The Acquisition of Informed Consent for Foster Children's Research Participation

2005 ◽  
Vol 86 (4) ◽  
pp. 511-519 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen B. Bogolub
Keyword(s):  
Informed Consent ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Future Study ◽  
Foster Parents ◽  
Research Participation ◽  
Out Of Home Care ◽  
Prior Literature ◽  
Complex Relationships

In a public child welfare agency, 6 respondents were recruited for a pilot study about foster children's transitions from birth homes to out-of-home care. During recruitment, knowledge was gained about the acquisition of informed consent for foster children's research participation, a topic about which there is remarkably little prior literature. In addition to being a necessity for research enactment, consent acquisition is a multifaceted process involving complex relationships with colleagues, potential respondents, and their birth and foster parents. Four detailed vignettes each illustrate a consent issue. With reference to each vignette, suggestions are made for researchers' sensitive, ethical, planful consent acquisition. Implications for agency-based professionals are offered, as are ideas for future study of consent acquisition.

Independent-Living Services: The Views of Former Foster Youth

1997 ◽  
Vol 78 (5) ◽  
pp. 471-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Curtis McMillen ◽  
Gregory B. Rideout ◽  
Rachel H. Fisher ◽  
Jayne Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Young People ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Foster Parents ◽  
Foster Youth ◽  
Former Foster Youth ◽  
Out Of Home Care ◽  
Independent Living Programs ◽  
Independent Living Services

Former consumers of independent-living programs for youth in out-of-home care present their views of the services they received. The youth found that skills classes and stipends for independent living were helpful, that instruction in managing a budget was particularly valuable, and that the services lessened the stigmatization and isolation of being in care. Foster parents and specialized independent-living workers eased the transition out of care, but regular public child welfare caseworkers were not helpful in this regard. The young people report that being in care was difficult to tolerate and that the transition out of care was often abrupt and difficult to manage.

scholarly journals Mind-mindedness in out-of-home Care for Children: Implications for caregivers and child

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Colonnesi ◽  
Carolien Konijn ◽  
Leoniek Kroneman ◽  
Ramón J. L. Lindauer ◽  
Geert Jan J. M. Stams
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Conduct Problems ◽  
Foster Parents ◽  
Trauma Symptoms ◽  
Emotional Symptoms ◽  
Out Of Home Care ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
And Behavior

AbstractMost out-of-home placed children have experienced early adversities, including maltreatment and neglect. A challenge for caregivers is to adequately interpret their foster child’s internal mental states and behavior. We examined caregivers’ mind-mindedness in out-of-home care, and the association among caregivers’ mind-mindedness (and its positive, neutral, and negative valence), recognition of the child’s trauma symptoms, and behavior problems. Participants (N = 138) were foster parents, family-home parents, and residential care workers. Caregivers’ mind-mindedness was assessed with the describe-your-child measure. Caregivers’ recognition of the child’s trauma symptoms, their child’s emotional symptoms, conduct problems, prosocial behavior, and quality of the caregiver-child relationship were assessed using caregivers’ reports. Foster parents produced more mental-state descriptors than did residential care workers. General mind-mindedness, as well as neutral and positive mind-mindedness, related negatively to conduct problems. Besides, positive mind-mindedness was associated with prosocial behavior and neutral mind-mindedness with a better quality of the caregiver-child relationship and fewer child conduct problems. Negative mind-mindedness related positively to the caregiver’s recognition of the child’s trauma symptoms, and indirectly, to emotional symptoms. In conclusion, mind-mindedness seems to be an essential characteristic of out-of-home caregivers, connected to the understanding of their child’s behavior problems and trauma symptoms, as well as to the relationship with the child. The findings suggest a possible use of mind-mindedness in out-of-home care evaluation and intervention.

scholarly journals Understanding out of Home Care Rates in Northern Ireland: A Thematic Analysis of Mixed Methods Case Studies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Will Mason ◽  
Kate Morris ◽  
Brid Featherstone ◽  
Lisa Bunting ◽  
Gavin Davidson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Out Of Home Care ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Children In Care

