Download or read book Stress Well being Retention and Social Support Among Licensed Foster Parents written by Elizabeth Sharda and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foster parents are the largest group providing care for some of our most vulnerable children- those in the foster care system. In the course of caring for children who have experienced significant trauma, loss, and uncertainty, foster parents face unique stressors specific to their role. As a result, many leave fostering after only a short period. Though the need for licensed foster parents is high, relatively little is known about the factors that impact their ability to remain in their role, and even less is known about what impacts their well-being within it. The purpose of this study was to use a conceptual model grounded in social support theory to examine the impact that stress and support have on foster parent retention and well-being. Specifically, I investigated the relationships between stressors of fostering and parenting stress, and between parenting stress and two outcome variables: well-being and the intent to continue fostering. Additionally, I examined social support as a potential moderator, or buffer, of each of these relationships. The study utilized a cross-sectional, non-experimental design and web-based survey methodology with a sample of foster parents from one Michigan county (N = 139). In addition to descriptive and bivariate analysis, multiple linear regression and binary logistic regression were used to analyze the identified research questions. Results indicated that there was no relationship between the total number of stressors reported by foster parents and their levels of parenting stress. However, parenting stress was significantly higher among foster parents who reported certain stressors: foster child behavior problems, difficulty obtaining services, and disagreement with a licensing rule or policy. A significant, negative relationship was found between parenting stress and well-being. Additionally, social support did moderate this relationship, suggesting that social support serves as a protective factor for foster parents experiencing parenting stress. No significant relationship was found between parenting stress and the intent to still be fostering in 18 months. However, parenting stress was a significant predictor of past thoughts about giving up fostering. This study contributes to existing literature by adding to the small (but growing) body of quantitative studies conducted with U.S. foster parent populations. Further, the study uses a conceptual framework grounded in social support theory to increase understanding related to the impact of stress and support on foster parent well-being and retention. Among other notable findings, it offers the first known evidence that social support serves in a buffering role for foster parents, protecting their well-being even in the presence of high parenting stress. This has several important implications for this population and the professionals and systems they encounter, including improved foster parent training, assessment, and mentoring. Future studies should be conducted with larger and more representative samples of foster parents, particularly in terms of gender and race. In addition, research dedicated to developing a multidimensional measure of social support specific to foster parents would be particularly valuable.

Download or read book Social Support as a Moderator to Foster Care Displacement and Foster Parent Outcomes written by Latasha Denise Watts and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recruitment and retention of licensed foster parents in the United States is a priority among child welfare professionals. There exist many factors impacting one’s decision to foster or discontinue fostering, resulting in the child welfare system’s constant struggle to recruit and retain foster parents and maintain placement stability for foster youth. Therefore, foster parent turnover and placement displacements negatively affect the wellbeing of foster youth, foster parent success outcomes, and the child welfare system. This quantitative study employed a nonexperimental correlational design using multiple regression to determine the type and quantity of foster care support services that moderates the relationship between foster care displacements, foster carer satisfaction and intent to continue fostering among 102 nonrelative licensed foster carers licensed within five foster care agencies in North Carolina. This study utilized online survey instruments, the Treatment Foster Parent Satisfaction Survey (TFP-SS), the Family Support Scale (FSS), and the Turnover Intention Questionnaire (TIQ) to examine the perceptions of foster carer support services. SPSS was employed to aid in the analysis of the findings. Results were analyzed using multiple regression to determine the relationship between the variables. Results revealed a significant relationship between foster care support services, foster carer satisfaction, intent to continue fostering, and foster care displacements. The findings of the relationship between foster care support services and foster parent success outcomes could promote practice and policy change within the child welfare system to better support 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 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 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 Parental Stress and Early Child Development written by Kirby Deater-Deckard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-14 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the complex impact of parenting stress and the effects of its transmission on young children’s development and well-being (e.g., emotion self-regulation; executive functioning; maltreatment; future parenting practices). It analyzes current findings on acute and chronic psychological and socioeconomic stressors affecting parents, including those associated with poverty and cultural disparities, pregnancy and motherhood, and caring for children with developmental disabilities. Contributors explore how parental stress affects cognitive, affective, behavioral, and neurological development in children while pinpointing core adaptation, resilience, and coping skills parents need to reduce abusive and other negative behaviors and promote optimal outcomes in their children. These nuanced bidirectional perspectives on parent/child dynamics aim to inform clinical strategies and future research targeting parental stress and its cyclical impact on subsequent generations. Included in the coverage: Parental stress and child temperament. How social structure and culture shape parental strain and the well-being of parents and children. The stress of parenting children with developmental disabilities. Consequences and mechanisms of child maltreatment and the implications for parenting. How being mothered affects the development of mothering. Prenatal maternal stress and psychobiological development during childhood. Parenting Stress and Early Child Development is an essential resource for researchers, clinicians and related professionals, and graduate students in infancy and early childhood development, developmental psychology, pediatrics, family studies, and developmental neuroscience.

