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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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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,
C. Pacifici +4 more
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Parental acceptance and foster parents
Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 1981Abstract Parental acceptance is generally regarded as an important parental attribute, yet has been investigated only minimally. In the studies reported here, the Porter Parental Acceptance Scale was used to study foster parents’ acceptance of children as it relates to demographic factors, aspects of their personal history, and their history as foster ...
Louise F. Guerney, Miriam Aberg Gavigan
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Parenting Behaviors and Parental Stress Among Foster Parents
The Family Journal, 2022While associations between child behavior, parenting behaviors, and foster parent stress have been established, a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between parenting behaviors and parental stress in foster parents is needed. This study included a convenience sample of 65 licensed foster caregivers from across the United States to address ...
Rocio Lopez +3 more
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Foster parent perceptions of competency: Implications for foster parent training
Children and Youth Services Review, 2011Abstract Studies have examined factors that impact successful placements in foster care. Absent from this body of research, however, are factors that promote foster parent competence. The purpose of this study was to assess perceived competency of foster parents, subsequent to pre-service training, in tasks of foster parenting across 12 domains of ...
Morgan E. Cooley, Raymond E. Petren
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Measuring Foster Parent Potential: Casey Foster Parent Inventory-Applicant Version
Research on Social Work Practice, 2007Objective: The Casey Foster Applicant Inventory-Applicant Version (CFAI-A) is a new standardized self-report measure designed to assess the potential to foster parent successfully. The CFAI-A is described, and results concerning its psychometric properties are presented.
Orme, John G. +4 more
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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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Foster parents' coping style and attitudes toward parenting
Children and Youth Services Review, 2015Abstract Foster parents have the greatest influence on the well-being of a foster child. A good selection procedure is needed to recruit capable and high quality foster families, and to reduce the risk of breakdown. Therefore we examined the coping style of foster parents and their attitudes toward parenting.
De Maeyer, Skrallan +4 more
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Foster parents teaching foster parents: Communication and conflict resolution skills training
Journal of Community Psychology, 1982The purpose of the present study was to examine a model of foster parent training in which specific therapeutic parenting skills (communication and conflict resolution) were taught to foster parents by other previously trained foster parents. A comparison was made of how well these skills were learned under this condition as compared to when ...
Eloise J. Cobb +2 more
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2020
In countries such as Australia, the UK, and the USA, growing numbers of LGBTQ people are becoming foster parents. This chapter summarizes what is known from the research evidence, primarily focusing on lesbian and gay foster parents given the dearth of research on bisexual, transgender, and queer foster parents.
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In countries such as Australia, the UK, and the USA, growing numbers of LGBTQ people are becoming foster parents. This chapter summarizes what is known from the research evidence, primarily focusing on lesbian and gay foster parents given the dearth of research on bisexual, transgender, and queer foster parents.
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