Download or read book Foster Parents Perceptions of Their Knowledge Skills and Abilities in Relation to the Behavioral Challenges of Foster Youth written by Melissa Erin Hall and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complex, long-term, and prevalent behavioral problems and needs of foster children and youth continue to be documented (Farmer et al., 2010; United States Department of Health and Human Services [USDHHS], 2005). However, research indicates that foster parents are not adequately prepared or trained to address these challenging behaviors (e.g. Dorsey et al., 2008; Lee & Holland, 1991; Puddy & Jackson, 2003). Foster parent perspectives and the inclusion of their input concerning foster parenting and the behavioral problems of foster youth are needed to examine this crucial problem area (Park & Helton, 2010). The intent of this multi-case study was to explore foster parents' perceptions of their knowledge, skills, and abilities to address the behavioral challenges of foster youth. More specifically, this study examined what foster parents perceive they need to help successfully fulfill their fostering role

Download or read book Treatment foster parents perceptions of their role with the primary family of foster youth written by Sheila M. Schmaltz and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Practical Tools for Foster Parents written by Lana Temple-Plotz and published by Boys Town Press. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than half a million children today live in out-of-home care, and many have special problems. The need for well-trained, loving foster parents has never been greater. With this book, Girls and Boys Town offers these committed people the professional tools they need to not only care for foster children but to actually help them get better. Our approach to foster care focuses on building relationships with children, teaching them skills, and empowering them by teaching self-discipline and self-control. Foster parents will find effective, research-based solutions for these common concerns: Building a warm, trusting relationship with a foster child who still may have a strong attachment to his or her original family. Working with the foster child's parents who may be uncooperative or even hostile. Creating a safe environment for the foster child, you, and your family. Respecting the foster child's ethnic and cultural background while teaching the child skills to help him or her succeed in the larger world. Learning how to handle "blow ups" and prevent and correct misbehavior while staying calm. Teaching a foster child how to stay under control, solve problems, and make good decisions even when he or she is angry or frustrated. Handling transitions when a foster child moves to another placement or returns home. New or experienced foster parents as well as grand-parents and other relatives caring for a child forced from home by a crisis will find help and hope in Practical Tools for Foster Parents.

Download or read book Foster Parents Perceptions of Adolescents in Foster Care written by Heather Rosa and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to explore the attitudes of foster parents about adolescents in foster care. This study was guided using a qualitative method and exploratory research by design. There were two major questions used in this study, namely, the perceptions of foster parents regarding adolescents that have been placed in their home, and what type of knowledge or training would assist foster parents to care for an adolescent foster youth. A total of eight participants were recruited and interviewed for this study. Results indicated that many foster parents view the adolescents as a difficult population, but fostering them can be a rewarding experience. The findings also identified that foster parents feel that they do not receive adequate support or communication from county social workers. The key findings also suggest that foster parents may need more individual time to relax and that a local agency can provide support and assistance to the foster parent, as well as the adolescent. Training would be an important aspect to recruit potential foster parents, giving them tools to deal with the possible difficulties that may arise when dealing with problem behaviors.

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 Preparing Adolescents for Life After Foster Care written by Anthony N. Maluccio and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, attention has been given in the foster family care literature to adolescents' readiness for living on their own following aging out of their foster care placement. This book offers ideas on ways to help adolescents master the tasks required to successfully prepare for independent living following discharge from foster care. It is practice-oriented and draws upon the experience of researchers, trainers, consultants, and families. The chapters in Part 1 examine the various dimensions of the problem including the concept of interdependence as the goal of services for this population. It also discusses recruiting foster parents, examining adolescent development, and the need for these young people to mourn their losses before they can move on. Part 2 considers meeting the challenges of preparing these adolescents for life after foster care from the perspective of policy and program. Emphasis is placed on the importance of involving biological parents as resources for adolescents and the resources that black foster parents offer to teenagers in their care. Part 3 focuses on practice methods and strategies in work with adolescents and their foster parents. Also discussed are the needs of minority teenagers; problems of maltreatment; discipline; and assessment tools that can measure the independent-living skills of adolescents. (Contains over 300 references.) (JDM)

Download or read book The Foster Care Survival Guide written by John DeGarmo and published by Atlantic Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foster parenting is often seen as a calling and a mission of love. At the same time, foster parenting can be both very difficult and exhausting. When caring for children who have suffered abuse, neglect, and traumas, foster parents face their own set of unique challenges each day. The Foster Care Survival Guide is a must have for today’s foster parents. It is a guide to surviving the lifestyle of a foster parent filled with personal stories, practical tips and advice, and even humor and emotions, The Foster Care Survival Guide is an essential guide for both novice and experienced foster parents. Leading foster care expert Dr. John DeGarmo combines his own wisdom with that of fellow foster parents. Tackling issues such as helping children with disorders and anxieties, how to best manage the lifestyle of a foster parent, working with birth parents, getting the help you need, addressing your own marriage while caring for children in need, and balancing the needs of your biological children with your foster children, The Foster Care Survival Guide delivers experienced and sympathetic wisdom and advice that every foster parent, advocate, and professional needs today as they care for children in care.

