Sibling Foster Care, Placement Stability, and Well-Being: A Theoretical and Conceptual Framework

Waid, Jeffrey

doi:10.1080/10522158.2014.885474

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“…Depression in particular varies among pre‐adolescent and adolescent youth; from late childhood to early adolescence there is a significant increase in depressive symptoms for young people generally (Verboom et al, 2014). Mental health challenges including depression are even more commonplace among youth in foster care given previous maltreatment and compounding risk factors such as poverty, parental substance abuse, exposure to domestic violence, and foster home placement instability (Courtney et al, 2004; Kohl et al, 2005; Smith & Marsh, 2002; Waid, 2014). Given the high prevalence of mental health challenges among youth in foster care, it is important to account for mental health status when understanding educational outcomes among youth in foster care.…”

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Educational resilience among youth in foster care

Kothari

Godlewski

Lipscomb

et al. 2021

Psychology in the Schools

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Youth in foster care can experience educational success. Yet, studies have tended to focus on their educational challenges and achievement gaps. Compared to their counterparts, youth in foster care lag behind on many academic outcomes. Research is needed to understand the academic and nonacademic indicators of educational resilience (i.e., the increased likelihood of school success despite adverse conditions) among youth in foster care. This prospective study expands the existing literature by examining key individual and contextual factors associated with educationally resilient outcomes among school‐aged youth in foster care, with a particular focus on two malleable protective factors—school engagement and quality youth–foster caregiver relationships. Academic proficiency benchmarks reported by state administrative data were used to operationalize three educationally resilient outcomes (i.e., math, reading, and attendance). Logistic regressions with robust standard errors were then estimated to determine which individual and contextual factors best predicted each educationally resilient outcome. Intersectionality was also explored. Results revealed that youth's lived experience of educational resilience varies by the intersection of their personal identities. In addition, two malleable protective factors (school engagement and quality youth–foster caregiver relationships) also predicted specific educationally resilient outcomes. Implications for research and practice in schools and child welfare agencies are discussed.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Educational resilience among youth in foster care

Kothari

Godlewski

Lipscomb

et al. 2021

Psychology in the Schools

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“…Separation can have a lifelong impact removing potential support in adulthood and leave a profound sense of loss and poorer mental health, especially for separated girls (Tarren-Sweeney & Hazell, 2005). However, the psychosocial benefits of sibling placements lack a strong research base given the methodological limitations of current studies (Tarren-Sweeney & Hazell, 2005;Waid, 2014).…”

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Sibling Relationships in Adoptive Families That Disrupted or Were in Crisis

Selwyn

2018

Research on Social Work Practice

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The study investigated whether sibling relationships influenced the outcomes of a sample of adoptive placements in England and Wales that had broken down post order or were in crisis. Method: The study used secondary analysis drawing on in-depth interviews with 41 families who had experienced an adoption disruption and 42 families who described the adoptive placement as being in crisis in England and in Wales. The families contained 214 adopted and birth children. Results: Siblings placed together were statistically more likely to disrupt in comparison with sequential placements. Only 18 of the 83 families described normal sibling relationships. Placements intended to maintain sibling relationships had not done so. Conclusion: Assessments need to pay more attention to sibling dynamics. Children's relationships might be better supported by separate placements with planned contact. Interventions are needed to improve sibling relationships.

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“…The development of such methodologies has been of interest to researchers beginning with the first large-scale longitudinal studies documenting placement instability and foster care drift (Fanshel & Shinn, 1978). Research has described the child, caregiver/family, and systemic factors associated with placement instability (James, 2004; Koh, Rolock, Cross, & Eblen-Manning, 2014; Rock, Michelson, Thomson, & Day, 2015; Waid, 2014). Studies have also described the consequences of placement disruption for youth in foster care (for reviews of this literature, see Cross, Koh, Rolock, & Ehlen-Manning, 2013; Pritchett, Gillberg, & Minnis, 2013; Rock, Michelson, Thomson, & Day, 2015).…”

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Visualizing and describing foster care placement pathways

McBeath

Godlewski

Waid

et al. 2018

Journal of Public Child Welfare

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This paper introduces a flowchart-based methodology for describing the movement of foster youth in and out of placements of differing types and durations. This longitudinal methodology is designed to be sufficiently simple to appeal to policymakers and administrators seeking to chart the movement of groups of youth over time and the sequencing of their placements, and sufficiently descriptive to be of use to researchers seeking to predict the placement trajectories of subgroups of foster youth. The paper provides an example of the use of the method drawing upon state administrative data from a large study of preadolescent and adolescent youth in foster care situated in Oregon. Implications for the application of the methodology to different issues of interest to researchers, policymakers, and administrators are discussed.

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Sibling Foster Care, Placement Stability, and Well-Being: A Theoretical and Conceptual Framework

Cited by 29 publications

References 50 publications

Educational resilience among youth in foster care

Educational resilience among youth in foster care

Sibling Relationships in Adoptive Families That Disrupted or Were in Crisis

Visualizing and describing foster care placement pathways

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