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An Exploratory Study Of The Characteristics Of Foster Parents And Their Commitment To The Foster Care Program
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Book Synopsis Care and Commitment by : William Meezan
Download or read book Care and Commitment written by William Meezan and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1985-11-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Care and Commitment is the first book to address the growing issue of foster parent adoption. Meezan and Shireman go directly to the source to find out why some foster parents, when given the opportunity, choose to adopt the children in their care while others do not. Differences between the two sets of families are explored in terms of family characteristics, child characteristics, family-child interaction, and child welfare agency service. The culmination of a two-year study, this book presents the perspectives of both families who have made the decision and their social workers. It affords also the first look at foster parent adoptions that have failed, highlighting the importance of agency service in such adoptions. The book's timely and original findings are crucial for child welfare practitioners and all those interested in permanency planning for children and in the processes of family formation.
Book Synopsis Take Me Home by : Jill Duerr Berrick
Download or read book Take Me Home written by Jill Duerr Berrick and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a profound crisis in the United States' foster care system, Jill Duerr Berrick writes in this expertly researched, passionately written book. No state has passed the federally mandated Child and Family Service Review; two-thirds of the state systems have faced class-action lawsuits demanding change; and most tellingly, well over half of all children who enter foster care never go home. The field of child welfare has lost its way and is neglecting its fundamental responsibility to the most vulnerable children and families in America. The family stories Berrick weaves throughout the chapters provide a vivid backdrop for her statistics. Amanda, raised in foster care, began having children of her own while still a teen and lost them to the system when she became addicted to drugs. Tracy, brought up by her schizophrenic single mother, gave birth to the first of eight children at age fourteen and saw them all shuffled through foster care as she dealt drugs and went to prison. Both they and the other individuals that Berrick features spent years without adequate support from social workers or the government before finally achieving a healthier life; many people never do. But despite the clear crisis in child welfare, most calls for reform have focused on unproven prevention methods, not on improving the situation for those already caught in the system. Berrick argues that real child welfare reform will only occur when the centerpiece of child welfare - reunification, permanency, and foster care - is reaffirmed. Take Me Home reminds us that children need long-term caregivers who can help them develop and thrive. When troubled parents can't change enough to permit reunification, alternative permanency options must be pursued. And no reform will matter for the hundreds of thousands of children entering foster care each year in America unless their experience of out-of-home care is considerably better than the one many now experience. Take Me Home offers prescriptions for policy change and strategies for parents, social workers, and judges struggling with permanency decisions. Readers will come away reinvigorated in their thinking about how to get children to the homes they need.
Book Synopsis Children in Foster Care by : James Barber
Download or read book Children in Foster Care written by James Barber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researchers, practitioners, journalists and politicians increasingly recognise that foster care throughout the world is in a state of crisis. There are more and more children needing care and, as residential alternatives dry up, more of these children are being assigned to foster families. This book reports the major findings of a two-year longitudinal study of 235 such children who entered the foster care system in Southern Australia between 1998 and 1999. As well as examining the changing policy context of children's services, the book documents the psychosocial outcomes for these children, their feedback on their experiences of care, and the views of their social workers and carers. In the process, the book examines some cherished beliefs about foster care policy and sheds new light on them. The research reveals that while most children do quite well in foster care up to the two-year point, there is a worrying amount of placement instability at a time when the concentration of emotionally troubled children in care is increasing throughout the western world. Although, surprisingly, placement instability does not appear to produce psychosocial impairment for a period of up to eight months in care, it has an extreme effect on children who are moved from placement to placement because no carer will tolerate their behaviour. These children are consigned to a life of distribution and emotional upheaval because of the lack of alternative forms of care. Another unexpected finding of the research is that increasing the rate of parental contact achieves little or nothing in relation to the likelihood of family reunification. As child welfare increasingly enters a world of research-based practice, Children in Foster Care provides some much needed hard evidence of how foster care policy and practice can be improved.
Book Synopsis Dissertation Abstracts International by :
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Masters Abstracts International by :
Download or read book Masters Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis From Child Abuse to Foster Care by : Mark Courtney
Download or read book From Child Abuse to Foster Care written by Mark Courtney and published by AldineTransaction. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Aldine de Gruyter, c1994, in series: Modern applications of social work.
Book Synopsis Growing Up in Foster Care by : Gillian Schofield
Download or read book Growing Up in Foster Care written by Gillian Schofield and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-term foster care is one of the best kept secrets of the child care system. It is rarely mentioned as a positive option yet there is a significant group of vulnerable looked after children for whom growing up in a long-term foster family is their best chance of a secure family life. this new study looks at a group of 58 children under the age of 12 recently placed in long-term foster families. It provides a fascinating insight into their lives, their birth families, foster families and the system of social work practice that will define their future.
