Patricia Chamberlain
Biographic Data
| ID | 4415448 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Chamberlain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia |
| FAMILY NAME | Chamberlain |
| SIGNATURE | CHAMBERLAIN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oregon Social Learning Center |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 148 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Adapting Keep, an evidence-based parenting preventive intervention, for sexual and gender minority youth in the child welfare system
A pilot randomized controlled trial of a technology-based substance use intervention for youth exiting foster care
Measuring collaboration and communication to increase implementation of evidence-based practices
The Cultural Exchange Inventory (CEI) is a 15-item instrument designed to measure the process (7 items) and outcomes (8 items) of exchanges of knowledge, attitudes and practices between members of different organisations collaborating in implementing evidence-based practice. We conducted principal axis factor analyses and parallel analyses of data describing exchanges with intermediary organisations, treatment developers, other agencies in the sa…
Use of research evidence and implementation of evidence-based practices in youth-serving systems
The More and Less Study
ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01792531 Registered February 14, 2013
Drug Use Trajectories After a Randomized Controlled Trial of MTFC
Trajectories of drug use were examined in a sample of women with prior juvenile-justice system involvement. One hundred fifty-three young women who participated in a randomized controlled trial of Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC) in adolescence were assessed on five occasions over a 24-month period in young adulthood (mean age = 22.29 years at T1). Participants assigned to the MTFC condition during adolescence reported greater decrea…
Measuring Use of Research Evidence
The SIEU is easy to use and can be administered as a complete scale or as three smaller scales to separately examine evidence in acquisition, evaluation, or application. The measure demonstrates potential in understanding the role of research evidence in service settings and in monitoring the process of evidence-based practice and application of scientific principles in social work practice
The cost of implementing new strategies (Coins)
Examining the equivalence of fidelity over two generations of Keep implementation
Practitioner Review
Background: An increasing number of children are placed in foster care (i.e., a kin or nonkin family home other than the biological parent) due to experiences of physical, sexual, emotional, or psychological abuse, and/or neglect. Children in foster care are at increased risk for a host of negative outcomes encompassing emotional, behavioral, neurobiological, and social realms. Methods: Areas of risk and vulnerability among foster children are de…
Adapting Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care for the Treatment of Co-occurring Trauma and Delinquency in Adolescent Girls
Supporting Implementation
Evidence‐based methods for assisting consumers, such as counties, in successfully implementing practices are lacking in the field of implementation science. To fill this gap, the Community Development Teams (CDT) approach was developed to assist counties in developing peer networks focused on problem‐solving and resource sharing to enhance their possibility of successful implementation. The CDT is an interactive, solution‐focused approach that sh…
Mixed Method Designs in Implementation Research
This paper describes the application of mixed method designs in implementation research in 22 mental health services research studies published in peer-reviewed journals over the last 5 years. Our analyses revealed 7 different structural arrangements of qualitative and quantitative methods, 5 different functions of mixed methods, and 3 different ways of linking quantitative and qualitative data together. Complexity of design was associated with n…
Using the bridges transition framework for youth in foster care
Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care as a Preventive Intervention to Promote Resiliency Among Youth in the Child Welfare System
Demographic trends indicate that a growing segment of families is exposed to adversity such as poverty, drug use problems, caregiver transitions, and domestic violence. Although these risk processes and the accompanying poor outcomes for children have been well studied, little is known about why some children develop resilience in the face of such adversity, particularly when it is severe enough to invoke child welfare involvement. This paper des…
Improving the lives of foster children through evidenced-based interventions
In the United States and England, the use of evidence-based interventions for children in foster care has the potential to decrease the widespread disparities in health and mental health outcomes, improve placement stability and increase the likelihood of children achieving permanency. Nevertheless, there have been few discussions about the systematic implementation of evidence-based practice to address different levels of need and risk in foster…
Keep foster‐parent training intervention
In this paper, we describe the development and history of the Keeping Foster Parents Trained and Supported (KEEP) foster‐parent training intervention. KEEP intervention represents a modified version of the Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care intervention developed by interventionists at the Oregon Social Learning Center and is designed to provide training and support for children ages 5–11 in regular foster care. We also report on the initial …
Foster Parent Intervention Engagement Moderating Child Behavior Problems and Placement Disruption
OBJECTIVE: The authors conduct a within intervention group analysis to test whether caregiver engagement (e.g., participation, homework completion, openness to ideas, apparent satisfaction) in a group-based intervention moderates risk factors for foster child outcomes in a state-supported randomized trial of caregiver parent training. METHODS: The intervention is delivered in 16 weekly sessions by trained leaders. Outcomes are pre-post change in …
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 disruption risks associated with children's placement histo…
Prevention of Behavior Problems for Children in Foster Care
A Randomized Evaluation of Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care
Despite growing evidence that child welfare youth are at increased risk for juvenile delinquency, little is known about gender-specific processes and effective treatment programs for girls. Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC), an empirically validated intervention for child welfare and juvenile justice populations, has demonstrated efficacy in reducing arrest rates in delinquent boys and girls. In this study, the efficacy of MTFC on sch…
Who disrupts from placement in foster and kinship care?
