Placement stability and permanency are key goals for children in foster and adoptive care. This study is a systematic review of the scholarly literature to better understand caregiver-related factors (e.g., characteristics, proficiencies) that contribute to permanency and placement stability, in order...
We wish to thank four unknown reviewers and Professor Mary McPherson of Arizona State University, Tempe for their scholarly counsel in behalf of this work; also, the Arizona chapter of the National Action for Foster Children for their support. Copyright © 1981 Published by Elsevier Ltd. About...
A child in Virginia was placed in foster care in October of 2004 after the child's mother, who was not taking any anti-psychotic medication at the time, suffered a "psychotic breakdown," had to be hospitalized, and was unable to care for the child. The local social services agency found...
The problem is you can no longer take it on faith the person one the other end of the story is trustworthy and creditable and you have no chance to validate this ahead of time. When the see the media messing up on simple facts I know I can not trust them on the impor...
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A comprehensive search was conducted that included four key sources: scholarly databases, hand-searches of reference lists, Google Scholar, and personal communications with key foster care stakeholders from North America, South America, Europe, and Australia. All empirical studies within samples that ...