Sentences with phrase «placement disruption rates»
Recent evaluations in England and in Maryland have shown positive results on decreasing placement disruption rates and child behavioral and emotional problems.
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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).
Reports of disruption rates in traditional foster care range from 38 % to 57 % during the first 12 to 18 months of placement (Berrick et al., 1998; Palmer, 1996; Staff & Fein, 1995; Stone & Stone, 1983), with percentages increasing with time spent in foster care.
Changes in placement or disruption rates are related to the length of the child's foster care stay, 55 the age of the foster child, and the functioning of the foster child (for example, mental health).56 The quality of the parent - child relationship and the caseworker - foster parent relationship also influences placement stability.
Differences in disruption rates by age of the child and placement history, reasons why disruption and dissolution occur, and disruption and dissolution trends are noted.
KEEP provides enhanced support and training to state foster and kinship parents to prevent placement disruptions, improve reunification rates, and reduce child behavioral and emotional problems.
Children of parents in the KEEP group were also found to have higher rates of reunification with biological or adoptive families and fewer placement disruptions than those in the control condition.
For example, in San Diego, the base rate for disruption in kin placements is about 9 % and 45 - 48 % from non-relative placements.
Outcomes of interest include foster care disruption rates, rates of reunification with biological parents and other successful long - term placements, changes in behavior and cognitive functioning, and success in school.
The baseline rates for disruption in kin and non-kin placements vary significantly.