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EBP in Foster Parent Training and SupportHenry, D., Cossett, D., Auletta, T., & Egan,E. (1991). Needed services for fosterparents of sexually abused children. Childand Adolescent Social Work, 8, 127-140.Population: Family-based foster careMethod: This article reports on a descriptive study of the service provided to fosterparents who care for sexually abused children. Agency directors, social workers andfoster parents were asked to respond to mailed questionnaires, which focused on thefoster parents’ knowledge of the abusive events, their responses to the children’s mostproblematic symptoms, and available and needed services. Subjects were selectedfrom the first 100 cases of children referred over a two year period to The Child SexualAbuse Diagnostic and Treatment Center. Thirty of these children were identified asfoster children. Telephone contact was initiated with 21 foster families. Eight fosteragencies, 12 social workers (for 16 sexually abused children) and 8 agency directorswere identified. Participants also completed telephone interviews.Findings: All directors reported that the agency informed foster parents of previoussexual abuse prior to placement, but only half of foster parents in the sample admittedknowledge of the children’s abusive experiences prior to placement. All respondentsagreed that foster parents of sexually abused children needed specialized training andeducation. Agency staff indicated that they provided adequate parent training andeducation to foster parents; foster parents noted the services were not adequate fortheir needs. More than half of the foster parents in the sample indicated the need formore training. Foster parents expressed need for ongoing support and trainingthroughout the entire placement period.Rhodes, K. W., Orme, J. G., & Buehler, C.(2001). A comparison of family fosterparents who quit, consider quitting, andplan to continue fostering. Social ServiceReview, 75, 84-114.Limitations: The manner in which the questionnaires were written allowed thepossibility of multiple interpretations of questions.Method: This descriptive study examined why some foster families continue to fosterwhereas others do not. Data for the analysis were from the National Survey of Currentand Former Foster Parents (NSC&FFP), which was conducted in 1991. Only currentfoster homes started by 1985 are examined in the study. Of the total sample of 1,048current foster homes, 336 were approved in 1985 or after. Of these 317 completed thelong interview form (94%). Of the sample of 267 current foster families was furtherdivided into parents who planned to continue fostering families was further divided intoCenter for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW)University of Minnesota School of Social WorkContact: Kristine N. Piescher, Ph.D. kpiesche@umn.edu 39
EBP in Foster Parent Training and SupportPopulation: Family-based foster careparents who planned to continue fostering and parents who planned to quit. Of thesample of 265 former foster homes, 144 completed the long interview form (54%).Findings: Most foster parents cited more than one reason for discontinuing foster care.Common reasons included lack of agency support, poor communication with workers,and children’s behaviors. The findings from comparing former foster parents with thosewho planned to quit soon suggest that several variables are more critical to currentparents who are planning to quit than to foster parents who already quit. Frequentreasons included, health problems, full time employment, inadequate reimbursement,lack of day care, not having a say in child’s future, seeing children leave, and problemswith child’s biological families. Less than one third of foster parents reported havingenough information about the legal aspects of foster care, or about working withchildren who were of a different race, handicapped, or sexually abused.Findings suggest that after quitting, foster parents might perceive they lackedinformation about the unique parenting demands of foster children, whereas agencyrelationships might be a deciding factor that results in qualified homes planning to quit.Training appeared to positively impact a foster parents continued fostering, that is if afoster parent received additional training, they were more likely to continue fostering.Many of the foster parents who intend to quit fostering believed that their families andfoster children are not receiving adequate services and that they have no say in thechildren’s futures.Limitations: Use of a point-in-time sample might have led to overrepresentation ofcurrent foster families with longer services. Study focused only on nonkinship fosterfamily retention. Relatively few of the comparisons made indicated statisticallysignificant differences between continuing, planning to quit, and former foster parents.NSC&FPP used a retrospective rather than prospective research design.Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW)University of Minnesota School of Social WorkContact: Kristine N. Piescher, Ph.D. kpiesche@umn.edu 40
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