Parent-Training Programs in Child Welfare Services
Child welfare service agencies provide parent training as part of their legally mandated responsibility to provide services to assist families to keep their children at home or to achieve reunification. The use of parent-training programs for families in the child welfare system has undergone relatively little examination. Mental health, special education, and juvenile justice have been identifying evidence-based approaches that have demonstrated…
Placement Disruption in Treatment Foster Care
Rates of placement disruption in traditional and treatment foster care are reviewed. Contextual factors, individual child and caregiver characteristics, and risk factors thought to influence rates of placement disruption are explored. A model for treatment foster care is described, and data are presented on disruption rates for this program. The results indicated that the likelihood of placement disruption is two times higher during the first 6 m…
Comparison of two community alternatives to incarceration for chronic juvenile offenders.
Parent-Training Programs in Child Welfare Services
Child welfare service agencies provide parent training as part of their legally mandated responsibility to provide services to assist families to keep their children at home or to achieve reunification. The use of parent-training programs for families in the child welfare system has undergone relatively little examination. Mental health, special education, and juvenile justice have been identifying evidence-based approaches that have demonstrated…
Keep foster‐parent training intervention
In this paper, we describe the development and history of the Keeping Foster Parents Trained and Supported (KEEP) foster‐parent training intervention. KEEP intervention represents a modified version of the Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care intervention developed by interventionists at the Oregon Social Learning Center and is designed to provide training and support for children ages 5–11 in regular foster care. We also report on the initial …
Measuring Use of Research Evidence
The SIEU is easy to use and can be administered as a complete scale or as three smaller scales to separately examine evidence in acquisition, evaluation, or application. The measure demonstrates potential in understanding the role of research evidence in service settings and in monitoring the process of evidence-based practice and application of scientific principles in social work practice
Foster Parent Intervention Engagement Moderating Child Behavior Problems and Placement Disruption
OBJECTIVE: The authors conduct a within intervention group analysis to test whether caregiver engagement (e.g., participation, homework completion, openness to ideas, apparent satisfaction) in a group-based intervention moderates risk factors for foster child outcomes in a state-supported randomized trial of caregiver parent training. METHODS: The intervention is delivered in 16 weekly sessions by trained leaders. Outcomes are pre-post change in …
A Randomized Evaluation of Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care
Despite growing evidence that child welfare youth are at increased risk for juvenile delinquency, little is known about gender-specific processes and effective treatment programs for girls. Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC), an empirically validated intervention for child welfare and juvenile justice populations, has demonstrated efficacy in reducing arrest rates in delinquent boys and girls. In this study, the efficacy of MTFC on sch…
The cost of implementing new strategies (Coins)
Supporting Implementation
