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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Foster families"”.
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Foster families : placement outcomes and psychlogical interventions
Foster care is a complex setting to provide therapeutic interventions due to the high rates of difficulty, poor outcomes and high numbers of professionals and carers involved. This systematic review aims to examine interventions that have been empirically assessed in foster care from a UK …
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Application of developmental strategies in upgrading foster families: Ulundi region
… of a developmental model in working with foster families; • address any challenges experienced by service providers and seek to get their opinions of what could be regarded as the best practice model in handling foster families.
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Attachment phenomena in foster families: Exploring contributions from foster parents' early attachment experiences
… study was to discover the meanings of foster parents' early childhood attachment experiences with their parents and the influence of those meanings on foster parent's interactions with children in their care. Three research questions were the focus of this qualitative study: (a) How do …
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Bonding and Psychosocial Adjustment of Youth in Foster Care
<p>Foster families face complex issues that include a history of maltreatment, family disruption, placement instability, behavioral problems, and other adjustment related concerns. Adjusting to these issues presents unique challenges to foster youths and their families. Using family systems theory …
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Comparing kin and non-kin foster parents' emotional investment in their young children
… of this epidemic, over 500,000 children are in foster care with an estimated additional 300,000 in voluntary kin placements. Because of a shortage of foster families and resources, Child Protective Services (CPS) agencies routinely seek and give priority to family members to serve as foster …
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The Psychosocial Well-Being of Orphans in the Context of HIV/AIDS in Tanzania: - A Case of 13 to 15-Years-Old Orphans in Kihologota Ward, Iringa Rural District, Tanzania
… agencies to establish formal structures where foster families can be trained as to how to manage the changes and challenges that confront the orphans while parent with HIV/AIDS has to disclose their status to their children, government has to formulate a formal psychosocial support programme …
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Experiences of the foster care process in the Republic of Ireland: retrospective accounts from biological children of foster carers
… the experiences of the biological children of foster carers. In particular it explores their experiences in relation to inclusion, consultation and decision-making. The study also examines the support and training needs of birth children in foster families. Using a qualitative methodology …
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Poverty and child well-being in foster care: Exploring family stress and adolescent behavior in Washington State
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 …
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Defining Success: The Perspective of Emerging Adults with Foster Care Experience
<p>Youth with experience in the foster system are often more susceptible to negative outcomes in adulthood due to their high levels of cumulative risk. The present study sought out to re-define the concept of “success” from the perspective of emerging adults with experience in the foster care …
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All in the family home: The biological children of parents who foster
Foster families are intended to provide children at risk with a secure environment. But how secure is this environment for the biological children of the foster family? While foster parents may feel drained by the needs of the foster children in their homes, the biological children may feel …
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Security and permanence in longterm foster care: family relationships and professional systems
… linked research studies concerned with long-term foster care, and their associated publications. There is a three-part commentary on the research and publications. Part 1 of the commentary reviews the literature relevant to the research and publications. Firstly, the policy background to the …
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Fostering Healthy Lifestyles: Assessing the Need and Potential Intervention Strategies for Foster Children
… 423,773 children in the United States are in foster care (US Department of Health and Human Services, 2011). While research has documented that childhood obesity is high in foster children, the relationship between nutrition, physical activity, weight status of foster children and the foster …
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Evaluating Los Angeles Homelessness Policy Using System Dynamics Modeling
… the number of people discharged from jails and foster families. (2) Continue to employ the PSH approach as its primary means of combating homelessness. (3) Help recipients of long-term support become self-sufficient in order to reduce the cumulative financial burden created by the operation of …
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Self-images of selected groups of adopted and non-adopted adolescents
… particularly as they apply to adoptive and foster families. The present research tied together family adaptability, cohesion, and communication from the Circumplex Model with self-image and analyzed the effect these aspects of family functioning had on a subjective measure of self-image as …
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Manajemen konflik pasangan perkawinan beda organisasi keagamaan dan implikasinya terhadap keluarga sakinah: Studi pasangan perkawinan warga NU-Muhammadiyah di Kota Batu
… couple different religious organizations in fostering family. This research is qualitative research using a phenomenological approach. The researchers used indepth interview method and observations in data collection. Informants chosen by purposive and snowball sampling. Data obtained is …
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Pembinaan keluarga sakinah dikalangan ikhwan Tarekat Syadziliyah Desa Bulurejo Kecamatan Diwek Kabupaten Jombang
… congregation which is could make these families better than ever. As for the understanding of family management, it is happen to be a dream for the fellows of the congregation so that many of them who enter into the congregation with the aim to improve, learn, establish and foster …
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Retaining Foster Parents in San Bernardino County: Identifying and Accessing Resources and Support Services Since California’s Continuum of Care Reform
<p>Foster care is a vast social justice issue that impacts nearly every local community. Yet, it receives relatively little attention due, in part, to the low social constructs of many of the most affected groups (Schneider and Ingram 1997). Thus, it should come as no surprise that foster care and …