Download or read book Factors Related to Multiple Foster Care Placements written by Sherry Hoang Smith and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this country there are approximately 510,000 children in the child welfare system. Of those, it is estimated 38% to 57% experience some type of disruption in their placement within 12 to 18 months of placement (Palmer 1996; Staff & Fein, 1995). Although the primary goal for foster care is to provide a stable home while children awaits reunification, nearly half experience at least one change of placement (COP) within an average length of stay of 28.3 months. In other words a child may experience a change from home to home, or from home to group home, or some other institution. A chart review was conducted on archival data of 3600 children who entered into a community mental health clinic for assessment during 2005-2008. Analysis shows COP children accounted for 20% of the total population of children receiving risk assessments. Children were assessed each time they change placement, which led to an influx in repeat assessment. COP assessments generated 40% of the total assessments. These individuals illustrated a population in which many experienced severe physical/sexual abuse or neglect, displayed disruptive behaviors, have been hospitalized for suicidal behaviors and has reported using drugs. Repeated movements may impair a child's ability to form secure attachments with caregivers as well as possible delinquent behaviors in the future. Demographic statistics, disruptive, risk and self-harm behaviors are analyzed between children with single placements and COP children. These findings were contextualized within and supplemented by a discussion section focused on clinical recommendations intended to aid COP children. The findings of this dissertation can aid in adding to our understanding of the needs of COP children and recognizing what multi-systemic solutions may be beneficial.
Download or read book Foster the Family written by Jamie C. Finn and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are great rewards that come along with being a foster parent, yet there are also great challenges that can leave you feeling depleted, alone, and discouraged. The many burdens of a foster parent's day--hurting children, struggling biological parents, and a broken system--are only compounded by the many burdens of a foster parent's heart--confusion, anxiety, heartache, anger, and fear. With the compassion and insight of a fellow foster parent, Jamie C. Finn helps you see your struggles through the lens of the gospel, bringing biblical truths to bear on your unique everyday realities. In these short, easy-to-read chapters, you'll find honest, personal stories and practical lessons that provide encouragement and direction from God's Word as you walk the journey of foster parenting.
Download or read book Some Factors Affecting Single and Multiple Foster Care Placements of Children written by Betty Ann Patterson and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kinship Foster Care written by Rebecca L. Hegar and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: KINSHIP FOSTER CARE: POLICY, PRACTICE, AND RESEARCH assembles the thinking and research of experts from several professional fields concerning what has become the fastest growing type of substitute care for children in state custody. The editors have contributed the initial and concluding chapters of the book and the lead chapter in each of its three sections.
Download or read book Exploring the Impact of Multiple Foster Care Placements Among Foster Youth and the Interventions that Address Multiple Placements A Systematic Literature Review written by Maria Carmela Hernandez and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The foster care system is important to placing children in safe homes until their homes of origin improve and become a stable environment for children who have experienced a myriad of negative experiences. These experiences can greatly impact the development among youth, one thing in particular is a solid foundation to grow. Yet, there are even issues within the foster care system that continue to negatively impact youth that are placed into care. This literature review provides an overview of multiple foster care placements and the impact it has on foster youth. Throughout each chapter will be a summarization of the foster care system and each theme to be found as a crucial factor to how youth experiencing multiple placements can negatively impact their development and growth. In concluding the specific factors that harm foster youth and interventions to solve the problem, discussion regarding implications for the social work field, directions for future research, advocacy recommendation, as well as a conclusion will be addressed.
Download or read book Foster Parent Perspective on Infant and Young Child Multiple Placement written by Ana Luisa Guardado and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study is to explore foster parents' perspectives' on factors contributing to multiple placements of young children with a special emphasis on infants ages 0-1 year. This study hopes to identify systemic problems within child welfare services that hinder permanency and to provide useful information to determine if current services and interventions are effective in meeting the agency's responsibility of providing safe and permanent homes for foster children.
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 Factors Associated with the Placement of Children Into Foster Care written by L. Trevor Grant and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 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 From Child Abuse to Permanency Planning written by and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than two million child abuse reports are filed annually on behalf of children in the United States. Each of the reported children becomes a concern, at least temporarily, of the professional who files the report, and each family is assessed by additional professionals. A substantial number of children in these families will subsequently enter foster care.
