Maltreated Children in Out-of-Home Care: The Relation between Attachment Quality and Internalizing Symptoms

Chesmore, Ashley A.; Weiler, Lindsey M.; Trump, Lisa; Landers, Ashley L.; Taussig, Heather N.

doi:10.1007/s10826-016-0567-6

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“…In addition to this, maltreated children tend not to address the interpersonal issues in the narrative by digressing and focusing on irrelevant details and avoiding important story themes; they are often constricted in their storytelling, producing incoherent, contradictory, disorganised or chaotic stories (Shields, Ryan and Cicchetti, 2001). Hence, the study findings are in line with previous research and suggest the deleterious effects of maltreatment on young children’s attachment patterns (Chesmore, et al., 2017; Davis, et al., 2014; Toth and Manly, 2018). They confirm the relationship between early experience of relational trauma and lost and insecure attachments (Raby and Dozier, 2019; Stronach, et al., 2013), typically of the disorganised-disoriented type response (Barnett, Vondra and Schonk, 1996).…”

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confidence: 91%

Assessing changes in the internal worlds of early- and late-adopted children using the Story Stem Assessment Profile (SSAP)

Hillman

Hodges

Steele

et al. 2020

Adoption & Fostering

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A growing body of literature has consistently shown how adopted children often have previous history of trauma and neglect, and in turn develop negative representations of the self and others. This study assesses the internal representations of three groups of children, as measured by the Story Stem Assessment Profile (SSAP). These were: (1) a maltreated, late-adopted (MLA) sample (n = 63); (2) a non-maltreated, early-adopted (EA) sample (n = 48); and (3) a non-maltreated community sample (COMM) (n = 80). In addition, it examined whether MLA and EA adopted children’s attachment and internal representations changed over time. Results showed that children in the MLA sample significantly displayed more disorganised, avoidant and negative representations and fewer representations characteristic of ‘secure’ attachment when compared with EA and, especially, COMM children. Longitudinal follow-up of both MLA and EA samples demonstrated significant changes over a two-year period in SSAP representation; secure representations increased while the avoidant and disorganised ones diminished. These findings are discussed and the limitations and implications of the study presented.

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confidence: 91%

Assessing changes in the internal worlds of early- and late-adopted children using the Story Stem Assessment Profile (SSAP)

Hillman

Hodges

Steele

et al. 2020

Adoption & Fostering

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“…14 F. F. I. 15 Highest education 16 Employment state 16 Ackerman and Dozier ( 2005 ) 19 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a M = 37.000$ Income (range 20.000–50.000) M = 1 year of college (SD = 2) n/a Bovenschen et al ( 2016 ) 9 46 45.18 (n/a) n/a 1.2 (0.84) n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a Chesmore et al ( 2017 ) 9 6,1 n/a n/a 2,7 both n/a n/a n/a n/a Cooley et al ( 2015 ) n/a 40 (3.98) n/a n/a n/a n/a De Robertis and Litrownik ( 2004 ) n/a n/a n/a n/a Both n/a Median range: 30.000–34.999$ n/a n/a De Schipper et al ( 2012 ) 9 35.12 43.5 (7.1) n/a n/a …”

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Foster Parents’ Parenting and the Social-Emotional Development and Adaptive Functioning of Children in Foster Care: A PRISMA-Guided Literature Review and Meta-Analysis

Chodura

Lohaus

Symanzik

et al. 2021

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

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Children in foster care (CFC) are at increased risk for negative developmental outcomes. Given the potential influence of foster parents’ parenting on the development of CFC, this literature review and meta-analysis provide an initial overview of how parenting factors in foster families relate to CFC’s developmental outcomes. We aimed to explore (1) whether foster parents’ parenting conceptualizations are related differently to various CFC developmental outcome variables and (2) how characteristics of foster parents and CFC moderate these associations. Following the recommendations of the PRISMA statement, we searched four databases in 2017 (with an update in May 2020). Forty-three primary studies were coded manually. The interrater agreement was 92.1%. Parenting variables were specified as parenting behavior, style, and goals and were distinguished further into functional and dysfunctional parenting. CFC development was divided into adaptive (including cognitive) development and maladaptive development. Meta-analyses could be performed for foster parenting behavior and developmental outcomes, as well as for functional parenting goals and maladaptive socioemotional outcomes in CFC. Associations between functional parenting behavior and adaptive child development were positive and negative for maladaptive child development, respectively. For dysfunctional, parenting effects were in the opposite direction. All effects were small to moderate. Similar results were found descriptively in the associations of parenting style and child developmental outcomes. We found similar effect sizes and directions of the associations between parenting behavior in foster families and the child’s developmental outcomes as those previously reported for biological families. These findings provide strong support for the significant role of parenting in foster families regarding children’s development in foster care.

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“…This trend is particularly true in the case of the foster parent–child relationships, which the majority of our nonbiological parents fall into. Children in out-of-home care experience numerous risk factors related to their placement experiences, such as frequent placement disruptions and loyalty conflicts, which can result in insecure attachments with their nonbiological caregiver (Chesmore et al, 2017). These insecure attachments can result in distrust and resentment of the caregiver by the child which could be interacting with our measure of corporal punishment thus leading these children to greater levels of criminality.…”

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confidence: 99%

Unpacking the Association Between Corporal Punishment and Criminal Involvement

Joyner

Beaver

2022

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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A great deal of research has revealed a link between corporal punishment and negative life outcomes, but the underlying mechanisms that explain how and why these associations exist are not well understood. The current study extends this line of research by analyzing a longitudinal sample of high-risk male and female youth drawn from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being. The analyses revealed that the use of corporal punishment was differentially used depending on certain parental behavioral characteristics. Even after accounting for such attributes, our models generally demonstrated that corporal punishment was associated with later criminal involvement. The models also revealed that the corporal punishment-criminal involvement link was dependent upon the relationship of the parent to the child being spanked. Our analyses additionally address the importance of proper model specification when examining the association between corporal punishment and later life outcomes. We conclude by discussing implications for future research.

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Maltreated Children in Out-of-Home Care: The Relation between Attachment Quality and Internalizing Symptoms

Cited by 23 publications

References 40 publications

Assessing changes in the internal worlds of early- and late-adopted children using the Story Stem Assessment Profile (SSAP)

Assessing changes in the internal worlds of early- and late-adopted children using the Story Stem Assessment Profile (SSAP)

Foster Parents’ Parenting and the Social-Emotional Development and Adaptive Functioning of Children in Foster Care: A PRISMA-Guided Literature Review and Meta-Analysis

Unpacking the Association Between Corporal Punishment and Criminal Involvement

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