When carers end foster placements: exploring foster carers’ experience of adolescent foster placement breakdown

The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic affect all groups in society. People with intellectual disability (ID) are especially vulnerable to the physical, mental and social effects of the pandemic. Cognitive impairments can limit understanding of information to protect them relying on carers to be vigilant on their behalf during quarantine. Restrictions on usual activities are likely to induce mental stress especially among those who are autistic leading to an escalation in challenging behaviours, risk of placement breakdown and increased the use of psychotropic medication. People with ID are vulnerable to exploitation by others where the usual community supports no longer function to protect them. In future pandemics, it is important that lessons are learned from the impacts COVID-19 have on people with ID. Collecting the evidence through a rigorous approach should help to empower people with ID and their carers to face future outbreaks of infectious diseases.

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Carer Factors Associated with Foster-Placement Success and Breakdown

The British Journal of Social Work ◽

10.1093/bjsw/bcy059 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 49 (2) ◽

pp. 503-522 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Leonie Miller ◽

Melanie Randle ◽

Sara Dolnicar

Keyword(s):

Factors Associated ◽

Placement Success ◽

Foster Placement

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Advancing prediction of foster placement disruption using Brief Behavioral Screening

Child Abuse & Neglect ◽

10.1016/j.chiabu.2010.07.003 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 34 (12) ◽

pp. 917-926 ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Author(s):

Michael S. Hurlburt ◽

Patricia Chamberlain ◽

David DeGarmo ◽

Jinjin Zhang ◽

Joe M. Price

Keyword(s):

Behavioral Screening ◽

Placement Disruption ◽

Foster Placement

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Trauma, Abuse and Foster Placement and the Development of ADHD

Journal of Child and Adolescent Behaviour ◽

10.4172/jcalb.1000137 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 02 (03) ◽

Author(s):

Muhammad Puri ◽

Faisal Islam

Keyword(s):

Foster Placement

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A STUDY OF CHILDREN WITH MONGOLISM REARED IN THE HOME COMPARED TO THOSE REARED AWAY FROM THE HOME

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.25.4.678 ◽

1960 ◽

Vol 25 (4) ◽

pp. 678-685 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Siegried A. Centerwall ◽

Willard R. Centerwall

Keyword(s):

Statistical Analysis ◽

State Hospital ◽

Intelligence Quotient ◽

Mental Development ◽

Average Intelligence ◽

The Social ◽

Hospital Population ◽

Foster Placement

A comparison was made of the physical and mental development of children with mongolism who were put into foster placement very soon after birth (Group P) with similar children who were reared in their own homes until 2½years of age or older (Group H). All of these children at the time of study had been patients at a state hospital for several years. The two groups (consisting of 32 children each) were matched as to present age but were otherwise chosen in a random way from the hospital population. The children of Group H showed significantly better nutrition and growth and walked at a much earlier age. The average Intelligence Quotient of Group P at an average age of 7 years was 16 while that of Group H at the same age was 23. The Social Quotients at the same time were 24 for Group P and 32 for Group H. A statistical analysis of these differences show them to be highly significant. It might be said that the children in Group P function generally within the severely retarded range whereas those in Group H are within the moderately retarded or trainable range.

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