Abstract Research exploring inequalities in UK child welfare interventions has produced counter-intuitive findings with respect to Northern Ireland (NI). Despite experiencing the highest levels of deprivation, NI also displays the lowest rates of children in care of all the UK nations. With reference to wider evidence in the field of child welfare inequalities, this article details the findings of two exploratory mixed methods case studies, located within NI Health and Social Care Trusts. Drawing on the narratives offered by child and family social workers, a series of possible explanations for NI’s significantly lower out of home care rates are considered. We suggest the operation of intersecting factors at multiple levels, including social work systems and practices, early help systems and structures, communities and families. These findings extend understandings of NI’s out of home care rates whilst raising broader questions for social work research and practice.

scholarly journals Children in out-of-home care in Australia: International comparisons

2008 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare Tilbury ◽  
June Thoburn
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
International Comparisons ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Out Of Home Care ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
Children In Care

As governments increasingly search globally for strategies to improve child welfare outcomes, it is vital to consider how policies and programs developed in other countries are likely to suit local conditions. Routinely collected child welfare administrative data can provide contextual information for cross-national comparisons. This article examines out-of-home care in Australia compared to other developed countries, and explores possible explanations for differences in patterns and trends. In doing so, it also examines the similarities and differences between NSW, Victoria and Queensland. It is argued that a sound understanding of how out-of-home care is used, the profile of children in care and the influences on data can assist policy makers to match proposed solutions to clearly understood current problems. The imperative is to plan and implement policies and programs that locate out-of-home care within a range of child welfare services that meet the diverse needs of children and families within local contexts.

Mental health outcomes among child welfare investigated children: In-home versus out-of-home care

2015 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 106-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Marie Conn ◽  
Moira A. Szilagyi ◽  
Sandra H. Jee ◽  
Aaron K. Blumkin ◽  
Peter G. Szilagyi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Mental Health Outcomes ◽  
Out Of Home Care

Child Welfare: Overview

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Pecora
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Foster Care ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Child Maltreatment ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Developmentally Appropriate ◽  
Welfare Program ◽  
Out Of Home Care

The mission of child welfare is multifaceted and includes: (a) responding to the needs of children reported to public child-protection agencies as being abused, neglected, or at risk of child maltreatment; (b) providing children placed in out-of-home care with developmentally appropriate services; and (c) helping children find permanent homes in the least-restrictive living situations possible; and (d) providing “post-permanency” services to children so they do not return to foster care. This section describes the mission, scope, and selected issues of major child-welfare-program areas.

Developing a Case Typology for Children in Out-of-Home Care: Child Welfare Worker Perspectives

2008 ◽  
Vol 89 (2) ◽  
pp. 302-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret M. Skrypek ◽  
Susan J. Wells ◽  
Kristen Bauerkemper ◽  
Laura Koranda ◽  
Amber Link
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Care Child ◽  
Out Of Home Care

scholarly journals Supportive practices: perceptions of interventions targeting parents whose children are placed in out-of-home care

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-362
Author(s):  
Emelie Shanks ◽  
Ylva Spånberger Weitz
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Child Welfare Services ◽  
Emotional Needs ◽  
Welfare Services ◽  
Out Of Home Care ◽  
Individual Support ◽  
Financial Arrangements

Knowledge regarding the needs of parents whose children are placed in out-of-home care is still limited and studies focusing on interventions targeting this group are scarce. This article explores birth parents’ views on their needs and perceptions of support delivered by two different interventions: one offering support to individuals and the other providing a parental group. The methodology comprised a thematic analysis of 14 qualitative interviews. Parents’ expressed needs revolved around five issues: participation and influence in the relations with child welfare services; their emotional needs; their social needs; their relationship with their child; and practical and financial arrangements. The results revealed that the two interventions had overlapping as well as specific supportive functions and that these met some of the identified needs. Both programmes provided an opportunity for parents to speak openly about their grief and experiences of stigma and to receive help to cope with it, thus functioning as empowering and stigma-relieving practices that provide emotional support. The intervention that offered individual support contributed to a reduction in parents’ feelings of powerlessness when negotiating with child welfare services and functioned as an equalising practice by facilitating participation and influence. The parental group succeeded in reducing parents’ social isolation, providing social support and functioning as a normalising practice. However, neither intervention was explicitly perceived as helpful for improving parent–child relationships or practical and financial arrangements. The study highlights how the parents benefitted from receiving different types of support and contributes to knowledge about a group that has been neglected in practice and research.

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