scholarly journals Pomoc i wsparcie dla rodzin zastępczych w środowisku lokalnym

2016 ◽  
pp. 397-414
Author(s):  
Magda Urbańska
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Foster Parents ◽  
Specialized Training ◽  
Foster Families ◽  
Orphaned Children ◽  
Natural Family ◽  
Family Foster Care ◽  
The City

A family is the basic envi­ronment of education and childcare. However, when parents are not able to fulfil care and educational functions, tasks of a natural family are performed by foster care, carried out among by fos­ter families. Admitting of the child to the own family is preceded by a process of qualifications and specialized training, organized for foster families by the or­ganizer of family foster care. But even the best theoretical training cannot pro­tect against a variety of behavioral prob­lems and care which foster parents en­counter, hence it becomes necessary to support and assistance the families who take the trouble to care for abandoned and orphaned children. The article pres­ents the measures implemented to sup­port foster families in the local commu­nity for the actions taken in 2012–2013 in the city of Rzeszów by the organizer of family foster care.

scholarly journals Foster Parents’ Parenting and the Social-Emotional Development and Adaptive Functioning of Children in Foster Care: A PRISMA-Guided Literature Review and Meta-Analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabrina Chodura ◽  
Arnold Lohaus ◽  
Tabea Symanzik ◽  
Nina Heinrichs ◽  
Kerstin Konrad
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Child Development ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Foster Parents ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Developmental Outcomes ◽  
Parenting Behavior ◽  
Foster Families ◽  
Children In Foster Care ◽  
Increased Risk

AbstractChildren in foster care (CFC) are at increased risk for negative developmental outcomes. Given the potential influence of foster parents’ parenting on the development of CFC, this literature review and meta-analysis provide an initial overview of how parenting factors in foster families relate to CFC’s developmental outcomes. We aimed to explore (1) whether foster parents’ parenting conceptualizations are related differently to various CFC developmental outcome variables and (2) how characteristics of foster parents and CFC moderate these associations. Following the recommendations of the PRISMA statement, we searched four databases in 2017 (with an update in May 2020). Forty-three primary studies were coded manually. The interrater agreement was 92.1%. Parenting variables were specified as parenting behavior, style, and goals and were distinguished further into functional and dysfunctional parenting. CFC development was divided into adaptive (including cognitive) development and maladaptive development. Meta-analyses could be performed for foster parenting behavior and developmental outcomes, as well as for functional parenting goals and maladaptive socioemotional outcomes in CFC. Associations between functional parenting behavior and adaptive child development were positive and negative for maladaptive child development, respectively. For dysfunctional, parenting effects were in the opposite direction. All effects were small to moderate. Similar results were found descriptively in the associations of parenting style and child developmental outcomes. We found similar effect sizes and directions of the associations between parenting behavior in foster families and the child’s developmental outcomes as those previously reported for biological families. These findings provide strong support for the significant role of parenting in foster families regarding children’s development in foster care.

scholarly journals Do Foster Parents and Care Workers Recognize the Needs of Youth in Family Foster Care with a History of Sexual Abuse?

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (7) ◽  
pp. 811-831 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Steenbakkers ◽  
Ingunn T. Ellingsen ◽  
Steffie van der Steen ◽  
Hans Grietens
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Foster Care ◽  
Foster Parents ◽  
Family Foster Care ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals Topical questions of the substitute family care in the Czech Republic with a special attention to the process of foster families preparation

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 03002
Author(s):  
Iva Junova ◽  
Gabriela Slaninova
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Foster Care ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Professional Preparation ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Foster Families ◽  
Natural Family ◽  
The Social

Authors deal with the substitute family care in the Czech Republic. Attention is concentrated on a conception of the substitute family care as a form of a children care in that children are raised by “substitute” parents in an ambience that is very similar to a natural family life. In the Czech Republic, the substitute family care is always preferred to an institutional upbringing. The aim of the article is to describe the system of the substitute family care in the Czech Republic and to introduce a foster care as one of the institutes of the substitute family care. Authors paid attention to a foster care and to a temporary foster care in the context of a professional preparation of foster families. The professionally led preparation in the Czech Republic is legally regulated by performing some law provisions of the social and legal children protection.

Family-Centered Practice with Foster-Parent Families

1996 ◽  
Vol 77 (9) ◽  
pp. 545-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Jean McFadden
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Foster Parents ◽  
Foster Parent ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Foster Families ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Family Style ◽  
Specialized Foster Care ◽  
Work Done ◽  
Family Centered

Foster parents face many stresses in their family life, whether they provide kinship care, general foster care, specialized foster care, or treatment family care. Critical issues include maintaining open boundaries while sustaining cohesion and integrity of the core family structure. Pressures from the agency, the community, the foster child, and his or her parents affect the way in which this family style functions. Focusing on the work done by family-centered practitioners with foster parents facing various types of developmental and situational crises, the author examines the responses of foster families to the multiple and chronic experiences of loss that they face. Guidelines for practitioners include placement issues, therapeutic issues, and knowledge of systems that clinicians need to work effectively with foster-parent families. Case materials illustrate the crises of dismemberment and demoralization as well as the crisis of accession.

