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Child & Youth Services, 2021
Foster care is a sensitive topic that requires representation of the best interests of children and families. The perspectives of foster children and foster families are under-researched and there is need for more knowledge in this area.
Helen Saarnik
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Foster care is a sensitive topic that requires representation of the best interests of children and families. The perspectives of foster children and foster families are under-researched and there is need for more knowledge in this area.
Helen Saarnik
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Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 1976
A parenting course for foster parents was described with a follow-up evaluation utilized to determine its effectiveness. The content of this broad-based course included learning theory, principles and techniques, communication skills, methods of conflict resolution, developmental considerations, and information about community services.
N W, Freeling, S, Kissel, L, Surgent
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A parenting course for foster parents was described with a follow-up evaluation utilized to determine its effectiveness. The content of this broad-based course included learning theory, principles and techniques, communication skills, methods of conflict resolution, developmental considerations, and information about community services.
N W, Freeling, S, Kissel, L, Surgent
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Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2020
Young children with a history of maltreatment or neglect in foster families often confront their caregivers with particularly challenging behaviors. This may lead to more parenting stress, an increased risk for the child in foster care to experience ...
Ann-Katrin Job +6 more
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Young children with a history of maltreatment or neglect in foster families often confront their caregivers with particularly challenging behaviors. This may lead to more parenting stress, an increased risk for the child in foster care to experience ...
Ann-Katrin Job +6 more
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Foster parenting together: Foster parent couples
Children and Youth Services Review, 2014Abstract Almost two-thirds of children in non-relative foster care live in homes headed by married couples. However, the literature includes little about either the role of foster fathers or the complexity and importance of the marital context for fostering.
John G. Orme, Terri Combs-Orme
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Sociological Ambivalence: Relationships between Birth Parents and Foster Parents
, 2020Inspired by Merton and Barber’s sociological theory on ambivalence, this article analyses ‘co-parenting’ between foster parents and birth parents as prototypes of ambivalent relationships; that is, relationships based on incompatible role requirements ...
Margaretha Järvinen +1 more
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Parental monitoring by foster parents, youth behaviours and the youth–foster parent relationship
Child & Family Social Work, 2021AbstractYouth in foster care overwhelmingly display heightened risks for both internalizing and externalizing behaviours. Few studies document how and under what conditions foster parents effectively respond to child behaviours. The overarching purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between foster parents' parental monitoring, youth ...
Morgan E. Cooley +3 more
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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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