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Behavior problems, foster home integration, and evidence-based behavioral interventions: what predicts adoption of foster children? |
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Children and Youth Services Review, 34(5), May 2012, pp.891-899. |
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0190-7409 |
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A high prevalence of behaviour problems is found among foster children who have experienced abuse and neglect. Significant behaviour problems are likely to have a negative impact on foster children’s placement and permanency outcomes. Interventions providing behavioural parenting training and support to foster parents might therefore increase adoption by reducing the interference of behaviour problems and strengthening the child's foster home integration. The aim of this pilot study was to test the associations between behaviour problems, foster home integration, and adoption likelihood for foster children whose foster parents received an evidence-based foster parent intervention. The study participants were 15 foster parents who received a 16-week parenting intervention and 10 foster parents who received usual services. Interviews were conducted with foster parents and caseworkers at 4 time points over 12 months. The findings showed that externalising behaviour problems had a negative effect on both integration and adoption, and foster home integration had an independent positive effect on adoption. Internalising behaviour problems were not related to adoption or integration. However, the intervention did not have a direct effect on either foster home integration or adoption despite its positive effect on behaviour problems. The article concludes that integration is potentially critical to foster home adaptation and adoption chances. While behaviour problems appear to weaken foster home integration, integration is also an independent predictor of adoption likelihood. |
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adoption; behaviour problems; foster care; foster carers; foster children; longitudinal studies; outcomes; parental skills training; placement disruption; |
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www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/profile.asp?guid=e83ff0b8-16ef-4ed8-a591-b6840d8c10da |
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