Foster care studies are popular in child welfare research and have been widely conducted in the West.However, there is no common understanding on the best practices in designing and conducting a foster care research.This paper discusses the common methodological issues found in the current foster ...
All rights reserved $6.00 + .@I Research on Kinship Foster Care: What Do We Know? Where Do We Go From Here? Jill Duerr Bet-rick Richard P. Barth University of California, Berkeley In recent years, kinship care has gained increasing notice from practi- tioners, policy makers and ...
Research questions 2 and 3. There was some indication that this difference between them and the general population may not be very pronounced in children under the age of 2. Children over the age of 30 months, on the other hand, were likely to have complex and overlapping problems.Research ...
Little research has systematically examined the transition process out of the foster care system for older youth, especially in states where youth can stay past age 18. This study uses mixed-methods data from 404 youth from Missouri, interviewed nine times between ages 17 and 19 to explore five...
A quality of life studies perspective has guided the design and implementation of research on kinship care as a placement resource within the child protection system in Catalonia (Spain). This research was carried out gathering the points of view of the three main stakeholders: kinship caregivers,...
The above research questions are addressed in this study by focusing on one campus-based program that was created when, Western Michigan University, a large Midwestern university responded to the challenge of researching, learning, and serving students from foster care through the establishment of its...
Research on Timing of Foster Care OutcomesShenyang Guo
How do placements in kinship care compare with those in non‐kin foster care: placement patterns, progress and outcomes? The research reported in this paper was based on case file reviews of 270 children, half in kin placements and half in stranger foster care, and on ... E Farmer - 《...
Longitudinal research on youth in foster care is important, but often challenging to accomplish. To assist the field, a thorough description of the development of the SPARK (Studying Pathways to Adjustment and Resilience in Kids) project, a longitudinal research project on the mechanisms of resilienc...
2011, Child and Youth Care Forum Outcomes of group care for youth: A review of comparative studies 2011, Research on Social Work Practice Psychological disturbances of war-traumatized children from different foster and family settings in Bosnia and Herzegovina ...