scholarly journals CREATING NORMALCY: FOSTER CARE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES AND MEDICAL FRAGILITY IN GERMANY

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 132-151
Author(s):  
Friedegard Föltz
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Foster Parents ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Foster Families ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Tailored Approach ◽  
Depth Interviews

In the area of foster care concerning children and youth with special needs due to disability or medical fragility, there is a paucity of knowledge and research. In Germany, these groups in foster care who have high special needs are an invisible and neglected population at risk. These children and youth are mostly cared for in residential homes; however, some are living in foster families and benefit from a familial setting. The purpose of the study was to understand how foster parents manage their lives with a child or youth who has special needs, and how they meet the challenges that arise. The qualitative research design used the method of narrative inquiry through in-depth interviews, which were conducted in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt with 19 foster parents from 15 families. Within the framework of grounded theory, the author developed a theoretical structure of the strategies foster parents use for coping. Results showed that foster parents dealt with this new and often unpredictable situation by applying one of three patterns of strategies — action-, resource-, or reflection-oriented — based on their personal experiences and worldview. Understanding these behavioral patterns gives administrative and supportive entities like child welfare systems and agencies a unique and tailored approach to recruit, retain, train, and counsel foster families adequately, and to strengthen their well-being and their ability to perform well for themselves and their children and youth.

Taking Care Triple P for Foster Parents With Young Children in Foster Care: Results of a 1-Year Randomized Trial

2020 ◽  
pp. 088626052090919
Author(s):  
Ann-Katrin Job ◽  
Daniela Ehrenberg ◽  
Peter Hilpert ◽  
Vanessa Reindl ◽  
Arnold Lohaus ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Foster Parents ◽  
Challenging Behaviors ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Triple P ◽  
Group Training ◽  
Foster Families ◽  
Parent Group ◽  
Children In Foster Care

Young children with a history of maltreatment or neglect in foster families often confront their caregivers with particularly challenging behaviors. This may lead to more parenting stress, an increased risk for the child in foster care to experience further maltreatment, and placement disruptions. We conducted a randomized controlled trial to investigate the efficacy of a parent group training tailored to the special needs of foster families. We hypothesized significant short- and long-term improvements regarding foster parents’ parenting competencies, child mental health problems, and related outcomes. Eighty-one families with 87 children in foster care aged 2 to 7 years participated in the trial. For the intervention study, 44 randomly selected families (54%) were offered to participate in the parent group training. Intervention and control group families were reassessed three times over a period of 1 year. Contrary to our expectations, we found no advantages of the intervention group compared with the usual care control group on any outcome measure. Instead, we found some significant changes in both groups across time. Placement into foster care is associated with some favorable outcomes for children in foster care. Additional support for foster families beyond the services delivered in the youth welfare system to foster parents was not associated with more favorable outcomes. The present intervention is likely associated with a low risk of harm but also with a high likelihood of a lack of significant benefits for foster parents and their young children going beyond feeling satisfied about the delivered services. Participating foster families showed favorable baseline results on parenting measures which may have impeded intervention effects to unfold on these proximal variables.

scholarly journals Comparative Analysis of Post-orphanage Adaptation of Orphaned Children Deprived of Parental Care: 20 Years Later

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 25-41
Author(s):  
G.V. Semya
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Foster Parents ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Foster Families ◽  
Orphaned Children ◽  
Subjective Assessments ◽  
Quantitative Changes ◽  
Future Education

The article looks into the results of the comparative analysis of post-orphanage adaptation among the orphanages graduates of years 2001 (N=968) and 2021 (N=1792). Due to the active development of family-oriented forms of adoption of orphaned children, the year 2021 sample also included children graduates from foster families (N=1413). The study was conducted using the questionnaire from 2001 containing questions about major aspects of graduates' lives: life values and plans for the future, education, employment, family life, recreational activities, asocial behavior (with adjustments for the realities of today's legal system). Changes have been shown that occurred over 20 years in governmental policies toward orphan children and orphan graduates. Significant changes are observed in the graduates' subjective assessments of their own preparedness for independent living and of their psychological well-being. The comparative analysis revealed that only quantitative changes occurred in different aspects of their lives, while the list of the graduates' problems remained the same. Quite unexpectedly, it turned out that there are no significant differences for a number of adaptation parameters between graduates of organizations for orphaned children and those from substitute families of 2021. This can be explained by the fact that foster parents generally don't prepare their fostered children for independent living, whereas professionals of orphanage institutions support their ex-wards children until the latter turn 23.

scholarly journals System pieczy zastępczej w Wielkiej Brytanii a polskie rodziny zastępcze

2019 ◽  
pp. 245-256
Author(s):  
Karolina Walancik-Ryba
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Foster Parents ◽  
National Standards ◽  
Foster Family ◽  
Foster Care System ◽  
Foster Families ◽  
British System ◽  
Care System

The article “Foster care system in Great Britain and Polish foster families” is devoted to the British system of foster care, which allows to create a foster family by Polish citizens. The article discusses the main principles on which the foster care and its forms are based. National standards and requirements for candidates to foster families were presented as well as issues related to the implementation of foster care, including these regarding support for foster parents and housing or financial requirements.

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