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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Kinship care"”.
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Kinship Care: an Afrocentric perspective
… experiences and meanings that are attributed to kinship care by caregivers, young people of African descent, and social workers. It examined the meanings each group attached to kinship care and the risk and resilience they saw within it. The research was framed within the culturally distinctive …
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Exploring attachment patterns and resilience levels of individuals who emancipated from institutional based care, kinship care, and non-kinship care
… individuals who have emancipated from the foster care system and determine if these individuals have adapted to a pattern of secure or insecure attachment. It was determined if the secure or insecure attachment pattern showed to be most resilient among the population being studied. A solicited …
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"That's What Families Do": Rewards and Challenges of Informal Kinship Care
<p>Informal kinship caregivers take on the responsibility of raising a relative's children in situations where those children cannot remain with their parents and are not in the custody of child welfare. The phenomenon is increasing; however it is difficult to obtain information from these families …
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Understanding kinship care of children in Africa: a family environment or an alternative care option?
… and vulnerable children are traditionally cared for by their relatives or close family friends; this is an abiding practice even in contemporary times. This was historically considered to be a moral obligation binding on different relatives in different ways or at differing levels. In the …
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The relationship between caregiving stress and child well-being among informal and formal kinship care families
… study is to examine the relationship between caregiving stress and child well-being (i.e., child health and emotional/behavioral problems) among informal and formal kinship care families. This study also examines the role of kinship caregivers’ social engagement (i.e., weekly participation in …
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The care of kin: a case study approach to kinship care in the south of England and Zululand, South Africa.
This thesis focuses on kinship care specifically for children and young people requiring this provision away from their biological parent and for whom Children’s Social Services, United Kingdom and Child Welfare Agencies, South Africa, have a statutory responsibility (UK CA, 1989; SA CA, 2005). The …
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Decolonizing Home Assessment Practice at the Kitchen Table: A Thematic Analysis Identifying the Crucial Elements in the Assessment of Kinship Caregivers
Literature suggests that children placed in kinship care achieve positive outcomes. Literature also suggests the experience for kinship caregivers is very different from adoption and foster care; however assessment practice and policy do not reflect these unique elements. Using thematic analysis of …
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The Well -Being and Reading Achievement of Older Youth in Out -of -Home Care
… aspiration for higher education, placement in kinship care, and participation in school activities predicted greater probability of obtaining higher level reading skills, while drug use increased the risk of achieving lower reading levels.
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Family structure, the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and child outcomes
… private insurance, affect coverage, medical care utilization and child health outcomes. I find strong and consistent evidence that the number of publicly insured children increases; however, the number of privately insured children also declines suggesting significant crowd-out. As a result, …
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Comparing kin and non-kin foster parents' emotional investment in their young children
… 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 families to …
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Older Relatives Raising Adolescents: the Relationship Between Age of Caregiver and Youth Delinquent Acts
… in youth raised by grandparents and other older caregivers as compared to delinquency in youth raised by parents. It has been posited here that youth raised by grandparents and other older caregivers are more likely to commit delinquent acts. This study uses survey responses from Wave I, The …
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Lived Experiences and Attributes of Custodial Grandparents that Influence Their Grandchild's Early Learning and Development: A Phenomenological Study
… number of children who are placed in out-of-home care, due in large part to the opioid epidemic. When children cannot live with their parents, kinship care is the preferred placement option because it helps children maintain a sense of stability, familiarity, and connection to family culture. A …
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An exploration of the nature and function of psychoanalytic parent work with adoptive parents
… who work in a specialist fostering, adoption and kinship care child and adolescent mental health service (FAKC CAMHS), in carrying out parent work with adoptive parents. Semi structured interviews were used to collect the data, which was then analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis …
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Exploring the Experiences of Vulnerable Families: A Critical Reflection on the Participatory Research Approach
… traumatic events and how services responses of ‘kinship care’ arrangements have substantial flaws. The study also generated new insight into the experiences of men as fathers and how ‘risk’ is assumed to be cross-contextual. No easy solutions are proposed, but the participatory principles …
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A qualitative study of college success for students with experience in foster care in Pennsylvania
Students who have experiences in the foster care system, group homes, or kinship care graduate college at a significantly lower rate than their peers. Most research indicates that no more than four percent of students with experience in the foster care system, who will be represented in this …
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Siblings In Foster Care
… children, whose connection to parents and adult caregivers has been disrupted, is an important area meriting study. Unfortunately, until very recently, there has been a dearth of well-designed research examining the important developmental issues involving siblings placed in out of home care. …
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Tinkering with Food and Family: Striving for Good Care in an Eating Disorder Treatment Centre in Italy
This thesis examines practices of care in an Italian public treatment centre for people diagnosed with anorexia and bulimia nervosa. Drawing on patient-focused anthropological accounts of eating disorders as ‘technologies of the self’, and on existing ethnographic works that have highlighted the …
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Resilience and spirituality among grandparents raising their grandchildren
… for raising their grandchildren. Grandparent caregivers face altered developmental paths compared to their noncaregiving peers. Past research has focused on health concerns and coping mechanisms that assist these grandparents in their parenting role, but have largely ignored or minimized the …
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Out of home placement location and juvenile delinquency: the investigation of neighborhood impact on child welfare population's juvenile justice involvement
… whether the neighborhoods associated with foster care placement affect the risk of delinquent offending for adolescents in the child welfare system. This study tests the hypothesis whether the association between neighborhood sociodemographic factors and delinquency is mediated by neighborhood …
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