Download or read book The Supportive Foster Parent written by Dr Kalyani Gopal and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By empowering our foster parents to be more successful, we empower our foster children to heal and increase their future chances of succeeding in life, thereby breaking the cycle of abuse and neglect from their biological family.

Download or read book Child Welfare for the Twenty first Century written by Gerald P. Mallon and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-14 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This up-to-date and comprehensive resource by leaders in child welfare is the first book to reflect the impact of the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) of 1997. The text serves as a single-source reference for a wide array of professionals who work in children, youth, and family services in the United States-policymakers, social workers, psychologists, educators, attorneys, guardians ad litem, and family court judges& mdash;and as a text for students of child welfare practice and policy. Features include: * Organized around ASFA's guiding principles of well-being, safety, and permanency * Focus on evidence-based "best practices" * Case examples integrated throughout * First book to include data from the first round of National Child and Family Service Reviews Topics discussed include the latest on prevention of child abuse and neglect and child protective services; risk and resilience in child development; engaging families; connecting families with public and community resources; health and mental health care needs of children and adolescents; domestic violence; substance abuse in the family; family preservation services; family support services and the integration of family-centered practices in child welfare; gay and lesbian adolescents and their families; children with disabilities; and runaway and homeless youth. The contributors also explore issues pertaining to foster care and adoption, including a focus on permanency planning for children and youth and the need to provide services that are individualized and culturally and spiritually responsive to clients. A review of salient systemic issues in the field of children, youth, and family services completes this collection.

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.

Download or read book Understanding Children in Foster Care written by Wendy Kelly and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the Relational Learning Framework (RLF), an assessment tool which helps foster care practitioners, social workers and foster carers to examine what foster children have learned in their early life about relationships and particularly through maltreatment. Grounded in attachment theory and drawing on cognitive theory this book will help practitioners to understand and respond to the challenging behaviour presented by these children and remove barriers to an empathic response. Early chapters provide context in a theoretical discourse on the causes and consequences of psychological and attachment difficulties for children in care, including a discussion of maltreatment and foster care. The theoretical basis of the technique will be outlined and subsequent chapters will explain how to undertake RLF including the wide-ranging practice evidence, a worked example, common themes and trouble shooting. This will be an invaluable source for clinical practitioners, social workers, foster care practitioners and foster parents who want to make sense of the complex information about children in foster care to improve their relationships. It will also provide insight into foster children’s mental health and behaviour for academics and postgraduate students in related disciplines.

Download or read book Foster Parent Perceptions of Emotional Intelligence written by Samantha N. Long and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current study seeks to address foster parents' knowledge of a concept known as Emotional Intelligence, which is a person's ability to label and understand one's own emotions, as well as the emotions of others. This study also seeks to understand foster parents' ability to promote Emotional Intelligence and recognize emotions and change in emotions among children. Few studies to date address the emotional needs specific to the foster care population and how foster parents can best support social and emotional development in this population. The study found foster parents' demonstrated the ability to notice change in emotions of their foster children. Additional findings suggest that foster parents who value emotional expression are likely to engage in conversations regarding emotions. Foster parents must have a clear understanding of the value of Emotional Intelligence in order to follow through with behaviors which support Emotional Intelligence.

