Kinship care for the safety, permanency, and well-being of children removed from the home for maltreatment

Winokur, Marc; Holtan, Amy; Batchelder, Keri E.

doi:10.1002/14651858.cd006546.pub3

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“…The original review was coregistered with the Cochrane Collaboration and Campbell Collaboration and was published in 2009 (Winokur, Holtan, & Valentine, 2009). In keeping with Cochrane Collaboration policy, we updated the review to include studies published between March 2007 and March 2011 (Winokur, Holtan, & Batchelder, 2014).…”

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Systematic Review of Kinship Care Effects on Safety, Permanency, and Well-Being Outcomes

Winokur

Holtan

Batchelder

2015

Research on Social Work Practice

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Objective: Children in out-of-home placements typically display more educational, behavioral, and psychological problems than do their peers. This systematic review evaluated the effect of kinship care placement compared to foster care placement on the safety, permanency, and well-being of children removed from the home for maltreatment. Methods: Review authors independently read titles and abstracts identified in the searches, selected appropriate studies, assessed the eligibility of each study, evaluated the methodological quality, and extracted outcome data for meta-analysis. Results: Outcome data from the 102 included quasi-experimental studies suggest that, as compared to children in foster care, children in kinship care experience fewer behavioral problems and mental health disorders, better well-being, less placement disruption, fewer mental health services, and similar reunification rates. Conclusions: This review supports the practice of treating kinship care as a viable out-of-home placement option. This conclusion is tempered by methodological and design weaknesses of the included studies.

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Systematic Review of Kinship Care Effects on Safety, Permanency, and Well-Being Outcomes

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Holtan

Batchelder

2015

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“…Social work policy in recent years has favoured the placement of children with kinship carers over traditional foster care given the research evidence showing that children placed with kinship carers fare better than children placed with foster parents who have no kinship ties to the child (Winokur et al . ). Based on a Cochrane meta‐analysis of 62 studies, Winokur and colleagues found that children placed with kinship carers displayed lower levels of internalizing and externalizing behaviour problems and greater competence in adaptive behaviours when compared with children in foster care.…”

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An investigation of the needs of grandparents who are raising grandchildren

Harnett

Dawe

Russell

2012

Child & Family Social Work

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A B S T RA C TEvidence suggests that children in out-of-home care function better when placed in kinship compared with foster care. Less is known about the functioning of children in the unique form of kinship care where grandparents are caring full-time for their grandchildren in informal care arrangements. As grandparent carers are increasingly taking on this role, it is timely to investigate the functioning of the children in this form of care and the characteristics of the grandparents themselves. We compared the functioning of children in the two types of care. We also investigated carer characteristics, including the relationship between child functioning, social support and daily hassles on carer stress. One hundred fourteen cares and 180 children were assessed on a range of demographic and clinical measures. Children in grandparent care were displaying better behavioural and adaptive functioning than children living with foster carers. Grandparent carers reported higher levels of distress in the carer role. Predictors of carer stress included severity of child behaviour problems and daily hassles. Both group of carers and the children in their care would benefit from increased support from treatment services.

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“…However, in my experience, Australian social Australian Social Work 285 workers are often unaware of this resource that may support their practice. Recent Cochrane reviews of interest to social workers include "Efficacy and experiences of telephone counselling for informal carers of people with dementia" (Lins et al, 2014) and "Kinship care for the safety, permanency, and well-being of children removed from the home for maltreatment" (Winokur, Holtan, & Batchelder, 2014). Similarly, there is limited awareness of the Campbell Collaboration that was founded in 2000 on similar lines to the Cochrane Collaboration but with a focus on systematic reviews on social interventions in fields such as education, criminal justice, and social welfare (Petrosino, 2013).…”

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Systematic Reviews: A Social Work Perspective

Crisp

2015

Australian Social Work

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Systematic reviews are gaining prominence and recognition as being an important methodological approach to dealing with ever growing amounts of research data, and recent years have seen the development of guidelines for both the conduct and reporting of systematic reviews. Initially systematic reviews came to prominence as a method for synthesising data emerging from Randomised Control Trials (RCTs) but increasingly the term "systematic review" is being used in regards to reviews of studies of a wide range of research designs. However, among Australian social workers, utilisation and conduct of systematic reviews has been limited. This paper will explore the question of what a systematic review is, introduce some of the key issues in undertaking such a review, and explore the implications of the emergence of systematic reviews from a social work perspective.

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Kinship care for the safety, permanency, and well-being of children removed from the home for maltreatment

Abstract: This review supports the practice of treating kinship care as a viable out-of-home placement option for children removed from the home for maltreatment. However, this conclusion is tempered by the pronounced methodological and design weaknesses of the included studies.

Cited by 75 publications

References 248 publications

Systematic Review of Kinship Care Effects on Safety, Permanency, and Well-Being Outcomes

Systematic Review of Kinship Care Effects on Safety, Permanency, and Well-Being Outcomes

An investigation of the needs of grandparents who are raising grandchildren

Systematic Reviews: A Social Work Perspective

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