The current chapter provides an overview of the research into foster children's mental health, including misdiagnosis and diagnostic dilemmas, and the effect of foster care and
placement disruption on behaviour problems.
This study discusses the effects of
placement disruptions on foster children.
Not exact matches
Could meditation make a difference to those foster or adoptive families who are
on the brink of
placement disruption, who are about to conclude they can simply not make it through another day?
Risk factors associated with
placement disruption Research
on individual child factors that increase risk for
placement disruption shows that increased age and the presence and severity of behavioral and emotional problems are significantly related to higher rates of
placement disruption (Pardeck, 1984; Pardeck, Murphy & Fitzwater, 1985).
placement stability Ensuring that children remain in stable out - of - home care, avoiding
disruption, removal, and repeated
placements that have harmful effects
on child development and well - being.
adoption service (s)(in intercountry adoption) The six major services provided by adoption service providers: (1) Identifying a child for adoption and arranging an adoption; (2) Securing the necessary consent to termination of parental rights and to adoption; (3) Performing a background study
on a child or a home study
on a prospective adoptive parent (s), and reporting
on such a study; (4) Making nonjudicial determinations of the best interests of a child and the appropriateness of an adoptive
placement for the child; (5) Monitoring a case after a child has been placed with prospective adoptive parent (s) until final adoption; or (6) When necessary because of a
disruption before final adoption, assuming custody and providing (including facilitating the provision of) child care or any other social service pending an alternative
placement.
Intervention effects
on health - risking sexual behavior among foster care girls: The role of
placement disruption and substance use.
Lisa also collaborated
on a trial evaluating the dissemination of the KEEP foster parent training group to prevent
placement disruptions in foster children.
Research by Jim Wade
on children made subject to a Special Guardianship Order (SGOs), published by DfE in 2014, found that the introduction of SGOs had been well received by practitioners who saw it as an important pathway to permanence for some children, and that the risk of
disruption of SGO
placements was low.
Recent evaluations in England and in Maryland have shown positive results
on decreasing
placement disruption rates and child behavioral and emotional problems.