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Kinship foster care: psychosocial profile of families and foster children

open access: yesRevista Sobre la Infancia y la Adolescencia, 2021
Extended family foster care family is the most frequent protective measure for minors in Spain. The objectives of the present study are to analyze the family profile according to different dimensions, knowing the state of psychosocial health care of ...
Elena Martínez Miguel   +2 more
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“A highly demanding measure”: practitioner contributions to improving practice and policy for foster families

open access: yesCuadernos de Trabajo Social, 2023
Foster families provide at-risk children with a family environment. In Portugal, however, there appears to be a major lack of political investment in foster care programmes, with only around 191 children currently placed with a foster family.
Elisete Simoes Diogo, Francisco Branco
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Exploring Gender Stereotypes among Prospective Foster Families

open access: yesSTEPP: Socialinė Teorija, Empirija, Politika ir Praktika, 2023
One of the acute social work issues in Ukraine is the deinstitutionalization of care for orphans and children left without parental care and the introduction of family care models.
Alla Yaroshenko, Tetyana Semigina
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Occupations related to the sphere of social services in the foster care system - barriers in their functioning

open access: yesRozprawy Społeczne, 2020
The article concerns the problems of professions related to the sphere of social services in the foster care system. The Act on family support and foster care system of June 9, 2011 introduced changes designed to improve family support in overcoming ...
Magdalena Julita Zmysłowska
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L’affidamento familiare: le strategie educative elaborate dagli affidatari

open access: yesJournal of Educational, Cultural and Psychological Studies, 2021
Foster care is a condition of welcoming children with families in serious difficulty, legally regulated, aimed at guaranteeing to minors a suitable space for growth, and to families of origin the possibility of overcoming the problems so as to consent ...
Paola Ricchiardi, Cristina Coggi
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The work of support specialists with adopted children with disabilities and their families. The problems of foster families support who have adopted children with ASD

open access: yesАутизм и нарушение развития, 2017
The desire of having a family is crucial for foster families and adopted children with disabilities. But the cases of refusing an adopted child with disabilities are not uncommon.
Okoneshnikova N.M.
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How Do People Become Foster Carers in Portugal? The Process of Building the Motivation

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2019
Act no. 142/2015 highlights the importance of children out-of-home being placed in a family context. However, foster care continues to be an almost absent component in the Portuguese childcare system.
Elisete Diogo, Francisco Branco
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Adolescents in Foster Care: Emotional Environment in Foster Families

open access: yesПсихологическая наука и образование, 2018
The article reveals the specifics of professional activities of specialists that support foster families taking care of adolescents.The outcomes of our study allow us to compare the emotional environment in foster families and families of origin (birth ...
Shulga T.I., , Antipina M.A.,
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Acogimiento familiar en familia educadora en la provincia de Alicante, España: características de los recursos disponibles

open access: yesCuadernos de Trabajo Social, 2020
Foster care is a determining resource for the child protection system. The scientific evidence shows that the psychosocial benefits of foster care for minors within the protection system are superior to those that can be provided by residential resource
Ignasi Navarro Soria   +2 more
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The study of the grounds and development of a typology of foster families raising different categories of children with special needs

open access: yesPolítica e Gestão Educacional, 2021
The article presents a theoretical analysis of scientific literature on the problems of foster families raising children with disabilities, identifies the difficulties of parents in effectively solving the health problems of a child with disabilities ...
Angelica N. Pronina
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