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De, Lona Martin Timothy. "Professionalising foster care." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.429779.
Full textIrizarry-Fonseca, Lesley Odette. "Foster care parents' perceptions of their foster care youth's self-efficacy beliefs." Diss., University of Iowa, 2011. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2718.
Full textCooper, Anna Katherine. "Foster carers' perceptions of planned respite care and the perceived psychosocial effects for foster children." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Health Sciences, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9602.
Full textLittle, Brittany. "Supporting LGBTQ youth in the foster care system| A grant proposal to develop a curriculum for foster care parents and foster care workers." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1527724.
Full textThe purpose ofthis grant proposal is to fund the development of a curriculum to support the needs and strengths of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/ questioning (LGBTQ) foster youth, identify a host agency and select a potential funding source. The proposal ultimately targets a host organization that can foster the development of the curriculum and effectively reach the secondary population which includes the foster care agencies. These agencies will ultimately train the foster care workers, foster care parents and other applicable stakeholders. A literature review details the history of LGBTQ youth in foster care, their risks and current interventions to support this population. A number of potential funding sources are identified, with the David Bohnette Foundation selected to approach. The proposal includes a needs assessment, implementation method, staffing, evaluation and budget narrative.
Brofferio, Aja. "Reforming Foster Care in California." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/863.
Full textMitchell, Nathaniel. "Perceptions of Failed Foster Care." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6246.
Full textLopez, Linda Ann. "Foster Care Workers' Roles in Developing Resiliency in Foster Children." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7403.
Full textCarriere-Laboucane, Jeannine. ""Kinship care: A community alternative to foster care"." School of Native Human Services, 1997. http://142.51.24.159/dspace/handle/10219/470.
Full textTime, Lumka. "The effect of foster care placement on children and foster families." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1021151.
Full textHemmings, Laura Toni. "Adolescents in foster care : exploring their involvement in foster placement success." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/1743/.
Full textCopenhaguen, Mario David. "Impact of foster care on Hispanic/Latino foster mothers' marital relationship." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2283.
Full textScott, Wendy. "An exploratory descriptive study of foster care and non-foster care adolescents' perceptions on self-esteem." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2002. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/2044.
Full textSong, Minkyoung. "Termination of parental rights and adoption in foster care a foster care decision on child maltreatment." Saarbrücken VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2007. http://d-nb.info/985771186/04.
Full textOldfield, Georgina F. "The adequacy of foster care allowances." Thesis, University of York, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.241079.
Full textUpdike, Meghan. "Health Care for Hawaiian Foster Children." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/265365.
Full textMorris, Ashley L., Andrew Battista, Dilshod Achilov, and Rebecca L. Keeler. "Influences on Foster Care Reentry Rate." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/227.
Full textKritzberger, Karen, and Dawn Peria. "Attachment of children in foster care." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/973.
Full textEnglebert, Nicole. "Predictors of Post Foster Care Functioning: Assessing Emotional Intelligence in Foster Alumni." NSUWorks, 2014. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/cps_stuetd/93.
Full textBoyd, Odette. "Medication Adherence for Foster Children from the Perspective of Foster Care Providers." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7122.
Full textDiaz, Rodrigo. "The Experience of Foster Parents: What Keeps Foster Parents Motivated to Foster Long Term?" Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1503013699534605.
Full textAbelson, Jolene. "Examining independent living skills in foster care youth." Online version, 2009. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2009/2009abelsonj.pdf.
Full textMiller, Roselynn E. "The Least of these a church-based curriculum designed to promote awareness, education and recruitment for foster care families /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.
Full textHarris, Emily. "Forming attachments in adoption and foster care." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2016. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/88059/.
Full textMunly, Kelly A. "Understanding Adult Foster Care Through Provider Experiences." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/73578.
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Bozin, Marie A. "Delinquency, Foster Care Placement, Attachment, and Race." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1208802867.
Full textPreston, Randall. "Educating Youth in Foster Care: Educators’ Perspectives." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2010. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/186.
Full textEspinoza, Rosalba, and Sarah Lopez Ramirez. "The attachment of children in foster care." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2115.
Full textAndrade, Laura, and Daniela A. Salinas. "Extended Foster Care: The General Population's Perspective." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/182.
Full textArteaga, Elisa. "Permanency Planning for Youth in Foster Care." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/692.
Full textLee-Jones, Lora. "Foster care and social work services from the perspective of the foster child." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3825.
Full textValdez, Karla. "FOSTER PARENT SATISFACTION WITH THE FOSTER CARE SYSTEM AND THEIR INTENTIONS TO DECERTIFICATION." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/813.
Full textSimula, Kelebogile. "Developing an evidence-based foster mother screening tool for cluster foster care in the Western Cape, South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23712.
Full textPeck, Irja Carol. "Elementary school teachers' perceptions of the foster care system and the children in its care : a project based upon an independent investigation /." View online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10090/5920.
Full textHankins, Jamila T. "A study of the impact foster care policies have on permanency outcomes for children in Georgia's private foster care." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2012. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/636.
