Children's Emotional and Behavioural Problems and Carer-Child Relationships in Permanent Care

Alexandris, Maria M.; Hammond, Sabine; McKay, Michael

doi:10.1017/cha.2012.46

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“…It often encompasses both relational closeness and conflict between parents and their children ( Driscoll & Pianta, 2011 ). On the one hand, the quality of child-parent relationship could affect children’s mental health ( Sargent & O’Brien, 2004 ); on the other hand, children’s problems could make it difficult for parents to interact with them, which could strain their relationships ( Alexandris, Hammond, & McKay, 2013 ). The parents’ evaluation of their relationship with their children would predict their parenting stress.…”

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Parenting Stress During COVID-19 Lockdown: Correlates with Family and Child Factors

Tan

Wang

2022

Journal of Family Issues

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In response to the COVID-19, a 76-day city-wide strict lockdown was imposed in Wuhan, China. This study aimed to document the family’s psychological status during the lockdown and test the role of family functioning, children’s mental health, child-parent relationship as well as parenting time during pandemic on parenting stress. The results showed that nearly 18% of the children exhibited clinical-level mental health problems. The children’s mental health and child-parent conflict fully mediated general family functioning’s impact on parenting stress. The change in childcaring time moderated the effect of the children’s mental health problems and child-parent conflict on parenting stress. Findings indicated that, during COVID-19 lockdown, children’s mental health and child-parent conflict contributed to parenting stress. More childrearing time would reduce the impact of children’s mental health on parenting stress.

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Parenting Stress During COVID-19 Lockdown: Correlates with Family and Child Factors

Tan

Wang

2022

Journal of Family Issues

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“…These difficulties are one of the main factors that can compromise foster families' therapeutic role and impair the relationship between caregivers and foster children, sometimes leading to a breakdown of the placement (Oosterman et al, 2007). Thus, without losing sight of the multidirectional relationships that take place in any family context, the more complex needs of foster children, who also tend to be placed in foster homes at older ages, make it necessary to pay special attention to the child-to-parent effects in this protection measure (Alexandris et al, 2013;Newton et al, 2014;Vanderfaeillie et al, 2012).…”

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Quality of Interactions, Children’s Psychological Adjustment and Parental Stress in Foster Families: the Mediating Role of Parental Sense of Competence

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Foster children’s emotional and behavioral difficulties are often a challenge for foster caregivers, who may experience reduced feelings of competence in their parental role, as well as increased levels of parental stress. In turn, these difficulties can negatively affect the quality of the interactions between them. In the present work, our first objective was to analyze the quality of the interactions between 49 Spanish foster children aged 4–9 years and their main caregivers, and its relationship with some variables, which were studied as potential predictors: the caregivers’ parental stress and sense of competence, the children’s psychological adjustment difficulties, and the children and caregivers’ socio-demographic profile. We assessed caregiver-child interactions using an observational task (Co-Construction Task). The caregivers completed standardized questionnaires regarding their parental stress (Parenting Stress Index-Short Form; PSI-SF), parental sense of competence (Parenting Sense of Competence Scale; PSOC), and foster children’s psychological adjustment difficulties (Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire; SDQ). Also, we obtained their socio-demographic information through the families’ caseworkers. The second objective was to examine whether caregivers’ parental sense of competence mediated the relationship between children’s psychological adjustment difficulties and caregivers’ parental stress. Results concerning our first objective showed that caregivers’ parental stress and children’s age were significant predictors of the quality of caregiver-child interactions. As for the second objective, our mediation model indicated that parental sense of competence partially mediated the relationship between children’s psychological adjustment difficulties and caregivers’ parental stress. Lastly, we comment on some practical implications based on our results, which point to the need to include both self-report and observational measures when assessing and intervening with foster families.

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Accounting for the increase of children in care in western Australia: What can a client information system tell us?

Bilson

Cant

Harries

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Child Abuse & Neglect

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Children's Emotional and Behavioural Problems and Carer-Child Relationships in Permanent Care

Cited by 5 publications

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Parenting Stress During COVID-19 Lockdown: Correlates with Family and Child Factors

Parenting Stress During COVID-19 Lockdown: Correlates with Family and Child Factors

Quality of Interactions, Children’s Psychological Adjustment and Parental Stress in Foster Families: the Mediating Role of Parental Sense of Competence

Accounting for the increase of children in care in western Australia: What can a client information system tell us?

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