Download or read book Factors Associated with the Disposition of Children in Foster Care written by Betsy Cogburn and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No Way to Treat a Child written by Naomi Schaefer Riley and published by Bombardier Books. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kids in danger are treated instrumentally to promote the rehabilitation of their parents, the welfare of their communities, and the social justice of their race and tribe—all with the inevitable result that their most precious developmental years are lost in bureaucratic and judicial red tape. It is time to stop letting efforts to fix the child welfare system get derailed by activists who are concerned with race-matching, blood ties, and the abstract demands of social justice, and start asking the most important question: Where are the emotionally and financially stable, loving, and permanent homes where these kids can thrive? “Naomi Riley’s book reveals the extent to which abused and abandoned children are often injured by their government rescuers. It is a must-read for those seeking solutions to this national crisis.” —Robert L. Woodson, Sr., civil rights leader and president of the Woodson Center “Everyone interested in child welfare should grapple with Naomi Riley’s powerful evidence that the current system ill-serves the safety and well-being of vulnerable kids.” —Walter Olson, senior fellow, Cato Institute, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies
Download or read book Beyond Common Sense written by Fred Wulczyn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helping vulnerable children develop their full potential is an attractive idea with broad common-sense appeal. However, child well-being is a broad concept, and the legislative mandate for addressing well-being in the context of the current child welfare system is not particularly clear. This volume asserts that finding a place for well-being on the list of outcomes established to manage the child welfare system is not as easy as it first appears. The overall thrust of this argument is that policy should be evidence-based, and the available evidence is a primary focus of the book. Because policymakers have to make decisions that allocate resources, a basic understanding of incidence in the public health tradition is important, as is evidence that speaks to the question of what works clinically. The rest of the book addresses the evidence. Chapter 2 integrates bio-ecological and public health perspectives to give the evidence base coherence. Chapters 3 and 4 combine evidence from the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System, the Multistate Foster Care Data Archive, and the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being to offer an unprecedented profile of children as they enter the child welfare system. Chapters 5 and 6 address the broad question of what works. A concluding chapter focuses on policy and future directions, suggesting that children starting out, children starting school, and children starting adolescence are high-risk populations for which explicit strategies have to be formed. This timely volume offers useful insights into the child welfare system and will be of particular interest to policymakers, academics with an interest in Child Welfare Policy, Social Work educators, and Child Advocates.
Download or read book Interaction Effects of Multiple Levels of Disadvantage and Kinship Foster Care in African American Youth written by Anne Rufa and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child welfare services' current practice is to attempt to identify kinship foster settings first when removing a child from their home, a practice used disproportionately for African American youth. In this study, potential contextual factors of foster homes (i.e., community environment, caregiver's age, caregiver's physical health) were identified as possible moderators of the relationship between the type of out-of-home placement (i.e., kinship, other out-of-home placement) used and changes in internalizing and externalizing scores in African American youth. Results confirm a significant increase in internalizing and externalizing scores when youth are placed in kinship foster homes with caregivers who are older and in poorer health. In addition, kinship foster placements were preventative of increases in internalizing scores at 18-month follow-up. Results of this study are important in illustrating the need for child welfare services to consider multiple factors when choosing appropriate settings for youth removed from their homes.
Download or read book The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease written by Ruth A. Lanius and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is now ample evidence from the preclinical and clinical fields that early life trauma has both dramatic and long-lasting effects on neurobiological systems and functions that are involved in different forms of psychopathology as well as on health in general. To date, a comprehensive review of the recent research on the effects of early and later life trauma is lacking. This book fills an obvious gap in academic and clinical literature by providing reviews which summarize and synthesize these findings. Topics considered and discussed include the possible biological and neuropsychological effects of trauma at different epochs and their effect on health. This book will be essential reading for psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, mental health professionals, social workers, pediatricians and specialists in child development.
Download or read book Community Treatment for Youth written by Barbara J. Burns and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-30 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This outstanding textbook presents innovative interventions for youth with severe emotional and behavioral disorders. Community Treatment for Youth is designed to fill a gap between the knowledge base and clinical practice through its presentation of theory, practice parameters, training requirements, and research evidence. Featuring community-based and state-of-the-art services for youth with severe emotional and behavioral disorders and their families, this volume describes each intervention in depth, along with the supporting evidence for its utility. Most chapters present a single intervention as an alternative to institutional care. Shared characteristics of these interventions include delivery of services in the community (homes, schools, and neighborhoods) provided largely by parents and paraprofessional staff. The interventions are appropriate to use in any of the child human services sectors and have been developed in the field with real-world child and family clients. In addition, they offer a reduced cost in comparison to institutional care. Several chapters address diagnostic-specific psychosocial and psychopharmacological treatments, which are likely to be provided as adjunctive treatment in a clinical setting. Designed to update professionals in the field about effective services, Community Treatment for Youth will serve as a resource for academics, policymakers, practitioners, consumers, and researchers.
