Children Entering Out-of-home Care in South Australia: Baseline Analyses for a 3-year Longitudinal Study

Delfabbro, Paul; Barber, James G.; Cooper, Lesley

doi:10.1016/s0190-7409(02)00252-9

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“…However, it is possible to use the child's age as a proxy for the reason for placement. Delfabbro et al (2002) argue that children taken into out-of-home care fall into two distinct groups-young children whose parents have problems, and adolescents who themselves have problems, and a study of 235 children taken into care in South Australia found evidence of two such distinct clusters. This suggests that studies that do not include the primary reason for placement as an independent variable should analyse children and adolescents separately.…”

Section: Reason For Placementmentioning

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Challenges in Identifying Factors Which Determine the Placement of Children in Care? An International Review

Bhatti‐Sinclair

Sutcliffe

2012

Child Adolesc Soc Work J

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Placing a child in out-of-home care is one of the most important decisions made by professionals in the child care system, with substantial social, psychological, educational, medical and economic consequences. This paper considers the challenges and difficulties of building statistical models of this decision by reviewing the available international evidence. Despite the large number of empirical investigations over a 50 year period, a consensus on the variables associated with this decision is hard to identify. In addition, the individual models have low explanatory and predictive power and should not be relied on to make placement decisions. A number of reasons for this poor performance are offered, and some ways forwards suggested. This paper also aims to facilitate the emergence of a coherent and integrated international literature from the disconnected and fragmented empirical studies. Rather than one placement problem, there are many slightly different problems, and therefore it is expected that a number of related subliteratures will emerge, each concentrating on a particular definition of the placement problem.

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Section: Reason For Placementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenges in Identifying Factors Which Determine the Placement of Children in Care? An International Review

Bhatti‐Sinclair

Sutcliffe

2012

Child Adolesc Soc Work J

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“…Illustrating this, Cashmore and Paxman (2006) found that among Australian young adults from care, those with fewer placements had a greater sense of emotional security, more social support during young adulthood, and were overall faring better than those with more placements. Furthermore, although several studies have not been able to tease out whether placement instability drives problem behaviors or problem behaviors drives instability (Barber and Delfabbro 2003;Delfabbro et al 2002;Dore and Eisner 1993;Newton et al 2000), recent research has found that problem behaviors can be the outcome rather than the antecedent of movement (Rubin et al 2007).…”

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Placement Instability and Risky Behaviors of Youth Aging Out of Foster Care

Stott

2011

Child Adolesc Soc Work J

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Youth who age out of foster care are at risk of poor outcomes and risky behaviors in young adulthood. Yet, little is known about what child welfare workers can do to decrease these risks. The effect of foster care placement instability on substance use and risky sexual behaviors is examined using data from 114 young adults who aged out of care. When controlling for variables commonly associated with these behaviors, a history of foster care placement instability increased the young adults' likelihood to use substances. Child welfare practitioners could potentially reduce the vulnerability of this population by providing them greater stability during adolescence.Keywords Foster care youth Á Aging out Á Placement stability Á Substance use Á Risky sexual behaviors Á Foster care Á Young adult outcomes Youth who age out of foster care are at an elevated risk of negative outcomes in young adulthood. Risky sexual behaviors and substance use are among the risk behaviors to which this population is susceptible and engagement in these risk behaviors can create pathways to further vulnerabilities. While there is a collection of research regarding these risk behaviors among adolescents and young adults in the general population, there is little evidenced-based knowledge as to the unique factors that increase foster care youths' susceptibility to these behaviors in their transition to young adulthood. This study examines the role of placement instability while in foster care as one factor that could contribute to young adult risky behaviors.

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“…Children in the US have on average three different foster care placements, but it is not uncommon to hear of children who have been in 20 or 30 different homes (Childrens Rights, 2015). In a study profiling children in out-of-home care in South Australia, Delfabbro, Barber, and Cooper (2002) found that 20% of the sample had between three and five placements, 18% had between six and nine placements, and 24% -almost a quarter of all children -had experienced 10 or more previous placements during their time in care. Many of these children have restricted contact with their biological parents and extended family/whanau or no contact at all.…”

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The Trauma Healing Story. Healing Chronically Traumatised Children Through Their Families/Whanau

Struik

2017

ANZ J of Family Therapy

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Unprocessed trauma can have a devastating impact on all areas of development (Van der Kolk et al., 2009). Chronically traumatised children can be difficult to engage in trauma-focused treatment, especially when they are removed from their families by child protection services feeling blamed and disconnected. They display challenging behaviour, move from foster family to foster family, abscond, engage in criminal activities, use drugs and do not attend school. Their parents are often responsible for the abuse and families/whanau suffer from the consequences of intergenerational trauma. Instead of distancing the child from these 'dysfunctional families, ' the trauma healing story intervention views intensive collaboration with the child's parents and family as the key to engaging these children. The child's life story is described and illustrated with simple drawings in which the parents acknowledge the child's innocence and explain their intentions. Children can start to understand they were not responsible for the abuse and feel their parents' permission to talk about their traumatic memories. Creating a mutual narrative of what happened reconnects parents and children, and parents can encourage their children to participate in consecutive trauma-focused therapy. The process of constructing this story with the parents provides them with an opportunity to heal from intergenerational trauma as well and break the cycle of intergenerational abuse. This article describes the Trauma Healing Story intervention, illustrated with case examples. The Trauma Healing Story intervention is part of the Sleeping Dogs method, developed for resistant chronically traumatised children with promising results. Clinical experience has also demonstrated that the structured format of the Trauma Healing Story intervention accommodates a Fly-In-Fly-Out delivery model of specialised trauma-focused treatment in remote areas in Australia and New Zealand.

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Children Entering Out-of-home Care in South Australia: Baseline Analyses for a 3-year Longitudinal Study

Cited by 46 publications

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Challenges in Identifying Factors Which Determine the Placement of Children in Care? An International Review

Challenges in Identifying Factors Which Determine the Placement of Children in Care? An International Review

Placement Instability and Risky Behaviors of Youth Aging Out of Foster Care

The Trauma Healing Story. Healing Chronically Traumatised Children Through Their Families/Whanau

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