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 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 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 Parent Management Training written by Alan E. Kazdin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among evidence-based therapies for children and adolescents with oppositional, aggressive, and antisocial behavior, parent management training (PMT) is without peer; no other treatment for children has been as thoroughly investigated and as widely applied. Here, Alan E. Kazdin brings together the conceptual and empirical bases underlying PMT with discussions of background, principles, and concepts, supplemented with concrete examples of the ways therapists should interact with parents and children. The second half of the book is a PMT treatment manual. The manual details the particulars of the therapy: what is done to and by whom, what the therapist should say, and what to expect at each stage of treatment. It also contains handouts, charts, and aides for parents. A companion website (www.oup.com/us/pmt) provides additional resources for clinicians.

Download or read book The Human Service Workers Perspective on the Barriers and Successes in Foster Parents Retention written by Yamila Lezcano and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The need for consistent and efficient placements for children entering the Foster Care System is critical, as the turnover rates among foster families continue to rise. Foster parents provide a temporary stable home environment to children and youth while enduring a traumatic period in their lives. The marked decrease in foster homes leave children exposed to placements considered less beneficial to their overall wellbeing. The purpose of this study was to illuminate the lived experiences of Human Service Workers regarding the barriers and successes in foster parents’ retention. This qualitative method was transcendental-phenomenology. Individual semi-structured interviews were conducted to a group of twelve Human Service Professionals with over three years of experience working with foster parents in various roles. A thematic analysis of individual interviews was completed and validated by two participants. In the results of this study, ten themes contributed to both barriers and success in foster parents’ retention. The most salient themes were the importance of appropriate response and support to foster parents’ needs. When foster parents perceived a low level of response and support from Human Service Workers and their agency, they struggled more in their ability to sustain their role, and would potentially leave the system; conversely high levels of support translated to longevity in foster parents’ services. Other themes included the need for foster parents to feel a valuable member of the team; receiving better trainings in understanding and responding to trauma; feelings of burnout, clear roles, and boundaries among systems; inappropriate matching between foster parents and children during placement. Additional themes surfaced in relation to foster parents’ personal characteristics that contributed to the success in their role, for example: altruistic behavior, resilience, and flexibility. The findings suggest a need for a systematic approach to improve foster parents’ retention rates. The loss in homeostasis by any part of the system leads to stress in the entire system; the shortage in foster parents leads to stress in case managers’ attempts to find a placement; this will translate to overcrowding available foster homes and increased burnout in foster parents.

Download or read book Poverty and Child Well being in Foster Care written by William Benjamin Packard and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty defines the lives of most families in the child welfare system. Children are more likely to be removed from poorer families. In the Family Stress Model, economic stress influences child well-being in biological families, and is hypothesized to be associated with foster youth well-being in foster families. Descriptive statistics from a sample of 64 caregiver and adolescent dyads are presented. 30% of families live below the federal poverty guideline (FPG). 84% of families have insufficient income. While no significant differences were observed in child wellbeing among families by income, a trend level difference was observed between foster youth feeling alienated from their caregiver in families below FPG and families with sufficient income. Statistical power was limited, and replication is needed. Policy recommendations include increasing financial resources to families to enhance child well-being as a way to achieve the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare's 12 Grand Challenges.

Download or read book Foster Parent Retention written by Julie Kay Larson Keller and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 190 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 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 Parent Child Interaction Therapy written by Toni L. Hembree-Kigin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical guide offers mental health professionals a detailed, step-by-step description on how to conduct Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) - the empirically validated training program for parents with children who have disruptive behavior problems. It includes several illustrative examples and vignettes as well as an appendix with assessment instruments to help parents to conduct PCIT.

Download or read book Breakthroughs in Family Therapy with Drug Abusing and Problem Youth written by José Szapocznik and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews structural family treatment of behavior-problem youths and provides a detailed introduction to recent advances in the understanding and handling of these individuals. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.