Increasing parenting self-efficacy in foster carers: an evaluation of the attachment-centred parenting programme

Begum, Jamila; Copello, Sue; Jones, Louisa

doi:10.1080/02667363.2020.1795628

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“…Among the six UK studies reporting interventions, there were four intervention types: attachment-centered parenting ( Begum et al, 2020 ), IY Parenting Program ( Hutchings & Bywater, 2013 ), Reflective Fostering Program ( Midgley et al, 2019 , 2021 ; Ranzato et al, 2021 ), and KEEP—Keeping foster and kinship carers trained and supported program ( Roberts et al, 2016 ). All were designed to reduce the negative effect of children’s challenging behaviors on the psychological well-being of carers.…”

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“…All were designed to reduce the negative effect of children’s challenging behaviors on the psychological well-being of carers. The attachment-centered parenting program showed increased carer confidence to manage children’s needs and implement therapeutic parenting as outcomes ( Begum et al, 2020 ). Program outcomes of IY was significant reduction in child problem behaviors in association with lower levels of depression among the carers ( Hutchings & Bywater, 2013 ).…”

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“…A variety of factors have been found to associated with stress and well-being among carers, such as fostered children’s emotional and behavioral issues ( Fergeus et al, 2019a , 2019b ; Harnett et al, 2014 ; McKeough et al, 2017 ), the authoritative and reductionist attitudes of welfare workers ( Fergeus et al, 2019b ), and dealing with complex sociopolitical issues ( Blythe et al, 2013 ). Many interventions have also been developed to reduce carers’ stress, such as the Incredible Years (IY) Parenting Program ( Hutchings & Bywater, 2013 ); the Circle Program (CP) ( Frederico et al, 2014 ), and attachment-centered parenting ( Begum et al, 2020 ). However, there is a lack of research to integrate different factors about stress and well-being among foster and kinship carers and interventions to reduce these feelings in a systematic way.…”

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Professional Quality of Life of Foster and Kinship Carers in Australia, United Kingdom, and the United States: A Scoping Review

McLaren,

Patmisari,

Huang

2023

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

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Professional quality of life (ProQOL) refers to workers’ subjective feelings associated with work involved in helping others who have experienced trauma. It consists of positive and negative aspects, that is, subscales of compassion satisfaction, and burnout and secondary traumatic stress. Foster and kinship caring inherently involves risks associated with exposure to the trauma responses of children in their care. This exposure can lead to poor ProQOL, carer attrition, and placement instability. While limited studies specifically explore ProQOL of carers, many studies have examined factors and interventions related to ProQOL. However, there is a lack of synthesis of these studies. To fill such a research gap, we undertook a scoping review of 70 empirical studies from Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, published from 2012 to 2022 reporting on ProQOL, and its related factors and concepts. We applied a multilevel ecosocial construct to examine complex interrelationships between private and governance settings to better understand factors related to ProQOL of carers and interventions aimed to improve it in these dynamic systems. In our review, some studies showed positive outcomes for carers, such as reduced stress or burnout associated with training. However, there was insufficient attention to factors associated with ProQOL at relational and sociopolitical levels. It is crucial to improve carers’ ProQOL or well-being to ensure their retention and placement stability. Long-term systemic improvements require interventions across different levels of the system.

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Professional Quality of Life of Foster and Kinship Carers in Australia, United Kingdom, and the United States: A Scoping Review

McLaren,

Patmisari,

Huang

2023

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

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“…Statutory requirements of carers require significant training to enable managing children and young people with significant histories of abuse and neglect, and multiple placements, causing mental health issues and behavioural problems (Engler et al, 2020). Research consistently shows that support, training and access to resources reduce frustration, stress and burnout among carers, leading to better outcomes for those who they care for (Begum et al, 2020; Dalgaard et al, 2022; Green et al, 2021; Harding et al, 2020; Harkness, 2019; Midgley et al, 2021; Vanderwill et al, 2021); however, research also indicates that training may not satisfy or meet the perceived needs of carers (Kaasbøll et al, 2019). When training is not seen as helping, carers feel unsupported or they perceive inequitable distribution of resources, this can exacerbate their frustration and stress (Fernandes et al, 2021; Zuchowski et al, 2019).…”

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Piloting the Mockingbird Family™ in Australia: Experiences of foster carers and agency workers

McLaren,

Patmisari,

Jones

et al. 2023

Child & Family Social Work

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Given that the number of children and young people needing care keeps rising and fewer people are becoming foster carers, efforts to support carers and workers in foster caring are essential. This paper considers the experiences of carers and foster care agency workers involved in Australia's piloting of the Mockingbird Family. With a view understanding experience, data were collected via focus groups with carers and agency workers (n = 20) involved in piloting, implementation and evaluation. Deductive analysis applied the theory of experience to generate understanding of experience, as both intrinsic and extrinsic dimensions to capture strengths in the Mockingbird Family's foster caring networks. These dimensions of experience included collective passions of carers and workers; experiential change over time; collective experiences as a moving force; and experiences as transformational. Understanding of experience associated with the perceived strengths of the Mockingbird Family, including strategies to promote strong professional relationships between carers and workers, is an important element in strengthening environments of children and young people in care. Safe and stable environments are crucial for wellbeing.

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“…In contemporary times, attachment relationships continue to be a hallmark indicator of child/parent relational health and a determinant of immediate and long‐term wellness. As such, efforts to nurture security within the infant/parent dyad have become main to parenting programs internationally (Begum et al, 2020; Berlin et al, 2014; Powell et al, 2016). Requisite to these attachment parenting interventions, and not comprehensively explored, however, is formal qualitative data that explicitly investigates the delivery and content facets capturing the voices of program participants.…”

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Capturing the voices of mothers: Delivery and content efficacy of a community attachment parenting program

Bonnett

McCorquodale

Schouten³

2021

Journal Community Psychology

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This qualitative case study sought to examine the delivery and content efficacy of a community attachment parenting program developed and hosted by an attachment and trauma‐informed organization that services infants and their pre‐ or postnatal mothers in Ontario, Canada. A focus group and participant reflective journals were employed to amplify the voices of mothers who engaged in the 8‐week program. Five overarching themes surfaced in the data which include (1) infant/mother attachment, (2) program delivery validations and recommendations, (3) program content validations and recommendations, (4) facilitator delivery, content and relational competencies and (5) connections with others. The findings of this study are intended to inform future offerings of this program, as well as incite further research to illuminate the voices of mothers and other participants who engage in attachment‐postured community parenting programs across the globe.

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Increasing parenting self-efficacy in foster carers: an evaluation of the attachment-centred parenting programme

Cited by 8 publications

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Professional Quality of Life of Foster and Kinship Carers in Australia, United Kingdom, and the United States: A Scoping Review

Professional Quality of Life of Foster and Kinship Carers in Australia, United Kingdom, and the United States: A Scoping Review

Piloting the Mockingbird Family™ in Australia: Experiences of foster carers and agency workers

Capturing the voices of mothers: Delivery and content efficacy of a community attachment parenting program

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