Evidence‐based methods for assisting consumers, such as counties, in successfully implementing practices are lacking in the field of implementation science. To fill this gap, the Community Development Teams (CDT) approach was developed to assist counties in developing peer networks focused on problem‐solving and resource sharing to enhance their possibility of successful implementation. The CDT is an interactive, solution‐focused approach that sh…
Measuring collaboration and communication to increase implementation of evidence-based practices
The Cultural Exchange Inventory (CEI) is a 15-item instrument designed to measure the process (7 items) and outcomes (8 items) of exchanges of knowledge, attitudes and practices between members of different organisations collaborating in implementing evidence-based practice. We conducted principal axis factor analyses and parallel analyses of data describing exchanges with intermediary organisations, treatment developers, other agencies in the sa…
Use of research evidence and implementation of evidence-based practices in youth-serving systems
Drug Use Trajectories After a Randomized Controlled Trial of MTFC
Trajectories of drug use were examined in a sample of women with prior juvenile-justice system involvement. One hundred fifty-three young women who participated in a randomized controlled trial of Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC) in adolescence were assessed on five occasions over a 24-month period in young adulthood (mean age = 22.29 years at T1). Participants assigned to the MTFC condition during adolescence reported greater decrea…
Examining the equivalence of fidelity over two generations of Keep implementation
Improving the lives of foster children through evidenced-based interventions
In the United States and England, the use of evidence-based interventions for children in foster care has the potential to decrease the widespread disparities in health and mental health outcomes, improve placement stability and increase the likelihood of children achieving permanency. Nevertheless, there have been few discussions about the systematic implementation of evidence-based practice to address different levels of need and risk in foster…
A pilot randomized controlled trial of a technology-based substance use intervention for youth exiting foster care
Using the bridges transition framework for youth in foster care
Using a specialized foster care community treatment model for children and adolescents leaving the state mental hospital
This study assessed the effects of providing treatment in a Specialized Foster Care (SFC) program for children and adolescents who had been previously hospitalized. Cases were randomly assigned fpr placement in SFC or other extrahospital settings, including residential treatment centers and family/relative homes. The SFC program used carefully selected foster parents who were trained and supervised in the implementation of the child's treatment p…
Comparison of two community alternatives to incarceration for chronic juvenile offenders.
Placement Disruption in Treatment Foster Care
Rates of placement disruption in traditional and treatment foster care are reviewed. Contextual factors, individual child and caregiver characteristics, and risk factors thought to influence rates of placement disruption are explored. A model for treatment foster care is described, and data are presented on disruption rates for this program. The results indicated that the likelihood of placement disruption is two times higher during the first 6 m…
Parent-Training Programs in Child Welfare Services
Child welfare service agencies provide parent training as part of their legally mandated responsibility to provide services to assist families to keep their children at home or to achieve reunification. The use of parent-training programs for families in the child welfare system has undergone relatively little examination. Mental health, special education, and juvenile justice have been identifying evidence-based approaches that have demonstrated…
Who disrupts from placement in foster and kinship care?
