Indicators for Placement in Foster Care

Strijker, J.

doi:10.1093/bjsw/32.2.217

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“…Considering that contraindications are useful but fail to indicate when foster care is appropriate Van Dam, Nordkamp, and Robbroeckx (2000) propose to make foster care placement decisions on the basis of nine central themes: demographic characteristics, placement history, family of origin (relationship with birth parents, acceptance by the parents of the placement. .…”

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“…This may explain why they were unable to predict a breakdown. Strijker, Zandberg and Van der Meulen (2002) have since developed a third typology, based on the problem behavior of the foster child and parental problems. They identified two clusters.…”

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“…The characteristics of the 'externalizing' cluster (31%) are serious problem behavior in the foster child, family conflict and inadequate parenting. The characteristics of the 'normal' cluster (69%) are absence of problem behavior in the foster child, moderate family conflict and inadequate parenting due to a lack of parenting skills (Strijker et al, 2002). This typology is significantly associated with breakdown: from the age of four years and two months, children belonging to the externalizing cluster are more at risk for a breakdown.…”

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Foster care assessment: A study of the placement decision process in Flanders

Vanderfaeillie

Pijnenburg

Damen

et al. 2015

Child Abuse & Neglect

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Section: Research Into Clusters Of Children In Foster Carementioning

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Section: Research Into Clusters Of Children In Foster Carementioning

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Foster care assessment: A study of the placement decision process in Flanders

Vanderfaeillie

Pijnenburg

Damen

et al. 2015

Child Abuse & Neglect

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“…Studies conducted in the United States (Fanshel, Finch & Grundy, 1990;Teather, Davidson & Pecora, 1994), in continental Europe (Kalland & Sinkonnen, 2001;Strijker, Zandberg & van der Meulen, 2002), the United Kingdom (Rowe, Hundleby & Garnett, 1989;Thoburn, 1991), and Australia (Barber, Delfabbro & Cooper, 2001;Fernandez, 1999), all confirm the vulnerability of a sub-group of children and young people in alternative care populations across the Western world to placement breakdown.…”

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The Special Youth Carer Program: An Innovative Program for At-Risk Adolescents in Foster Care

Gilbertson

Richardson²,

Barber

2005

Child Youth Care Forum

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Placement instability is a pervasive and long-standing problem which adversely affects outcomes for many young people in foster care. The Special Youth Carer (SYC) program, developed in South Australia in response to the needs of at-risk adolescents, is an innovative model aimed at reducing placement instability and promoting positive behavior change. Based primarily upon the Treatment Foster Care (TFC) model, SYC incorporates an additional defining feature: in the event of a placement breakdown, it is the carer and not the young person who leaves the home. This report includes a description of the program, an overview of outcomes for eight of the first program participants who were monitored over a 12-month period, and interviews with two carers who experienced the breakdown of an SYC placement. Positive behavioral change was reported for most participants, and there were some noteworthy improvements in placement stability.KEY WORDS: placement breakdown; placement stability; lead tenant; foster care; treatment foster care.

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“…Minty (1999) and Strijker, Zandberg, and Van der Meulen (2002a), found that child variables, conduct problems, mental health problems and age are associated with breakdown and are most frequently mentioned in the literature. These findings have been confirmed (for Australia) in studies by Barber, Delfabbro, and Cooper (2001) and Barber and Delfabbro (2002): Children over 10 years with mental health problems or conduct disorders are the least likely to survive in foster care, presumably because of their disruptive behaviour.…”

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Typologies and Outcomes for Foster Children

Strijker

Zandberg

Meulen

2005

Child Youth Care Forum

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This study reports on the use of the Child Behaviour Checklist for children aged 4-18 (CBLC/4-18) as a tool for creating typologies for children and relating these to foster care outcomes. Findings regarding outcomes were consistent with previous studies that focused on child variables rather than profiles, however profiles do appear to be helpful with identifying to categories of children who are most vulnerable to foster placement breakdown: withdrawn children and aggressive-delinquent children.KEY WORDS: foster children; outcome; typology.If parents are no longer capable of rearing their child, the child may be referred to some form of foster care. Traditionally, foster care used to be provided as a long-term settlement for the child. In the course of time new forms of foster care have been developed, such as temporary foster care as a way of crisis intervention (duration of the child's stay in the foster family is restricted to three months) and therapeutic foster care (these foster children have more severe problems than those in long-term foster care). According to McAuley and Trew (2000) the most striking problem of long-term foster care is the high rate of breakdowns, that is unfavourable terminations of care, which varies between 20 and 50%, depending on the geographical region concerned. Breakdowns usually have a negative affect on foster children. Larsson, Bohlin, and Stenbacka (1986) suggest that a premature termination may induce the child to develop more emotional and behaviour problems, which in turn trigger more premature terminated placements and consequently more and more emotional and behaviour problems. Children without problem behaviour also show an increased risk of emotional and behavioural problems after placement in another foster

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Indicators for Placement in Foster Care

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Foster care assessment: A study of the placement decision process in Flanders

Foster care assessment: A study of the placement decision process in Flanders

The Special Youth Carer Program: An Innovative Program for At-Risk Adolescents in Foster Care

Typologies and Outcomes for Foster Children

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