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Systematic review of kinship care effects on safety, permanency, and well-being outcomes
- Authors:
- WINOKUR Marc A., HOLTAN Amy, BATCHELDER Keri E.
- Journal article citation:
- Research on Social Work Practice, 28(1), 2018, pp.19-32.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Objective: Children in out-of-home placements typically display more educational, behavioural, 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 behavioural 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. (Edited publisher abstract)
Kinship care for the safety, permanency, and well-being of children removed from the home for maltreatment: a systematic review
- Authors:
- WINOKUR Marc, HOLTAN Amy, BATCHELDER Keri E.
- Journal article citation:
- Campbell Systematic Reviews, 10(1), 2014, pp.1-292.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This systematic review evaluates 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. Searches were carried out on ten electronic databases and hand searching of relevant social work journals and reference lists were carried out. The review retrieved 102 studies with 666,615 children that met methodological standards. The results suggest that children in kinship foster care experience fewer behavioural problems, fewer mental health problems, and less placement disruption than do children in non-kinship care. As regards permanency, there was no difference on reunification rates, although children in non-kinship care were more likely to be adopted, while children in kinship foster care were more likely to be in guardianship. Lastly, children in non-kinship foster care were more likely to utilise mental health services. The major limitation of this systematic review is that the quality of research on kinship care is weakened by the poor methods of the included studies Implications for practice and future research are discussed. (Edited publisher abstract)