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Author: Ian Sinclair Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers ISBN: 1843101734 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 274
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Based on exhaustive research, the authors discuss the primary concerns in foster placement planning. By monitoring and describing the individual characteristics of the child within their placement, we are able to discover what types of support are most beneficial.
Author: Ian Sinclair Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers ISBN: 1843101734 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 274
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Based on exhaustive research, the authors discuss the primary concerns in foster placement planning. By monitoring and describing the individual characteristics of the child within their placement, we are able to discover what types of support are most beneficial.
Author: Alyson Rees Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers ISBN: 085700865X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 234
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Andy Pithouse and Alyson Rees use original research to identify key ingredients needed to help create successful foster placements and help prevent placement breakdown. In this study the lives and activities of 10 foster families who provide lasting and effective care are examined. The families' everyday world of meanings, negotiations, activities, settings, rituals and relationships that help to create these successful placements, are explored. The authors identify the main components that, according to the carers and the children, contribute to acceptance, belonging and stability in the family. The book examines the emotional and practical work involved in caring, and explores how it is received and reciprocated by fostered young people. With important insights into child and carer perspectives on fostering, What Works in Foster Care is a source of invaluable information for foster carers, children's service professionals, and trainees and care staff more generally who may be engaged with children who are looked after.
Author: Elizabeth Fernandez Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers ISBN: 1849058121 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 322
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This volume compares international systems, trends and outcomes in foster care today. Each chapter concludes with a critical commentary by one of the contributors, bringing a cross-national perspective to the issues affecting children and young people in care. The book offers new ideas about how foster care could be delivered in order to become more effective. --
Author: Sarah Fathallah Publisher: Think of Us ISBN: 0578937891 Category : Young Adult Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 142
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Institutional placements in foster care are out-of-home, non-family placements where some foster youth are sent to live. Each year, of the hundreds of thousands of youth in foster care, over 43,000 live in institutional placements. These placements disproportionately impact Black youth, other youth of color, older youth, and pregnant and parenting teens. Due to calls to reckon with longstanding institutionalized racism, the spread of COVID-19 through institutions, concern over the use of forceful restraints, emerging research on trauma, and the recent death of 16 year-old Cornelius Fredericks in a Michigan group home, there is a growing body of research and a movement calling for the reduction or elimination of institutional placements in foster care. Missing from this conversation was a deep, nuanced understanding of the experiences and mental models of young people who have recently lived in these places. This study exists to fill that gap.
Author: Sarah A. Font Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 303041146X Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 114
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This brief examines the U.S. foster care system and seeks to explain why the foster care system functions as it does and how it can be improved to serve the best interest of children. It defines and evaluates key challenges that undermine child safety and well-being in the current foster care system. Chapters highlight the competing values and priorities of the system as well as the pros and cons for the use of foster care. In addition, chapters assess whether the performance objectives in which states are evaluated by the federal government are sufficient to achieve positive health and well-being outcomes for children who experience foster care. Finally, it offers recommendations for improving the system and maximizing positive outcomes. Topics featured in this brief include: Legal aspects of removal and placement of children in foster care. The effectiveness of prior efforts to reform foster care. The regulation and quality of foster homes. Support for youth aging out of the foster care system. Racial and ethnic disparities in the foster care system. Foster Care and the Best Interests of the Child is a must-have resource for policy makers and related professionals, graduate students, and researchers in child and school psychology, family studies, public health, social work, law/criminal justice, and sociology.
Author: Janet McDermott Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers ISBN: 0857009397 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 274
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Featuring a spectrum of families from diverse backgrounds, this book reveals the joys and challenges of adoptive and foster parenting. The authors outline how the experience of adopting and fostering has changed for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people over the years, major changes in policy, and what the research can tell us about LGBT parenting. They interview families involved at different stages of the fostering and adoption process, from those undergoing assessments through to the experienced foster carers and adopters who were interviewed for the first edition of this book 20 years previously. While the number of LGBT people adopting or fostering has increased since then, some of the very real challenges still endure - including social stigma, homophobia and discriminatory policies - and families share some of the strategies they have used to help to address them. This is an essential source of information and advice for same-sex couples and LGBT single parents, as well as social workers, social work educators, sociologists of personal life, fostering and adoption panel members.
Author: V. George Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317854098 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 264
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First published in 1998. This is Volume VIII of the fifteen in the Sociology of Gender and the Family series. This research was designed to explore primarily the relationship between theory and practice in foster care.
Author: Nina Oldfield Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429801297 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 223
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First published in 1997, this timely examination of allowances paid to foster carers demonstrates clear evidence that the nature of foster care is changing. The degree of difficulty in caring for the average child is greater than ever before making the tasks asked of carers more demanding and skilful. The fostering allowances were subject to five tests of adequacy. Evidence showed that allowances have maintained their value over time and were adequate to meet the normal costs of child rearing but not the extra or indirect costs of fostering. Moreover, a unique cross national study of payments uncovered that Britain has lower levels of allowance than more than half the 15 countries examined. This book contributes to the debate on the measurement of living standards. It uses budget standard methodology to estimate the cost of a child living a modest but adequate lifestyle in the 1990s.
Author: Helen Cosis Brown Publisher: Learning Matters ISBN: 1446297691 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 169
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Working with children in foster care is a demanding and rigorous aspect of social work practice. Difficult decisions in fast-moving and often complex situations have to be made, and for students and practitioners alike, there is a vast array of legislation, law and social policy to understand. This book is written to help social workers and social work students get to grips with the complexity of foster care. The child is placed at the heart of the text and there are substantial chapters on law, policy frameworks and the overreaching theoretical and research evidence to support good practice. There is also a strong focus on practical skills such as empathy and relationship-based practice. This is an essential text for experienced social workers or those currently in training.
Author: Gillian Schofield Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers ISBN: 1849050260 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 226
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Looks at the foster care experience of parents through interviews and accounts of famly life before their children were taken into care, the experiences of the court system, and the challenges of maintaining a relationship with their children.
Author: Ian Sinclair
Author: Ian Sinclair
Author: Alyson Rees
Author: Elizabeth Fernandez
Author: Sarah Fathallah
Author: Sarah A. Font
Author: Janet McDermott
Author: V. George
Author: Nina Oldfield
Author: Helen Cosis Brown
Author: Gillian Schofield