Author :The St. Petersburg-USA Orphanage Research Team Publisher :John Wiley & Sons ISBN 13 :1444309692 Total Pages :300 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (443 download)
Book Synopsis The Effects of Early Social-Emotional and Relationship Experience on the Development of Young Orphanage Children by : The St. Petersburg-USA Orphanage Research Team
Download or read book The Effects of Early Social-Emotional and Relationship Experience on the Development of Young Orphanage Children written by The St. Petersburg-USA Orphanage Research Team and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undertaken at orphanages in Russia, this study tests the role of early social and emotion experience in the development of children. Children were exposed to either multiple caregivers who performed routine duties in a perfunctory manner with minimal interaction or fewer caregivers who were trained to engage in warm, responsive, and developmentally appropriate interactions during routine care. Engaged and responsive caregivers were associated with substantial improvements in child development and these findings provide a rationale for making similar improvements in other institutions, programs, and organizations.
Download or read book Research in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1488 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Adoption and Foster Care, 1975, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Children and Youth of ..., 94-1, April 28 & 29, 1975; July 14 & 18, 1975 by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Download or read book Adoption and Foster Care, 1975, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Children and Youth of ..., 94-1, April 28 & 29, 1975; July 14 & 18, 1975 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 1488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Children and Youth Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1004 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (18 download)
Book Synopsis Adoption and Foster Care, 1975 by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Children and Youth
Download or read book Adoption and Foster Care, 1975 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Children and Youth and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis From Child Abuse to Permanency Planning by :
Download or read book From Child Abuse to Permanency Planning written by and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than two million child abuse reports are filed annually on behalf of children in the United States. Each of the reported children becomes a concern, at least temporarily, of the professional who files the report, and each family is assessed by additional professionals. A substantial number of children in these families will subsequently enter foster care. Until now, the relationships between the performance of our child welfare system and the growth and outcomes of foster care have not been understood. In an effort to clarify them, Barth and his colleagues have synthesized the results of their longitudinal study in California of the paths taken by children after the initial abuse report: foster care, a return to their homes, or placement for adoption. Because the outcomes of child welfare services in California have national significance, this is far more than a regional study. It provides a comprehensive picture of children's experiences in the child welfare system, and a gauge of the effectiveness of that system. The policy implications of the California study have bearing on major federal and state initiatives to prevent child abuse and reduce unnecessary foster and group home care.
Book Synopsis American Doctoral Dissertations by :
Download or read book American Doctoral Dissertations written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foster Carers written by Ian Sinclair and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foster care, which can include both long- and short-term placements, is the most common way in which local authorities look after other people's children. Examining the problems and the positive experiences of those providing care, Foster Carers is essential reading for social work professionals, academics and foster carers themselves. Through questionnaire responses from over a thousand foster carers across seven different local authorities, the authors highlight the importance of identifying and fulfilling appropriate kinds of care; the need to recruit and retain carers; and, finally, examin.
Book Synopsis The Neurobiology of Parental Behavior by : Michael Numan
Download or read book The Neurobiology of Parental Behavior written by Michael Numan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-06-11 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to filling a need within the field of parental behavior, this book contributes importantly to the growing area of emotional and motivational neuroscience. A major part of neuroscience research at the whole organism level has been focused on cognitive neuroscience, with an emphasis on the neurobiology of learning and memory, but there has been a recent upsurge in research which is attempting to define the neural basis of basic motivational and emotional systems which regulate such behaviors as food intake, aggression, reproduction, reward-seeking behaviors, and anxiety-related behaviors. In this book the emphasis is on the research findings obtained from rodents, sheep and primates. The authors' goal, of course, was to provide a foundation that may help us understand the neurobiology of human parental behavior. Indeed, the last chapter attempts to integrate the non-human research data with some human data in order to make some inroads toward an understanding of postpartum depression, child abuse, and child neglect. Clearly, motivational and emotional neuroscience has close ties to psychiatry, and this connection will be very evident in the final chapter. By understanding the neurobiology of parental behavior we are also delving into neurobiological factors which may have an impact on core human characteristics involved in sociality, social attachment, nurturing behavior, and love. In this very violent world, it is hard to conceive of a group of characteristics that are more worthy of study.
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Compendium of HHS Evaluations and Relevant Other Studies by : HHS Policy Information Center (U.S.)
Download or read book Compendium of HHS Evaluations and Relevant Other Studies written by HHS Policy Information Center (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
