the book documents the psychosocial outcomes for these children, their feedback on their experiences of care, and the views of their social workers and carers. In the process, the book examines some cherished beliefs about foster care policy and sheds new light on them. The research reveals that while most children do quite well in foster care up to the two-year point, there is a worrying amount of placement instability at a time when the concentration of emotionally troubled children in care is increasing throughout the western world. Although, surprisingly, placement instability does not appear to produce psychosocial impairment for a period of up to eight months in care, it has an extreme effect on children who are moved from placement to placement because no carer will tolerate their behaviour. These children are consigned to a life of distribution and emotional upheaval because of the lack of alternative forms of care. Another unexpected finding of the research is that increasing the rate of parental contact achieves little or nothing in relation to the likelihood of family reunification. As child welfare increasingly enters a world of research-based practice, Children in Foster Care provides some much needed hard evidence of how foster care policy and practice can be improved.
Download or read book Retaining Foster Parents written by Misty Marie Samya and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this study was to uncover factors that contributed to the decision to continue or stop foster parenting from a social exchange theory perspective. The study sample consisted of 53 former foster parents and 101 current foster parents. Participants completed a survey designed to examine how four variables--quality and availability of services to support foster care provision, respect and recognition given by caseworkers, financial assistance and work benefits, and crisis response of caseworkers--related to foster parents' decisions to continue or give up fostering. The first research hypothesis was that high or low satisfaction for these variables would predict those who continued to foster and those who had quit, respectively. Logistic regression analysis did not support this hypothesis. Further examination of those participants who had stopped fostering identified an over-representation of those who had fostered in order to adopt, a problem for the study since this group may not have set out to foster long term. Those participants were selected out and further analyses were conducted comparing mean scores of those who quit (and presumably were not fostering to adopt) and those still fostering. This further analysis also failed to support the hypothesis. The second hypothesis was that those who were still fostering and who indicated a commitment to continue would evidence higher satisfaction on the four variables. A within-group analysis employing simple regression supported a directional relationship between commitment to continue and all variables, except perceived satisfaction with financial assistance and work benefits. The report concludes with a discussion and possible explanations for the findings and potential policy implications.
Download or read book Foster Parents Perceptions of Factors that Lead to Placement Breakdown written by Silvia Mandujano and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Why are Kids in Foster Care written by Rick R. Leon and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Creating Stable Foster Placements written by Alyson Rees and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andy Pithouse and Alyson Rees use original research to identify key ingredients needed to help create successful foster placements and help prevent placement breakdown. In this study the lives and activities of 10 foster families who provide lasting and effective care are examined. The families' everyday world of meanings, negotiations, activities, settings, rituals and relationships that help to create these successful placements, are explored. The authors identify the main components that, according to the carers and the children, contribute to acceptance, belonging and stability in the family. The book examines the emotional and practical work involved in caring, and explores how it is received and reciprocated by fostered young people. With important insights into child and carer perspectives on fostering, What Works in Foster Care is a source of invaluable information for foster carers, children's service professionals, and trainees and care staff more generally who may be engaged with children who are looked after.
Download or read book An Exploration of the Factors that Contribute to Placement Instability for Foster Care Children and Interventions to Address the Problem written by Brenda Sanchez and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placement instability in foster care affects a large number of children and considered to be the biggest issue affecting children in foster care (Steen & Harlow, 2012). This thesis project sought to increase our understanding of the causes of this instability. This project was guided by two research questions: 1) What factors contribute to placement instability for foster care children? 2) Among foster care children, what effect do parent only intervention programs have in comparison to parent-child intervention programs in promoting placement stability? The 45 studies, primarily cross-sectional and quasi-experimental, included in the two systematic literature reviews were found through the California State University of Los Angeles database and Google Scholar. The studies included in this project revealed that children's problematic behaviors and untrained foster parents were the leading causes for placement instability. Results indicated that Incredible years, Promoting First Relationships, Keeping Foster Parents Trained and Supported, and Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care for Preschoolers have components that were effective in increasing parenting skills thus placement instability. Recommendations for practice includes utilizing the findings to inform micro and macro practice in child welfare along with recommendations for future research utilizing longitudinal studies with ethnically diverse samples.
Download or read book How Does Foster Care Work written by Elizabeth Fernandez and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Does Foster Care Work? is an international collection of empirical studies on the outcomes of children in foster care. Drawing on research and perspectives from leading international figures in children's services across the developed world, the book provides an evidence base for programme planning, policy and practice. This volume establishes a platform for comparison of international systems, trends and outcomes in foster care today. Each contributor provides a commentary on one other chapter to highlight the global significance of issues affecting children and young people in care. Each chapter offers new ideas about how foster care could be financed, delivered or studied in order to become more effective. This book is important reading for anyone involved in delivering child welfare services, such as administrators, practitioners, researchers, policy makers, children's advocates, academics and students.
Download or read book Factors Leading to Placement of Children Into Foster Care written by Marie-Reine Lepage and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fostering Now written by Ian Sinclair and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2005-05-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * What are the consequences of fostering for children, their carers and their birth families? * What are the best ways of recruiting, retaining and supporting foster carers? * What are the most important elements of a successful placement? * Can foster care offer a permanent alternative to care at home? Fostering Now brings together authoritative research on foster care in the UK. It provides a succinct overview of a wide range of research projects and highlights the main implications for policymakers and all professionals involved in the fostering process. Drawing on the varied experiences and views of foster children, social workers, foster carers and parents, this book looks at how placement outcomes are influenced by factors such as foster carers' parenting styles, contact with the child's own parents, and the child's gender, ethnicity, age and physical and emotional health. Other important areas examined include care given by relatives, the effects of foster care on education, and what happens to foster children when they return home. Fostering Now identifies the most significant challenges currently faced by foster care and draws out the key messages for policy and practice. It offers important insights into the state of foster care today, and suggests how it can be improved in future. This book is essential reading for social workers, policy makers, academics and foster carers.
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 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 Breakdown of Foster Care Placement Carer Perspectives and System Factors written by Robyn Gilbertson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Placement Breakdown in Foster Care written by Anne Marije Maaskant and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis started by focusing on Dutch foster children’s well-being, emotional and behavioral functioning and placement stability. Subsequently, we attempted to identify how foster families who are considered to be at a high risk of placement breakdown could be given effective support. The findings from our studies demonstrate that a considerable proportion of foster children are functioning well, but that approximately half of the foster children suffer from problems at a clinical or borderline level, the level associated with placement breakdown. The transactional or bio-ecological perspective on foster child adjustment and foster family functioning, which acknowledges the importance of foster families’ different ecologies, was presented as a useful approach for systematically screening for risks and protective factors and subsequently organizing evidence based interventions to support foster families. Using a randomized controlled trial (n = 86), we examined the effectiveness of Parent Management Training Oregon (PMTO) for foster children (aged 4-12) with severe externalizing behavior problems in long-term foster arrangement. At the first sight, PMTO seems a promising direction for reducing foster care stress. However, the hypothesized added value of PMTO, above and beyond CAU, to improve parenting practices and child functioning could not be confirmed in this study. It is recognized that in these highly burdened foster families, many stressors have to be addressed effectively in order to reduce the risk of placement breakdown. This strategy is in need of thorough investigation, along with a number of related themes for future research outlined in this thesis.
Download or read book Factors Contributing to the Success Or Failure of Foster Home Placement written by Joanna M. Haight and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
