Out-of-home careAttachment disordersAssessment Checklist for ChildrenPopulation and clinical surveys of the mental health of children in foster, kinship and residential care have failed to account for a range of problems manifested by such children, largely because measurement has been restricted to ...
For youths that cannot remain in the family home, but do not require a high security setting,Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care(MTFC) can be used to deliver services while the youth is placed with specially trained and supported foster parents (Chamberlain, 2003). While the youth is in fost...
Foster care is a system in which children, youth, and young adults are temporarily placed outside of their birth family’s home. Placements may be with a family relative or a certified foster parent, in a group home setting or in a residential program. The state maintains oversight of this...
Furthermore, the youths in this study had elevated scores relative to general population norms on only a few TRF problem behavior scales. A sub-sample (N = 122) with foster parent assessments on the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL: Achenbach, 1991) permitted comparison of perceptions of youth ...
Newspaper articles, TV shows and books are filled with horror stories of children placed in foster care. A new study bucks that trend by showing out-of-home placements can improve the emotional health of some youths who have been maltreated by a parent. ...
Children Placed in Long-Term Foster Care: An Intake Profile Using the Child Behavior Checklist/4-18 Foster-care programs are beginning to use standardized assessment methods consistently as part of program and case planning, as well as for documenting the... G Armsden,PJ Pecora,VH Payne,... ...
(e.g., Child Behavior Checklist), case file analyses and interviews with people involved in foster care were employed. Most articles did not conceptualize or elaborate on the term needs (84%), but some provided an operational definition (e.g., scores on a questionnaire), defined children ...
(2001) found that kinship foster parents reported significant lower scores on the composite scales internalizing, externalizing, and total problems of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL; Achenbach, 1991a) compared to non-kinship foster parents. Landsverk, Ganger, Newton, and Johanson (1996) did not...
Psychosocial screening and monitoring for children in foster care: Psychometric properties of the Brief Assessment Checklist in a Dutch population study 2018, Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in Preschool Children in Foster Care: The Influence of Placement and Foster Fa...
(wherethe physical residence of the child changed) andused the Child Behavior Checklist to measure base-line, 18-month, and 36-month behavioral and emo-tional problems. The cross-lag design enabled themto look at the relation between behavior at thesepoints in time and in relation to ...