The internal structure of foster-parent completed SDQ for school-aged children. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Mental health problems are common in foster-children, and tools to measure the mental health of these children are needed. One candidate instrument is the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), a measure of child psychological adjustment that is
Stine Lehmann +2 more
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The “Fostering Changes” Parent Training Programme for Foster Carers: A Feasibility Study of the German Version [PDF]
ChildrenBackground: Foster children exhibit higher rates of psychiatric and physical disorders than children living with their biological families. This places a high burden on the parenting skills of foster parents and potentially increases the risk of ...
Judith Bürzle +2 more
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A family navigator model for foster parents to promote youth mental health wellness: Study development and protocol [PDF]
Contemporary Clinical Trials CommunicationsBackground: Children in foster care experience disproportionately high rates of mental illness, yet most do not receive timely or evidence-based mental health treatment.
Christina L. Boisseau +6 more
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Enhancing Foster Parent Training with Parent-Child Interaction Therapy: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment [PDF]
Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research, 2015 Joshua P Mersky +2 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]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021 The current systematic review aimed to evaluate the variables influencing foster parents’ parenting stress, distress and parenting style, thereby supporting their adjustment and well-being as well as that of foster children. A PRISMA-guided search was conducted in three databases.
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Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 2023 Decisions made by social workers play a crucial role in foster care. Despite the challenging conditions under which social workers work in South Africa, they continue to make decisions to place children in foster care.
Pathamavathy Naicker, Petro Botha
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Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens, 2021 Behaviour signals the internal states that relate to an individual’s welfare and its development is influenced by the early social environment that an animal experiences.
Peter Kidd, Paul Rose
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The wellbeing of foster children and their relationship with foster parents and biological parents: a child’s perspective [PDF]
Journal of Social Work Practice, 2015 Most Dutch foster children live permanently in foster families. It is often assumed that foster children have ambivalent loyalties and attachments to their birth parents and foster parents and are torn between the two. In this study 59 children between 10 and 18 years placed in long term foster care completed standardized questionnaires on the ...
Maaskant, A.M. +3 more
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Moral Dilemmas in Foster Care Due to Religious Differences Between Birth Parents, Foster Parents, and Foster Children [PDF]
Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 2022 AbstractMany ethnoreligious-minority foster children in several western countries, including the Netherlands, are placed and permanently live with ethnically and religiously non-matched foster families (i.e., in trans-religious foster care). We examine whether and which moral dilemmas exist around the issue of how religion should be weighted in trans ...
Diana D. van Bergen +4 more
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BMC Psychology, 2023 Background Children in foster care are psychologically vulnerable and show more social, developmental, and behavioral problems than those living with their family of origin.
Nina Thorup Dalgaard +6 more
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