Full textManthosi, Frans Lesetja. "Kinship foster care – perceptions and experiences of grandparents regarding fostering their teenage offspring." University of the Western Cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7977.
Full textKinship foster care in South Africa, whereby orphaned and vulnerable children (OVC) are being cared for by their biological relatives, is increasing. The significant increase in kinship foster care has a strong correlation to the high rates of HIV/AIDS-related deaths, resulting in a high prevalence of children who are vulnerable and orphaned. Social workers are mandated to seek alternative care placements for such OVC, prioritising kinship care as opposed to foster care with non-biological families. However, such kinship foster care, in which children are likely to be placed in the care of their grandparents, as common practice in South Africa, is not without challenges relating to family dynamics, especially when foster children become teenagers.
Alatorre, Erika Yolanda, and Angelica Lemus. "Foster caregivers' opinions on the causes of multiple placements among foster children." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2915.
Full textRajan, Singhi. "Factors that guide toward the emancipation of foster care youth." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3200.
Full textLepierrot, Pauline. "Silent Voices - Attachment Formation in Twelve Foster-Reared Mothers and Their Children." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5019.
Full textLamswood, Sarah Louise. "Foster placement breakdown : what can we learn from foster carers' stories and how successful is Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care." Thesis, University of Hull, 2015. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:13232.
Full textSilvestrini, Mary, and Erika Rosa Volz. "Foster parent retention: A study of the Orange County Social Services Foster Care Program." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1063.
Full textHuizar, Cynthia, and Judy Andrea Lawrence. "FORMER FOSTER YOUTH PERSPECTIVES ON STRENGTHS AND NEEDED SERVICES OF THE FOSTER CARE SYSTEM." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/651.
Full textChrist, Kaaren R. "Children with problematic sexual behaviour in long term foster care : a review of attachment difficulties within care giving relationships and placement instability." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99560.
Full textThese studies were chosen for their attention to the middle age child in foster care who was demonstrating problematic sexual behaviour. Due to the lack of attachment studies on fostered middle age children, two infant studies were included with the rationale that middle age children and foster parents engage in a similar attachment process and infant studies would provide direction and context for future studies with older children. In the area of childhood sexuality, clinical samples were also included as they contained large numbers of children who had experienced sexual abuse or who had contact with child protection agencies even if they did not reside in foster care.
Studies were examined along dimensions of sample, methods and findings. The results of this inquiry are then discussed, weaving together the three areas of study to answer two research questions: Is there a relationship between problematic childhood sexual behaviour and the development of a successful attachment relationship with a foster parent? And secondly, is there a particular foster parent attachment profile that promotes attachment security with children who are in care?
Studies reviewed support the hypothesis that problematic childhood sexual behaviour presents challenges to foster parents significant enough to seriously impair the development of a secure attachment and that the foster parent's attachment state of mind will be an important factor in success. Results of the analysis of these questions contribute to an emerging hypothesis that the human sexual system may be intricately woven together with the attachment system, making an attachment analysis of problematic sexual behaviour in children particular relevant. A concluding discussion examines clinical issues which may be targets of intervention and the necessity of future research in this area is proposed.
Lau, Hang-chi Frederick. "Working with parents having children in foster care /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13744586.
Full textGardner, Joey. "Understanding Social Workers' Knowledge of Foster Care Drift." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5706.
Full textYang, Dong. "Destination After Entering Foster Care: Road Toward Stability." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/math_theses/120.
Full textLau, Hang-chi Frederick, and 劉恆志. "Working with parents having children in foster care." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1993. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31249462.
Full textSellick, Clive. "Towards a mixed economy of foster care provision." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.436509.
