Finding Parallels: The Experiences of Clinical Social Workers Providing Attachment-Based Treatment to Children in Foster Care

Shea, Sarah

doi:10.1007/s10615-014-0488-z

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“…Support and supervision for foster families is probably key to preventing placement breakdown (Rooij van, Maskaant, Weijers, Weijers, & Hermanns, 2015). Shea (2015) has suggested that systematic work with establishing a holding professional team around each young person in placement is important, considering the many and complex relations surrounding a young person in foster care.…”

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Effects of Mentalization-based Interventions on Mental Health of Youths in Foster Care

Åkerman

Holmqvist

Frostell

et al. 2020

Child Care in Practice

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Knowledge about the development of mental health in young people in foster care is limited. This naturalistic study examined the effects of a relational and mentalization-focused treatment in foster families in Sweden on the placed young people's mental health. The Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA) was used to measure change in psychiatric symptoms. Self-ratings showed significant improvements and medium to strong effects after 24 months in both boys and girls. No significant changes were found in the foster parents' ratings or in the school staff's ratings. Foster parents' ratings suggested that girls' behavioral problems decreased, but not the boys'. Based on these findings, we want to emphasize the importance of evaluating treatment effects using self-ratings by the young people in addition to parents' and parent substitutes' ratings.

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Effects of Mentalization-based Interventions on Mental Health of Youths in Foster Care

Åkerman

Holmqvist

Frostell

et al. 2020

Child Care in Practice

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“…20 Shea's 2015 online survey with therapeutic providers delivering attachment-based treatment to children in foster care found that they experience similar feelings of helplessness and hopelessness as the children they are serving, being without a significant sense of control within the system. 21 Another study in Washington state involved interviews with child welfare caseworkers, but also engaged therapeutic providers through surveys. 22 Both groups of professionals reported challenges working with clients involved in the child welfare system.…”

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Exploring the Experiences of Child Welfare-Focused Therapeutic Service Providers

Colvin

Thompson

2019

J Behav Health Serv Res

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The importance of mental and behavioral health for child welfare clients is well-documented; yet, little is known about the challenges therapeutic service providers (TSPs) experience working in child welfare practice. To explore this topic, five focus groups were conducted with 40 TSPs in a contracted mental and behavioral health agency and data were analyzed following an inductive thematic process. Eleven primary challenges were identified, including the difficulty of navigating numerous involved parties, an overwhelmed work environment, legal intersections common to child welfare cases, unrealistic agency expectations, and heighten case complexity when working with child welfare populations. Findings are organized across system, agency, and client levels and add to the understanding of TSP perspectives working with child welfare. Targeted interventions are discussed, such as efforts to promote realistic expectations and training strategies, as well as directions for future research to improve the intersection between child welfare and mental and behavioral health.

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From Foster Care to Adoption and Guardianship: A Twenty-First Century Challenge

Rolock

Pérez

White

et al. 2017

Child Adolesc Soc Work J

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Finding Parallels: The Experiences of Clinical Social Workers Providing Attachment-Based Treatment to Children in Foster Care

Cited by 7 publications

References 31 publications

Effects of Mentalization-based Interventions on Mental Health of Youths in Foster Care

Effects of Mentalization-based Interventions on Mental Health of Youths in Foster Care

Exploring the Experiences of Child Welfare-Focused Therapeutic Service Providers

From Foster Care to Adoption and Guardianship: A Twenty-First Century Challenge

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