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Placement stability in the context of child development. |
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Children and Youth Services Review, 34(7), July 2012, pp.1251-1258. |
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0190-7409 |
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Placement stability is important for the social, emotional and educational development of foster children. Despite this, some foster children experience a high number of placements. The purpose of this study was to examine caregiver and child characteristics, and the caregiver-child relationship, as potential contributors to placement stability. A secondary data analysis was conducted of the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-being (NSCAW, long term foster care general sample) for a sample of 436 children under the age of 11 years who were placed in foster or kinship care during Waves 1 and Wave 3. Logistic regression was performed to predict the odds of achieving placement stability. Due to differences across development, the sample was divided into 2 groups: early childhood (aged 1-5 years) and middle childhood (aged 6-10 years). As expected, in the early childhood group more caregiver than child characteristics affected placement stability. In the middle childhood group it was expected that more child than caregiver characteristics would predict placement stability, however, only child problem behaviours and caregiver experience and age affected placement stability. Marital status, caregiver education, and income did not affect placement stability. Implications for social work research and practice are discussed. |
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child development; children; foster care; foster carers; parent-child relations; placement disruption; pre-school children; |
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www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/profile.asp?guid=bf6e8e2f-3f13-4cc4-99d0-8d554f702be2 |
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