Full textDe, Jager Este. "Foster care of AIDS orphans : social workers' perspectives." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/6500.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: The goal of this study is to shed some light on the needs of children orphaned by AIDS as well as on the training and support that their foster parents will need, in order to provide guidelines for equipping foster parents to care for AIDS orphans. The motivation for this study was the rapid spread of HIV/AIDS in the South Africa and the one million South African AIDS orphans left in its wake. Most of these children end up in substitute homes, and many of them in foster care. Researchers agree that AIDS orphans have special needs because of the circumstances surrounding their parents’ death. Foster parents will therefore need to be prepared to meet these needs. It is an internationally documented fact that foster parents have a need for training and support to meet the demands of foster care, and having an AIDS orphan as a foster child will increase, and focus this need. The study was also motivated by the current shortages and challenges in the foster care system in South Africa which makes it difficult for social workers to effectively train and support foster parents, and aims to contribute towards overcoming some of these problems so that foster parents can be properly prepared to see to the well-being of the AIDS orphans in their care. The research was done based on a literature study, which firstly made use of the Ecological Systems Perspective to explore the effects of parental death by AIDS on their children. Subsequently an overview of foster care within the South African context is given, with emphasis on foster care in general, foster care within the challenging South African context and foster care of AIDS orphans. The last part of the literature review discusses foster parent cell groups as a means of training and supporting the foster parents of AIDS orphans for the parenting process. The empirical investigation of the study investigated to what extent, and in what ways, social workers are training and supporting foster parents to care for AIDS orphans. This investigation confirmed some of the findings of the literature study, namely that AIDS orphans have needs that differ from those of other foster children and that social workers are too overburdened to be able to give the foster parents of these orphans the needed training and support. In light of the findings derived from the literature study and empirical research, conclusions and recommendations are made concerning the phenomena under investigation. The recommendations focus on guidelines that can be used by social workers to train and support the foster parents of AIDS orphans. The recommendations centre on the utilisation of resource-friendly methods to train and support foster parents; bringing structure into the foster care process and on social workers having to use research for guidance.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doel van hierdie studie is om lig te werp op die behoeftes van kinders wat deur VIGS wees gelaat is, sowel as op die opleiding en ondersteuning wat hul pleegouers nodig het, ten einde riglyne te verskaf vir die toerus van pleegouers om na VIGS-weeskinders om te sien. Die studie is gemotiveer deur die vinnige verspreiding van MIV/VIGS in Suid- Afrika en die een miljoen VIGS-weeskinders wat agtergelaat is. Die meeste van hierdie kinders word in plaasvervangende huise ingeneem, waarvan baie pleegsorgplasings is. Navorsers stem saam dat VIGS-weeskinders spesiale behoeftes het as gevolg van die omstandighede wat met hul ouers se dood gepaard gaan. Pleegouers sal dus voorberei moet word om in hierdie behoeftes te voorsien. Internasionale studies bewys dat pleegouers self ‘n behoefte aan opleiding en ondersteuning het om aan die vereistes van pleegsorg te voldoen. Hierdie behoefte verdiep en word meer gefokus vir ‘n pleegouer wat ‘n VIGS-weeskind in pleegsorg neem. Die studie is ook gemotiveer deur die huidige tekortkominge en uitdagings inherent aan die pleegsorgstelsel in Suid-Afrika wat dit vir maatskaplike werkers moeilik maak om pleegouers genoegsaam op te lei en te ondersteun. Die studie het dus ten doel gehad om ‘n bydrae te lewer tot die oorkoming van sommige van hierdie probleme sodat pleegouers voorbereid kan wees om na die welsyn van hierdie weeskinders in hulle sorg om te sien. Die navorsing is gebaseer op ‘n verreikende literatuurstudie. Die literatuurstudie het eerstens gefokus op die gebruik van die Ekologiese Sisteemperspektief om die effek van ouers se afsterwe weens MIV/VIGS op kinders te ondersoek. Daarna is ‘n oorsig gegee van pleegsorg binne die Suid-Afrikaanse konteks. Klem is geplaas op pleegsorg in die algemeen, pleegsorg binne die uitdagende Suid-Afrikaanse konteks, en pleegsorg spesifiek met VIGS-weeskinders. Die laaste deel van die literatuuroorsig bespreek die moontlikheid om pleegouer-selgroepe te benut om pleegouers die nodige opleiding en ondersteuning te gee vir die proses van ouerskap. Die empiriese studie ondersoek ook in watter mate en op watter manier, maatskaplike werkers besig is om die pleegouers van VIGS-weeskinders op te lei en te ondersteun. Hierdie ondersoek bevestig sommige van die bevindinge van die literatuurstudie; spesifiek dat VIGS-weeskinders unieke behoeftes het en dat maatskaplike werkers te oorlaai is om die pleegouers van hierdie weeskinders die nodige opleiding en ondersteuning te bied. In die lig van die bevindinge van die literatuurstudie en empiriese navorsing is gevolgtrekkings en aanbevelings gemaak. Die aanbevelings het primêr gepoog om riglyne te verskaf wat deur maatskaplike werkers gebruik kan word om pleegouers op te lei en te ondersteun. Die aanbevelings het gesentreer rondom die gebruik van hulpbronvriendelike maniere om pleegouers op te lei en te ondersteun; die strukturering van die pleegsorgproses en die noodsaaklikheid vir maatskaplike werkers om daadwerklik van navorsing gebruik te maak vir leiding.
Bottone, Margaret. "Efficacy of Foster Care in the United States." Thesis, Southern Connecticut State University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10809623.
Full textFoster care efficacy in the United States is examined in an analytical review of the literature. The question researched was whether or not the foster care placement system in the United States is conducive to the developmental needs of children with high risk factors. Participants included populations of children in foster care, foster parents, and children who had matured out of foster care, throughout the United States. The relating topics of the data analysis within the literature review are: developmental theory, stability, outcomes, continuing education, and foster parent training. Research suggests that many children in foster care, or children who are entering foster care settings, are diagnosed with a psychiatric illness. Support and emotional stability within a foster home for children was shown to have a significant correlation as to if there would be positive future outcomes. The KEEP program, (Keeping Foster Parents Trained and Supported), was found to be effective in correlation with not how often it is used, but with how well the caregiver understands how to implement the intervention. Further research into the impact of continuing training of foster parents after initial licensing, and the impact foster homes lacking in foster parent support pertaining to schoolwork, extracurricular activities and long-term educational goals , is suggested.
Davis, Kelly. "Perspectives of Professionals on Treatment Foster Care Success." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1473246208184445.
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