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Foster Parent College: Interactive Multimedia Training for Foster Parents
Social Work Research, 2005Children are entering the child care system with increasingly serious physical, behavioral, and emotional problems (Barth, Freundlich, & Brodzinsky, 2000; Crase et al., 2000; Fees et al., 1998; Zukoski, 1999). Foster parents, with high hopes and little or no specialized training, are unexpectedly confronted by children who explode with anger, set fires,
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Foster parenting together: Assessing foster parent applicant couples
Children and Youth Services Review, 2014Abstract This study examined family and marital context, parenting knowledge and attitudes, and mental/emotional health in a sample of 99 heterosexual foster parent applicant couples to determine whether there were distinct sub-groups in the sample with regard to marital/family context, psychological symptoms, and parenting attitudes and knowledge ...
Terri Combs-Orme, John G. Orme
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Children and Youth Services Review, 2020
Abstract In Flanders, family foster care is increasingly the option of choice when out-of-home care is needed. However, foster care is a complex and challenging intervention and meeting all expectations by foster parents is frequently hampered by the severity of the mental health problems of foster children and conflicts with birth parents. Moreover,
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Abstract In Flanders, family foster care is increasingly the option of choice when out-of-home care is needed. However, foster care is a complex and challenging intervention and meeting all expectations by foster parents is frequently hampered by the severity of the mental health problems of foster children and conflicts with birth parents. Moreover,
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Journal of Family Social Work, 2008
ABSTRACT Foster parents play a pivotal role in the child welfare system. A study that employed focus groups with foster parents was conducted at a private foster care agency with the initial purpose of understanding the characteristics of foster children that foster parents both preferred and not preferred.
Mitchell Rosenwald, Laura Bronstein
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ABSTRACT Foster parents play a pivotal role in the child welfare system. A study that employed focus groups with foster parents was conducted at a private foster care agency with the initial purpose of understanding the characteristics of foster children that foster parents both preferred and not preferred.
Mitchell Rosenwald, Laura Bronstein
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Foster Parents' Reasons for Fostering and Foster Family Utilization
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 2006Better utilization of foster families might be linked to parents' reasons for fostering. This study used data from the National Survey of Current and Former Foster Parents to examine relationships between reasons for fostering and types of services and length of service foster parents provide. Top reasons for fostering were child-centered.
Rhodes, Kathryn +3 more
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Children and Youth Services Review, 1998
Abstract The purpose of this study was to examine attitudes and motivations of adoptive and nonadoptive foster parent trainees toward parenting and foster parenting. Subjects were 44 adoptive female participants and 149 nonadoptive female trainees. Multivariate Analysis of Covariance revealed significant differences between adoptive and nonadoptive ...
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Abstract The purpose of this study was to examine attitudes and motivations of adoptive and nonadoptive foster parent trainees toward parenting and foster parenting. Subjects were 44 adoptive female participants and 149 nonadoptive female trainees. Multivariate Analysis of Covariance revealed significant differences between adoptive and nonadoptive ...
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Predictors of foster parents’ satisfaction and intent to continue to foster
Child Abuse & Neglect, 1999The United States General Accounting Office (United States General Accounting Office [USGAO], 1989) report on out-of-home care affirmed that the foster care system is in crisis. To shed light on some factors that influence retention, the study reported here asked "What factors influence the satisfaction of foster parents?" and "What factors influence ...
R, Denby, N, Rindfleisch, G, Bean
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ELDERLY FOSTER PARENTS AND PARENTAL SCHOOL INVOLVEMENT
ICERI Proceedings, 2019Foster children often live in complicated relationships and belong to two families, a biological and a foster family. A biological family works poorly or does not function or works poorly at all, on the other side, a foster family faces a difficult task to create a loving, safe, non-evaluative environment for children where all needs will be saturated ...
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A model for successful foster child–foster parent relationships
Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 2002The purpose of this study was to explore successful relationships between foster children and foster parents.Dyads of exemplary foster parents and foster children, identified by foster care experts, were interviewed to uncover the meaning of human bonding and attachment between the foster child and foster parent.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the attitudes and motivations of adoptive and nonadoptive foster parent trainees toward parenting and foster parenting. Data collected on survey questionnaires included sociodemographic characteristics, attitudes toward parenting, attitudes toward foster parenting, and motivations for entering the foster care ...
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