Download or read book Examining the relationship between parenting style the home environment and placement stability for children in foster care written by Anne-Marie Conn and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Relative Stability Examining the Role of Placement with Relatives and Race ethnicity in Predicting Foster Care Placement Stability written by Jeeyeon Hong and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarship on child welfare has found placement instability to be a major risk for foster youths’ later development and well-being. However, there have been mixed findings regarding the effect of placement type (relative or non-relative foster homes) on placement instability. Further, little is understood about how the child’s race/ethnicity shapes this relationship. To fill this knowledge gap, the present study seeks to answer the following research questions: (1) How does placement stability rate differ between children in relative care versus non-relative care? (2) How does placement stability rate differ across foster children’s race/ethnicity? (3) How does the placement type interact with the relationship between child’s race/ethnicity and stability rate? This study used nationally representative data from the 2018 Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS). T-test and logistic regression results confirm that both placement type and child’s race/ethnicity are significant predictors of placement instability. Furthermore, significant interaction effects between the child’s race/ethnicity and placement type were found. These findings suggest that stability rate significantly differs by child’s different racial/ethnic group membership as well as the type of placement setting. We also found that placement with relatives is a significant moderator in the relationship between child’s race/ethnicity and placement stability. Future research should further examine the relationship between child’s race/ethnicity, placement with relatives, and placement stability to inform culturally relevant child welfare practices.
Download or read book Practical Tools for Foster Parents written by Lana Temple Plotz M.S. and published by Boys Town Press. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New or experienced foster parents as well as grandparents and other relatives caring for a child forced from home by a crisis will find help and hope in Practical Tools for Foster Parents.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. In this book, Boys Town® offers these committed foster parents the professional tools they need, not only to 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. Inside, 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 your foster child, you, and your family.•Respecting your 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 you stay calm.•Teaching your 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.
Download or read book The Role of Family Environment Parental Stress and Parenting Styles on Children in Foster Care written by Jayde Foerstel (Graduate student) and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine how demographics, resource family environment, the resource mothers’ stress, and resource mothers’ parenting styles impacted the internalizing, attention-seeking, and externalizing behaviors of children in foster care. The sample of 34 resource mothers completed a cross-sectional online survey. This quantitative study revealed that children in foster care displayed increased attention-seeking behaviors and externalizing behaviors when the resource mothers were disabled, retired, or unemployed. Resource mothers who were married experienced fewer attention-seeking behaviors from their children in foster care. The study found male children in foster care exhibited more externalizing behaviors than females. Age was positively correlated with externalizing behaviors of children in foster care. Furthermore, an authoritarian parenting style was positively correlated with externalizing behaviors of children in foster care.
Download or read book Exploring Stability and Change Processes in Foster Care written by Harry A. Ford and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Characteristics of Foster Families and Children Impacting Placement Stability written by Marissa O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many foster children experience numerous placements while in out-of-home care; some up to fifteen in an 18 month period (Newton, Litrownik, & Landsverk, 2000). Placement stability is important for children to find permanent families, and for social, emotional and educational development of children. This study used the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-being (NSCAW) data set to examine foster child and caregiver characteristics, and the caregiver-child relationship as a predictor of placement stability in the long term foster care general sample. Logistic regression was performed with the Complex Samples add-on to appropriately weight the NSCAW sampling. Children who were placed in foster homes or kinship homes and who had not been returned home at the Wave 3 interview were included in the study. The sample consisting of 562 children was divided into three groups based on age: Early Group 1, childhood ages 1to 5, group 1;Group 2, Middle childhood ages 6 to 10, group 2; Group 3, Adolescence ages 11 to 18, group 3. Results are consistent with previous studies in that children in early childhood and middle childhood who were placed in foster homes were 83% and 87% less likely to achieve placement stability than children in kinship homes, respectively. In early childhood, each additional household member reduced the odds of achieving placement stability by 35%. The caregiver-child relationship did not predict placement stability.
Download or read book Exploring the Relationship Between Child Abuse and Delinquency written by Robert J. Hunner and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1981 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alternatives in Foster Care written by Linda L. Remy and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foster Parents Trauma Knowledge and Understanding of Emotions as Correlates of Placement Stability written by Katherine Ellane Dilks and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary objective of the current study was to investigate parental trauma knowledge, empathic response style, and emotional intelligence as correlates of placement stability in foster homes. The study was a retrospective survey study. Foster parents completed a series of surveys, including demographic questions, self-report of understanding of emotions/emotional intelligence, empathic response patterns, and trauma knowledge. Foster parents also reported on child demographics, length of stay for each child placed in their care, and children's externalizing behaviors. Higher levels of foster parent emotional intelligence (EI) trended toward a significant relationship to higher rates of child placement stability. In the subset of parents who had ever requested any removals, foster parental empathic perspective taking correlated with higher rates of child placement stability as did parental trauma knowledge. Foster parent EI significantly moderated the relationship between child externalizing behavior and placement stability that placement stability was highest when parental EI was high and child externalizing behavior was low, while all other combinations of parent EI and child externalizing behavior levels showed higher rates of child removal requests. Results contribute to knowledge of parent/family characteristics that may be important correlates of placement stability in foster care and suggest that parental empathic perspective taking, emotional intelligence/understanding of emotions and trauma knowledge may be important protective factors for the placement stability of children in foster care. While parental strengths like emotional intelligence may be protective against placement disruption when children have relatively low levels of externalizing behavior, future studies should attempt to identify parental resources and contextual factors that may be protective when children have higher levels of externalizing behavior, a common risk factor for placement disruption.
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 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 Parents of Children in Placement written by Paula A. Sinanoglu and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foster Parenting written by United States. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Relationship Between Foster Parents and Own Parents in Child Placement An Analytical Study Based on the Recorded Verbalizations of Own Parents and Foster Parents in Regard to Each Other in Twenty five Cases Carried in the Westchester County Department of Family and Child Welfare Foster Home Division written by Elinor McLaughlin and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 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.
