Patience with foster children as a major problem for grandparents in the role of kinship carers aged 60 + and the psychosocial determinants of this deficit. [PDF]
BMC Geriatr, 2023 Giezek M +3 more
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The Child Welfare Employees’ Constructions of Contact Visits for Parents and Children in Public Care
Social SciencesFollowing a care order, children and parents are entitled to contact with each other in accordance with the conditions established by the Child Welfare Tribunals.
Marianne Buen Sommerfeldt +1 more
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Poor Quality of Sleep in Foster Children Relates to Maltreatment and Placement Conditions
SAGE Open, 2016 This exploratory study investigated child sleep in a sample of maltreated children living in foster care and examined its associations with placement conditions and history of maltreatment.
Karine Dubois-Comtois +3 more
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Foster children in care due to parental incarceration: A national longitudinal study. [PDF]
Child Youth Serv Rev, 2023 Morrison M, Drake B.
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Psychosocial well-being of Flemish foster children residing in their foster homes during the COVID-19 lockdown. [PDF]
Child Youth Serv Rev, 2022 Verheyden C +3 more
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A Systematic Review on Foster Parents' Psychological Adjustment and Parenting Style-An Evaluation of Foster Parents and Foster Children Variables. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2021 Mancinelli E +2 more
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AN ANALYSIS OF, AND DIFFERENT APPROACH TO, CHALLENGES IN FOSTER CARE PRACTICE IN SOUTH AFRICA
Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 2013 Foster care is perceived to be the best and most widely applied form of alternative care for children besides their maternal home, because it most often occurs within the family context and is supposed to offer safety and protection to children.
Annelie Böning, Sandra Ferreira
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The main issues of supporting foster families
Известия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: Общественные наукиBackground. Every year in Russia, more and more orphans are being raised in foster families, this actualizes the need to develop and improve the system of their support in order to successfully socialize adopted children and prevent secondary orphanhood.
E.V. Martynova
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A System Stretched Beyond Its Elastic Limits: The South African Foster Care Grant System
Social InclusionFoster care placements are temporary care arrangements for children removed from their biological families due to a plethora of reasons. The social worker investigates the circumstances of the child and then compiles a report to the presiding officer of ...
Sipho Sibanda
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Interdisciplinary Journal of Rural and Community StudiesThe study investigated the experience and challenges faced by children raised by foster parents in the Kingdom of Eswatini. It employed a Participatory Action Research (PAR) design guided by a transformative paradigm, which was fitting as it necessitated
Phumuzani Mpofu +1 more
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