Foster children's behavior problems and impulsivity in the family and school context

Bernedo, Isabel M.; Salas, María D.; Fuentes, María Jesús; García-Martín, Miguel Ángel

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2014.03.022

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“…With respect to age of admission , children in foster care were on average between 7 and 11 years old (Barber and Delfabbro 2009 ; Bernedo et al 2014 ; James et al 2012 ; Minnis et al 2006 ; Strijker et al 2008 , 2002 ). Only Tarren-Sweeney ( 2013 ) found an average age of 3.5 years at entry into care, although this presumably concerns the age at first placement.…”

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“…A recent study of Yampolskaya et al ( 2014 ) found that more than half (53 %) of the children in care had such problems. With regard to foster care, the reported percentage of foster children with emotional problems varied from 14 to 45 %, mostly as measured with the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) (Armsden et al 2000 ; Bernedo et al 2014 ; James et al 2012 ; Minnis et al 2006 ; Scholte 1997 ; Sullivan 2008 ; Tarren-Sweeney 2013 ; Vanderfaeillie et al 2013 ). Within residential care, this prevalence rate varied from 39 to 57 % (James et al 2012 ; Scholte 1997 ; Scholte and Van der Ploeg 2010 ).…”

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Characteristics of Children in Foster Care, Family-Style Group Care, and Residential Care: A Scoping Review

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When risky child and family circumstances cannot be resolved at home, (temporary) 24-h out-of-home placement of the child may be an alternative strategy. To identify specific placement risks and needs, care professionals must have information about the child and his or her family, care history, and social-cultural characteristics at admission to out-of-home care. However, to date information on case characteristics and particular their similarities and differences across the three main types of out-of-home settings (namely foster care, family-style group care, and residential care) is largely lacking. This review compiles and compares characteristics of school-aged children of average intelligence and their families at the time of each child’s admission to one of the three care modalities. A scoping review technique that provides a broad search strategy and ensures sufficient coverage of the available literature is used. Based on the 36 studies included, there is consensus that the majority of normally intelligent children in care demonstrate severe developmental and behavioral problems. However, the severeness as well as the kinds of defining characteristics present differ among the children in foster care, family-style group care, and residential care. The review also identifies several existing knowledge gaps regarding relevant risk factors. Future research is recommended to fill these gaps and determine the developmental pathway in relation to children’s risks and needs at admission. This will contribute to the development of an evidence-based risks and needs assessment tool that will enable care professionals to make informed referrals to a specific type of out-of-home care when such a placement is required.

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Characteristics of Children in Foster Care, Family-Style Group Care, and Residential Care: A Scoping Review

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“…Accordingly, the presence of these fears, insecurities and uncertainties can be noted and the need for intervention highlighted to provide parents with the tools for managing their emotions in this phase of the reunification process Del Valle & Fuertes, 2007). Some authors note that people passing through situations of risk attribute positive value to receiving support from other people who are experiencing or who have experienced the same situation (Bernedo, Salas, Fuentes, & García-Martín, 2014;Milani et al, 2013). For families who are in this process, feeling supported by others prevents feelings of solitude, frustration, incomprehension and isolation.…”

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Exploring the needs of parents for achieving reunification: The views of foster children, birth family and social workers in Spain

Balsells

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Inchaurrondo

et al. 2015

Children and Youth Services Review

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Background: Family reunification refers to the process through which children and adolescents under a measure of temporary separation (foster care or residential) return to live with their biological families. The research has begun to reflect a paradigm change in intervention and support for these families that affects the consolidation of reunification and the prevention of new processes of separation and reentry into the protection system. Objectives: This article examines the needs of parents who are susceptible to an educational intervention from a positive focus that contributes to the consolidation of family reunification. Method: Eighteen semi-structured interviews were conducted and 22 discussion groups were convened with 135 participants (63 protection-system professionals, 42 parents and 30 children and adolescents). The data were analyzed through content analysis and were subject to peer revision. Results: A series of parents' specific educational needs when their children return home was recognized. These needs can be the objects of family intervention based on a positive focus directed toward highlighting parents' strengths and are related to awareness of family progress, emotional management, giving and receiving help from other families and social support. The participants' comments show that feelings of self-sufficiency and positive reinforcement are fundamental for consolidation of the process. Conclusions: Social support through formal and informal networks may be a path to explore for providing more and better support after returning home. Empowering families so that they can be agents of support for other families can be a way to consolidate reunification, allowing families to be active agents in the reunification process. In addition, listening to children's voices can be a good strategy for family consolidation.

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“…Foster children and adolescents often display psychological and behaviour problems (Bernedo et al . ; Van Holen et al . ), and more specifically, this also occurs in kinship foster children (Bernedo ; Jiménez & Palacios ).…”

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Contact between birth parents and children in kinship care in a sample from Spain

León

Morago

Muñoz-Silva

2016

Child & Family Social Work

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Within the context of kinship care, the main objectives of this work are to study the characteristics of contact between foster children and their birth parents, and their relationship with key variables of fostering, the children and their kinship caregivers. The sample included 189 children from Spain and their kinship families. A semi‐structured placement interview and two scales relating to the child–caregiver relationship and child's psychological adjustment were used with the kinship families. The results revealed a significant percentage of foster children who had no family contact. Various visit types, frequencies and durations were described. Kinship care with contact, compared with placements without contact, was frequently characterized by the absence of professional supervision, and an affectionate child–caregiver relationship; moreover, children with contact were perceived to have fewer serious behaviour and socio‐emotional problems and a greater probability of family reunification. The regression analysis showed that the main predictors for how caregivers assessed contact were the children's emotional reaction during visits and the quality of the relationship between the kinship families and the birth parents. These results suggest the need for further research about contact, which will certainly have a major impact on professional intervention with these families.

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Foster children's behavior problems and impulsivity in the family and school context

Cited by 39 publications

References 28 publications

Characteristics of Children in Foster Care, Family-Style Group Care, and Residential Care: A Scoping Review

Characteristics of Children in Foster Care, Family-Style Group Care, and Residential Care: A Scoping Review

Exploring the needs of parents for achieving reunification: The views of foster children, birth family and social workers in Spain

Contact between birth parents and children in kinship care in a sample from Spain

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