Foster Care Alumni’s Perceptions of Mental Health Services Received While in Foster Care

Villagrana, Margarita

doi:10.1007/s10560-021-00803-7

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“…Better stakeholder understanding may lead to greater empathy and more suitable interventions to help youth and prevent exacerbation of their challenges or compounding their sense of isolation and lack of control (O ce of the Administration for Children and Youth, 2020; Villagrana, 2021). There is also the need for systems that are better designed to enable all professional stakeholders to respond to children and youth who may be affected by their challenging experiences with empathy.…”

Section: Role Of the Benchmentioning

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Adaptive responsivity: a Youth-Driven Model for Thriving in Foster Care

Shdaimah

Zhao

2022

Child Adolesc Soc Work J

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With notable and growing exceptions, there is a dearth of research on mechanisms by which youth in foster care build resilience and achieve positive outcomes. We report on data from an interview study with young adults exiting or recently exited foster care in Maryland (N=15) designed to understand what facilitates their engagement with courts. Our findings indicate that despite challenges of ?being in foster care?, youth found ways to pursue their goals and make their voices heard through developing stable relationships with supportive adults (including judges, caseworkers, or lawyers) and demanding that child welfare professionals ?speak to me not at me.? Youth indicated that their needs, capabilities, and goals changed as they matured and as their circumstances changed. Such changes helped them find their voices but also created tensions within their child welfare system interactions. This led us to develop the theory of adaptive responsivity, according to which child welfare stakeholders should respond appropriately to developmental and circumstantial changes to help child-welfare involved youth face difficult circumstances and thrive. Such responses include providing developmentally and situationally appropriate information and decision-making power to youth in their own cases as well as opportunities to weigh in on systems change.

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Section: Role Of the Benchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adaptive responsivity: a Youth-Driven Model for Thriving in Foster Care

Shdaimah

Zhao

2022

Child Adolesc Soc Work J

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“…Previous research on care leavers’ resilience has predominantly emphasized the retrospective views of care leavers regarding their time in care and its potential impact on their lives, with the main focus being on the transition from care to independent living (Atkinson & Hyde, 2019; Häggman-Laitila et al, 2020). Alternatively, some studies have delved into specific protective factors within the care setting, such as mentorship (Spencer et al, 2019; Sulimani-Aidan, 2022), independent living programs (Sulimani-Aidan et al, 2013), or particular domains such as mental health services during their time in care (Villagrana, 2023).…”

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Out-of-Home Care Experiences and Their Influence on the Journey to Adulthood: Insights From Care Leavers in Israel

Sulimani-Aidan,

Kovach

2024

Emerging Adulthood

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In the current qualitative study we explored care leavers’ perceptions of the influence of their out-of-home placement experiences in shaping their lives during the transition to adulthood. Forty-seven care leavers aged 18 to 29, who had been in residential care facilities or foster care, participated in semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis revealed two major themes – (1) participants’ perception of care as an environment that fostered self-improvement and the development of skills including interpersonal skills, and (2) care as a place of belonging and regaining of trust and self-worth – and five sub-themes. In the discussion we address the role of out-of-home placements in relation to life course theory and the developmental tasks of emerging adulthood. Implications for practice include the importance of engaging youth who are in care with future-oriented activities that enhance their readiness for young adulthood.

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Foster Care Alumni’s Perceptions of Mental Health Services Received While in Foster Care

Cited by 2 publications

References 28 publications

Adaptive responsivity: a Youth-Driven Model for Thriving in Foster Care

Adaptive responsivity: a Youth-Driven Model for Thriving in Foster Care

Out-of-Home Care Experiences and Their Influence on the Journey to Adulthood: Insights From Care Leavers in Israel

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