Developmental Outcomes of Foster Children

Goemans, Anouk; Geel, Mitch van; Beem, Merel van; Vedder, Paul

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“…The results show that inequalities, as reported from studies targeting OHC children in young adulthood (Goemans et al, 2016), are also present in midlife, thus lending support to the hypothesis of a developmental continuity of childhood disadvantage extending into middle age (Ferraro, Schafer & Wilkinson, 2016; Ferraro et al, 2009). Even after adjustments for the birth family’s social status and indications of household poverty in early childhood, cohort members with a history of OHC had elevated odds for having comparably lower education (e), comparably more social assistance in combination with comparably higher levels of unemployment (SU), and of belonging to the most disadvantaged outcome profile (eSUM).…”

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“…In Sweden, which is the focus of this study, the pronounced aim is to provide the child with better opportunities for development than in an adverse birth home. Yet, childhood experience of OHC seems to be one of the strongest markers for compromised long-term health and psychosocial development that we know of (Goemans, van Geel, van Beem, & Vedder, 2016), on par with victimization from persistent bullying in childhood (Takizawa, Maughan, & Arseneault, 2014; Viner & Taylor, 2005). …”

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Children Placed In Out-of-Home Care as Midlife Adults: Are They Still Disadvantaged or Have They Caught Up With Their Peers?

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International research has consistently reported that children placed in out-of-home care (OHC) have poor outcomes in young adulthood. Yet, little is known about their outcomes in midlife. Using prospective data from a cohort of more than 14,000 Swedes born in 1953, of which nearly 9% have been placed in OHC, this study examines whether there is developmental continuity or discontinuity of disadvantage reaching into middle age in OHC children, compared to same-aged peers. Outcome profiles, here conceptualized as combinations of adverse outcomes related to education, economic hardship, unemployment, and mental health problems, were assessed in 1992–2008 (ages 39–55). Results indicate that having had experience of OHC was associated with 2-fold elevated odds of ending up in the most disadvantaged outcome profile, controlling for observed confounding factors. These findings suggest that experience of OHC is a strong marker for disadvantaged outcomes also in midlife.

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Children Placed In Out-of-Home Care as Midlife Adults: Are They Still Disadvantaged or Have They Caught Up With Their Peers?

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“…Children in family foster care manifest high rates of clinically significant psychosocial difficulties. In contrast to children from the general population, foster children are characterized by high levels of internalizing and externalizing behaviour problems ( Carbone, Sawyer, Searle, & Robinson, 2007 ; Goemans, Van Geel, Van Beem, & Vedder, 2016 ; Pritchett et al, 2016 ). Exact numbers differ across studies, but proportions of foster children with clinically significant mental health problems have been reported to be over one-third ( Maaskant, Van Rooij, & Hermanns, 2014 ), almost half ( Burns et al, 2004 ) or even over half ( Tarren-Sweeney & Hazell, 2006 ).…”

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Psychosocial screening and monitoring for children in foster care: Psychometric properties of the Brief Assessment Checklist in a Dutch population study

Goemans

Tarren‐Sweeney

Geel

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Clin Child Psychol Psychiatry

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Children in foster care experience higher levels and rates of psychosocial difficulties than children from the general population. Governments and child welfare services have a responsibility to identify those children in care who have need for therapeutic services. This can be achieved through systematic screening and monitoring of psychosocial difficulties among all children in foster care. However, general screening and assessment measures such as the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) and Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) might not adequately screen for the range of difficulties experienced by foster children. The Brief Assessment Checklists for Children (BAC-C) and Brief Assessment Checklists for Adolescents (BAC-A) are measures designed to screen for and monitor attachment- and trauma-related difficulties among child welfare populations. This article reports psychometric properties of the BAC-C and BAC-A, estimated in a population study of 219 Dutch foster children. The results suggest the BAC-C and BAC-A perform both screening and monitoring functions well. Their screening accuracy, internal reliability and concurrent validity are comparable to those estimated for the SDQ within the same child and adolescent sample. Future research is needed to assess the value of the Brief Assessment Checklists (BAC) compared to other measures and to validate cut-points for the BAC. This study further establishes the BAC-A and BAC-C as valid and useful mental health screening and monitoring measures for use with children and adolescents in foster care.

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“…Different risk factors for vulnerability have been described in research so far. Some of them may include different characteristics of the family or context a child lives in (Bradley et al, 2001;Gaynor, 2015;Pettit et al, 1997) like poverty (Blair & Raver, 2016;Chaudry & Wimer, 2016;Kalil, 2009;Letourneau et al, 2013), number of siblings, overcrowding and similar housing arrangements (Leventhal & Newman, 2010), conflict, divorce, abuse and violence in family relations (Cummings et al, 2009;Holmes, 2013;Howell et al, 2016), or living in non-parental family care (Goemans et al, 2016;Lipscomb et al, 2013;Waterman et al, 2013) or residential care (Oliveira et al, 2015). Others may include child characteristics such as premature birth, low birth weight (Cassiano, Gaspardo, & Linhares, 2016), disability or chronic illness, etc.…”

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Kindergarten As Protective Factor In Development Of Preschool Children From Risk Groups: Capacities perception of preschool teachers / Vrtić kao zaštitni čimbenik u razvoju predškolske djece iz rizičnih skupina: percepcija radnih kapaciteta odgajatelja

Vorkapić

Mihić

Matovina³

2019

Croatian Journal of Education

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The study included 161 preschool teachers from different kindergartens in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County. The Scale for assessing the risk conditions for children and capacity of kindergartens to work with families at risk was applied. It consists of two subscales that measure the level of risk conditions and preschool teachers' competences to work with children from risk groups (children: with disabilities, members of the Roma minority, safeguarded by the Social Services, the ones who come from families which provide a low level of stimulation, from families with chronically ill member(s), with divorced/divorcing parents, and whose mother suffers from depression). The higher levels of risk of particular conditions of preschool children and expected difficulties in their development were determined. Preschool teachers evaluated that they have moderate possibilities for work with children from families at risk, and estimated there is a higher level of benefit that children can have from being in kindergarten. The significant positive correlations between the levels of risk, the expected difficulties and the benefit that children could have from being in kindergarten, but only for some of the explored types of risk, were determined. The contribution of this study lies in the significant implications for improving educational practices in the direction of articulating the needs for further education of preschool teachers in the context of different developmental risk.

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Developmental Outcomes of Foster Children

Cited by 82 publications

References 93 publications

Children Placed In Out-of-Home Care as Midlife Adults: Are They Still Disadvantaged or Have They Caught Up With Their Peers?

Children Placed In Out-of-Home Care as Midlife Adults: Are They Still Disadvantaged or Have They Caught Up With Their Peers?

Psychosocial screening and monitoring for children in foster care: Psychometric properties of the Brief Assessment Checklist in a Dutch population study

Kindergarten As Protective Factor In Development Of Preschool Children From Risk Groups: Capacities perception of preschool teachers / Vrtić kao zaštitni čimbenik u razvoju predškolske djece iz rizičnih skupina: percepcija radnih kapaciteta odgajatelja

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