Download or read book Predictors of Foster Parents Home based Academic Involvement with Their Foster Youth written by Jonelle Alicia Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parental involvement in children's education has been associated with children's academic success; however, little is known about the academic involvement of foster parents with their foster youth or their understanding of their roles and responsibilities related to education. The primary purpose of this study was to explore associations between and among factors that have been relevant in the general literature around academic success and foster parents' academic involvement. This study explored the relationship between these factors of parental self-efficacy, knowledge and skills, time and energy, and the foster child's invitation, and home-based academic involvement practices of foster parents. A secondary goal was to examine foster parents' understanding of their educational roles and responsibilities related to education, as well as the areas of confusion regarding those roles. A self-reported, online questionnaire was provided to 140 current or past foster parents of middle and high school aged foster youth. Ordinal regression analyses were conducted to examine the associations between the foster parents' self-efficacy, knowledge and skills, time and energy, the foster child's invitation, and the foster parents' home-based academic involvement practices. In addition, descriptive and bivariate analyses tested for associations between the motivators of home-based involvement and the foster parents' understanding of their roles and responsibilities. Results demonstrated that foster parents' self-efficacy, perception of their knowledge and skills, and the receipt of invitations from their foster child for assistance, were predictive of their level of home-based academic involvement. However, time and energy were not associated with involvement. Results also showed that foster parents generally lacked clarity on who had the authority to initially access services or to execute those services. Even for common services such as time management and study skills, approximately half of the foster parents thought it was their responsibility and the other half thought it was the professional staff (case managers and educational specialists). Findings are discussed in the context of study limitations and implications for practice and research.

Download or read book Treatment Foster Care written by Patricia Chamberlain and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Relationships Among Perceptions of Foster Care Personality Traits and Willingness to Foster written by Callie Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The number of children in foster care continues to rise with 442,995 in foster care according to the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) Report, (2018). Although many scholarly articles on the foster care system have been published in recent years, limited studies existing on efforts to recruit with kinship or non-related foster parents. With the number of foster children placed in non-related foster homes outnumbering those in kinship homes, the present study is designed to increase understanding of how knowledge of the foster care system, perceptions of the foster care system and foster parents, and personality traits of agreeableness, openness, and conscientiousness impacts prospective foster parents willingness to foster a non-related or kinship child. One finding from the study was that only the personality trait of Conscientiousness predicted willingness to foster a non-related child with R = .195, R2 =.038, F(1,78) =.3.068, p = .084. Another outcome of the study showed that Perceptions of the Foster Care system and the personality trait of Conscientiousness predicted willingness to foster a kinship child at R = .195, R2=.038, F(1,78) =.3.068, p = .084, and R = .187, change in R2= .035, F(1,78) = 2.834, p = .096 respectively. This is one of the first exploratory studies to contribute to the identification of personality traits or knowledge or perceptions of the foster care system with the potential to predict willingness to foster either non-related of kinship children. Future research in this area should continue in attempts to close the gaps between the number of children entering into foster care and the number of foster homes available for them.

Download or read book Contributing Factors to Successful Emancipated Foster Youth written by Rita A. Williams-Washington and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When children in foster care turn 18, they are, for the most part, on their own. They are "called emancipated"; they are legally adults free from the foster care system. But many leave foster care with no job or income, few educational prospects and little emotional support or community connections. There is a lack of knowledge regarding the effectiveness of services. Another challenge to improving policy and practice directed towards foster youth transitions to adulthood is the poor knowledge base supporting existing interventions. The vast majority of the existing research has relied upon caseworker ratings, self-reporting by foster parents, and identity information related to placement disruptions and placement success. Researchers must take into account the important role that foster youth perception plays in determining the child's goal and success or failure of placement. From an Interpretive Perspective this research focused on the concept of resiliency. This study evaluated the perceptions of successful independent young adults regarding their life experience after foster care focused on their personal strengths; resiliency.

Download or read book Exploring Foster Parents Perceptions of Their Role in Encouraging Foster Youth to Pursue a Post secondary Education written by Kristen Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foster youth in general tend to experience less success in terms of education compared to their non-foster youth peers. One possible explanation for this discrepancy is the fact that foster youth may lack the parental support that has been shown to be a very important factor in a youth's education. Parental support can be a very important motivating factor when deciding whether or not to pursue a post-secondary education. Majority of foster youth have been removed from their biological parents and placed into the care of foster parents. This qualitative study surveys foster parents to determine what they believe their role is when it comes to encouraging foster youth to pursue a post-secondary education. In addition, this study looks at the ways in which foster parents encourage their youth as well as any changes in the amount of encouragement they provide as a result of the AB 12 legislation. A total of seven surveys were collected from foster parents affiliated with a Foster Family Agency in the Central Valley. Results of this study show that a majority of the foster parents surveyed agree that it is part of their role to encourage their foster youth to pursue a post-secondary education after high school. Results also indicate that most of the encouragement that takes places between foster parents and foster youth takes the form of discussions around the topic of post-secondary education and that only about half of the participants reported that the AB 12 legislation had any effect on the amount of encouragement they provided to their foster youth.