A Randomized Evaluation of Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care
Despite growing evidence that child welfare youth are at increased risk for juvenile delinquency, little is known about gender-specific processes and effective treatment programs for girls. Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC), an empirically validated intervention for child welfare and juvenile justice populations, has demonstrated efficacy in reducing arrest rates in delinquent boys and girls. In this study, the efficacy of MTFC on sch…
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 disruption risks associated with children's placement histo…
Prevention of Behavior Problems for Children in Foster Care
Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care as a Preventive Intervention to Promote Resiliency Among Youth in the Child Welfare System
Demographic trends indicate that a growing segment of families is exposed to adversity such as poverty, drug use problems, caregiver transitions, and domestic violence. Although these risk processes and the accompanying poor outcomes for children have been well studied, little is known about why some children develop resilience in the face of such adversity, particularly when it is severe enough to invoke child welfare involvement. This paper des…
Improving the lives of foster children through evidenced-based interventions
In the United States and England, the use of evidence-based interventions for children in foster care has the potential to decrease the widespread disparities in health and mental health outcomes, improve placement stability and increase the likelihood of children achieving permanency. Nevertheless, there have been few discussions about the systematic implementation of evidence-based practice to address different levels of need and risk in foster…
Keep foster‐parent training intervention
In this paper, we describe the development and history of the Keeping Foster Parents Trained and Supported (KEEP) foster‐parent training intervention. KEEP intervention represents a modified version of the Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care intervention developed by interventionists at the Oregon Social Learning Center and is designed to provide training and support for children ages 5–11 in regular foster care. We also report on the initial …
Foster Parent Intervention Engagement Moderating Child Behavior Problems and Placement Disruption
OBJECTIVE: The authors conduct a within intervention group analysis to test whether caregiver engagement (e.g., participation, homework completion, openness to ideas, apparent satisfaction) in a group-based intervention moderates risk factors for foster child outcomes in a state-supported randomized trial of caregiver parent training. METHODS: The intervention is delivered in 16 weekly sessions by trained leaders. Outcomes are pre-post change in …
Mixed Method Designs in Implementation Research
This paper describes the application of mixed method designs in implementation research in 22 mental health services research studies published in peer-reviewed journals over the last 5 years. Our analyses revealed 7 different structural arrangements of qualitative and quantitative methods, 5 different functions of mixed methods, and 3 different ways of linking quantitative and qualitative data together. Complexity of design was associated with n…
Using the bridges transition framework for youth in foster care
Practitioner Review
Background: An increasing number of children are placed in foster care (i.e., a kin or nonkin family home other than the biological parent) due to experiences of physical, sexual, emotional, or psychological abuse, and/or neglect. Children in foster care are at increased risk for a host of negative outcomes encompassing emotional, behavioral, neurobiological, and social realms. Methods: Areas of risk and vulnerability among foster children are de…
Adapting Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care for the Treatment of Co-occurring Trauma and Delinquency in Adolescent Girls
Supporting Implementation
Evidence‐based methods for assisting consumers, such as counties, in successfully implementing practices are lacking in the field of implementation science. To fill this gap, the Community Development Teams (CDT) approach was developed to assist counties in developing peer networks focused on problem‐solving and resource sharing to enhance their possibility of successful implementation. The CDT is an interactive, solution‐focused approach that sh…
Examining the equivalence of fidelity over two generations of Keep implementation
Drug Use Trajectories After a Randomized Controlled Trial of MTFC
Trajectories of drug use were examined in a sample of women with prior juvenile-justice system involvement. One hundred fifty-three young women who participated in a randomized controlled trial of Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC) in adolescence were assessed on five occasions over a 24-month period in young adulthood (mean age = 22.29 years at T1). Participants assigned to the MTFC condition during adolescence reported greater decrea…
Measuring Use of Research Evidence
The SIEU is easy to use and can be administered as a complete scale or as three smaller scales to separately examine evidence in acquisition, evaluation, or application. The measure demonstrates potential in understanding the role of research evidence in service settings and in monitoring the process of evidence-based practice and application of scientific principles in social work practice
The cost of implementing new strategies (Coins)
The More and Less Study
ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01792531 Registered February 14, 2013
Measuring collaboration and communication to increase implementation of evidence-based practices
The Cultural Exchange Inventory (CEI) is a 15-item instrument designed to measure the process (7 items) and outcomes (8 items) of exchanges of knowledge, attitudes and practices between members of different organisations collaborating in implementing evidence-based practice. We conducted principal axis factor analyses and parallel analyses of data describing exchanges with intermediary organisations, treatment developers, other agencies in the sa…
Use of research evidence and implementation of evidence-based practices in youth-serving systems
A pilot randomized controlled trial of a technology-based substance use intervention for youth exiting foster care
Medicine (23 works) · Psychology (22 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (19 works) · Nursing (18 works) · Clinical Psychology (14 works) · Psychiatry (13 works) · Developmental psychology (12 works) · Foster care (12 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (11 works) · Intervention (counseling (10 works)