Caregiver commitment to foster children: The role of child behavior

Lindhiem, Oliver; Dozier, Mary

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2006.12.003

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“…The strongest predictor of placement disruptions is externalizing behaviors by foster children that exceed their foster parents' capacity to manage them (Barber, Delfabbro, & Cooper, 2001;Leathers, 2006;Lindhiem & Dozier, 2007;Newton, Litrownik, & Landsverk, 2000;Oosterman, Schuengel, Slot, Bullens, & Doreleijers, 2007). Results have been mixed in studies on the impact of the most widely used foster parent training programs, such as MAPP and PRIDE, in training foster parents with strategies and skills in managing disruptive and confrontational behaviors (Christenson & McMurtry, 2007;Puddy & Jackson, 2003).…”

Section: Unsuccessful Transitionsmentioning

confidence: 95%

Functional Adaptation to Foster Care: Foster Care Alumni Speak Out

Affronti¹,

Rittner

Jones

2015

Journal of Public Child Welfare

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For this qualitative study, 18 foster care alumni, ranging in age from 18 to 25 years, described good foster parents as helping them functionally adapt to foster care. Good foster parents never referred to them as a "foster" child, balanced consistency with individualized application of rules, used terms such as "our family" or "our home," and included them in extended family gatherings and events. They were emotionally available without being intrusive, especially about stressful events in their lives. They facilitated ongoing contact with people from the child's past without being judgmental. Good foster parents also used their own resources, tried to accommodate personal tastes, and supported extracurricular activities.KEYWORDS aging out of foster care, foster care, family engagement, policy issuesThe number of children in foster care has been declining for much of the past decade-with approximately 397,000 children in care in 2012 (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2013). Data from state child welfare systems in 2012 indicate that most children exit foster care to permanent placement through reunification with birth families or by being

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Section: Unsuccessful Transitionsmentioning

confidence: 95%

Functional Adaptation to Foster Care: Foster Care Alumni Speak Out

Affronti¹,

Rittner

Jones

2015

Journal of Public Child Welfare

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“…Commitment and problem behaviors are not only inversely related contemporaneously, but also predict one another at subsequent time-points (Lindhiem & Dozier, 2007). More specifically, greater commitment at time 1 predicts fewer problem behaviors at time 2, controlling for problem behaviors at time 1; more problem behaviors at time 1 predicts less commitment at time 2, controlling for commitment at time 1.…”

Section: Commitmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We hypothesized that caregivers in foster parent settings would display higher amounts of commitment than caregivers in the two residential group home settings. Given that previous studies found problem behaviors differentially related to both care-type (Heflinger et al, 2000; Ryan et al, 2008) and caregiver commitment (Lindhiem & Dozier, 2007), we also accounted for differences in problem behaviors between youth in foster and group care. Given the known associations between number of children cared for and commitment (Dozier and Lindhiem, 2006), we also account for differences in the number of children caregivers have cared for between youth in foster and group care.…”

Section: Commitmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“I want to be there when he graduates:” Foster parents show higher levels of commitment than group care providers

Roben

Maier

et al. 2015

Children and Youth Services Review

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Group care is a frequent placement for adolescents placed in out of home care when their birth parents’ care is deemed unsafe. In the present study, we assessed whether foster parents show greater commitment to children than group care providers. Given that group care represents a number of living arrangements, we considered both shift care (where staff work shifts and do not live with the children) and cottage care (where staff live for extended periods of time with the children in a group living context). Commitment was assessed using the This Is My Child Interview (adapted for adolescents). Thirty-one foster parents, 18 shift workers, and 28 cottage care providers were interviewed. As predicted, foster parents showed higher levels of commitment than both shift care workers and cottage care providers, and the associations held when children’s externalizing behaviors and the number of children the caregivers had cared for were controlled. The results suggest that foster care promotes greater commitment among caregivers than other out of home placements, and add to other findings that favor foster care as the out of home placement of choice for adolescents.

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“…Comparison of these available results with the United States and Mexico groups indicates that the Mexico group had equal or higher T scores for most of the scales, with few exceptions (e.g., sleep problems). When compared to children with mild/severe brain injury, 62 single-suture craniosynostosis, 63 parental history of cocaine, alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana exposure, 64 prenatal cocaine exposure, 65 maternal current and past depression, 66 and hearing impairment, 67 children in the Mexico group had significantly higher scores for most scales. A smaller number of scales were similar and non-significant when compared with the Mexico group, with a reduced number of higher scales and significant differences in the same group.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%