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FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO FOSTER PARENT TURNOVER
<p>Foster parents play a key role in providing care to children that have been removed from their families. The purpose of this quantitative study was to identify factors that contribute to foster parent turnover. A self-administered survey included 6 questions in each section of the following …
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Foster Parent Knowledge and the Need for Information - Sharing Technology
… actors are unable to successfully perform. Foster parents, a key stakeholder in the proper care of children, report being unable to successfully perform because they are raising children with significant needs and trauma while having to locate and navigate child welfare system laws, …
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Foster parent adoption: Preparing children through the use of Life Books
The trend of foster parent adoption is increasing as more children are placed in foster care requiring a permanent family. This is an exploratory study focusing on foster children who are being adopted by their foster parents and their need for adequate preparation. In this study, a group of four …
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Factors Associated With Foster Parent Instrumental Social Support For Physical Activity
… and females. To be active, many youth rely on parents for specific instrumental social support (ISS) such as providing transportation and paying activity fees. Parental PA literacy (comprehension of PA information and guidelines) may also be associated with parents' support of children's PA. To …
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"A piece of you is gone": foster parent experiences of pre-adoptive placement disruption
… and permanency needs, waiting children and their foster parents are seldom recognized as unique cohorts. Thus, little is known about the experience of pre-adoptive placement disruption. The status of waiting children, foster care and adoption history and policy, and literature and theory relevant …
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The Association Between Foster Parent Knowledge of Child Sexual Trauma, Parental Self-Efficacy, and Retainment of Sexually Abused Foster Children
… psychological outcomes. Children involved in the foster care system are particularly likely to have experienced sexual abuse, and are also at a greater risk for subsequent pathology. While sexual trauma is relatively common in foster child populations, little is known about foster parents’ …
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Foster Parenting...Why Not?
… by Children & Family Services and placed into foster care. When the county foster homes become full, private foster family agencies are relied upon to take in the overflow. For a variety of reasons, private agencies are finding it increasingly difficult to recruit and retain sufficient numbers …
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Evaluation of Emotion Regulation and Associated Characteristics in Foster Children Using the Dyadic Parent-Child Coding System and Caregiver-Report Measures
… disruptive behavior, (b) explore which specific foster parent behaviors are most associated with child emotion regulation, and (c) explore whether internalizing or externalizing foster child behavior problems are most associated with child emotion regulation. The sample consisted of 40 foster …
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Emotional Intelligence: How it Impacts Depression Levels and Perception of Role Fulfillment Among Caregiver Foster Parents
… (El), depression, and role fulfillment among foster parents. It is believed that if a link between EI and the other variables is identified, programs can be developed to help build EI in foster parents, and thus aid them in becoming more effective caregivers. A convenience sample of foster …
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Relating children in foster care to school bullying
… the correlation, if any, that children in foster care have with bullying. The researcher gathered descriptive information by attending foster parent support group meetings in New Jersey. Resource parents reported on behalf of the foster child in their care at that time. Participants were …
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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 …
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Predictors of Placement Satisfaction for Foster Youth
<p>Youth in the foster care system are often removed from their biological families because of challenges to their safety and wellbeing and are often at risk for further placement disruption and poor socio-emotional development. Placement stability is a crucial component to establishing permanency …
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Estimating place-based protective factors for foster care placement disruption : a mixed methods study.
Persistent high rates of foster care placement disruptions present ongoing challenges for the US child welfare system, adversely affecting nearly every aspect of a child's development. With a declining number of available foster homes and the implementation of the Family First Prevention Services …
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BONDING BETWEEN FOSTER PARENTS AND FOSTER CHILDREN
… that close to 500,000 children were in the foster care system in 2009 in the United States, and the average length of care was over 26 months. The primary focus was why foster parents are unable to form a bond with the children placed in their home and the effects of not forming any …
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Foster Parents' Perceptions of Barriers to Accessing Substance Abuse Treatment for Foster Youth
<p>As Counties continue to grow and the need for foster parent’s increases, resources become scarce. In San Bernardino County, Juvenile drug court is no longer offered, which has led to fewer resources for foster parents in need of substance abuse treatment services. Without access to juvenile drug …
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Assessing the Efficacy of Pre-Service Trainings for Treatment Foster Parents
… trainings: Model Approach to Partnerships in Parenting (MAPP, n = 81) and Pressley Ridge's Treatment Foster Care pre-service training (PR-TFC, n = 71) on treatment foster parents' parenting attitudes, readiness to provide treatment foster care, and attitudes toward providing treatment foster …
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Siblings In Foster Care
… life. The meaning of sibling connections for foster 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 …
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Shortage of Foster Parents: An Exploratory Study of the Attrition of Prospective Foster Parents During the Licensing Process
<p>Foster care is an integral component to ensure children removed from their homes due to abuse and/or neglect can begin the healing process. Despite the importance of foster care, a shortage of foster homes in the United States continues to limit caseworkers’ abilities to place children in homes …
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