Foster children’s behavioral development and foster parent stress: testing a transactional model

Foster children’s behavioral development and foster parent stress: testing a transactional model

The goal of this three-wave longitudinal study was to analyze foster parent stress and foster children's internalizing and externalizing behaviors in a transactional framework. Participants in this study were 237 children in foster care in the Netherlands with, mostly, long placement durations (M = 56.86 months, SD = 49.10 months). We examined concurrent, prospective unidirectional and bidirect...

Professional Foster Parent Program

The Professional Foster Care Program is a pilot program designed to provide care and support to female youth, 13-17 with serious emotional and mental health needs through matching them with a foster care parent who is a paid professional employed by the foster care agency. The foster care parent, through undergoing specialized training also becomes the care coordinator for the youth. The foster...

Foster Parent Training: Problem-Solving Strategies

Effects of a foster parent training intervention on placement changes of children in foster care.

Placement disruptions undermine efforts of child welfare agencies to promote safety, permanency, and child well-being. Child behavior problems significantly contribute to placement changes. The aims of this investigation were to examine the impact of a foster parent training and support intervention (KEEP) on placement changes and to determine whether the intervention mitigates placement disrup...

Do Parents Foster Self-Esteem? Testing the Prospective Impact of Parent Closeness on Adolescent Self-Esteem.

Close parent-child relationships are viewed as important for the development of global self-esteem. Cross-sectional research supports this hypothesis, but longitudinal studies provide inconsistent prospective effects. The current study uses data from Germany (N = 982) and the United States (N = 451) to test longitudinal relations between parent-child closeness and adolescent self-esteem. The au...