Foster Home Breakdown
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11098562 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James W Trent (corresponding author), Hedy Cleaver |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 257 |
| Publication date | 1989-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Foster home breakdown, David Berridge, 1988 |
| Venue | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2074112 |
| OpenAlex | W2058034866 |
| Language | EN |
At a time when fostering has become a cornerstone of social work policy, with 40,000 children placed in foster homes, this book highlights the personal tragedy that occurs when relationships between children and their foster parents break down. It provides the first detailed examination of placement breakdown in 20 years, a period in which major developments have occurred regarding services for deprived children. The book presents research findings on a range of foster placements - planned long-term, short-term and intermediate fosterings - in three contrasting social work agencies. Detailed information was gathered on over 530 foster placements, and the features of successful and unsuccessful fosterings are identified. In particular, the impact on placement outcome of three themes is explored: the early rearing histories of children; the maintenance of children's social networks; and placement-related factors. In addition, the authors offer a more intensive study of ten placements in which foster home breakdown occurred, and discuss the perspectives of all participants - social workers, foster parents, natural parents, teachers and children. Case-study material of two children provides illustration of the research findings. The maintenance of children's social networks - with natural parents, siblings and peers - is shown to be especially important for successful fostering. Finally, the authors consider the future development of foster care, and advocate the further development of a more specialist, professional approach
Foster Children’s Sense of Sibling Belonging
Contact between children in out-of-home placements and their family and friends networks
Foster Care Outcomes
Disruptions in foster care
Parental Visiting, Conflicting Allegiances, and Emotional and Behavioral Problems Among Foster Children
Psychiatric symptoms and substance use disorders in a nationally representative sample of American adolescents involved with foster care
A comparison of mental health problems in kinship and nonkinship foster care
An Innovative Project for Young People in Care Who have been Sexually Abused
The trouble with foster care
Foster Carer Strain and its Impact on Parenting and Placement Outcomes for Adolescents
Fostering Children and Young People on Remand
A Kind of Loving
Dealing With It
Hearing Quiet Voices
Matches and Mismatches
Organisational Influences on Professional Behaviour
The Limits of Support in Foster Care
A Study of Post-Adoption Contact in Compulsory Adoptions
Assessment in Kinship Foster Care
Siblings of children in care or accommodation
Leaving care interviews for young people who have been ‘looked after’
Improving Outcomes for Looked after Children
Group care in Northern Ireland
Foster youth and crime
The unknown soldiers of foster care
Breakdown of care
The past, the present, but never the future’
Intercountry Adoption Disruptions in Spain
Cutting the ties—the termination of contact in care
The Children Act 1989; balancing child welfare with the concept of partnership with parents
The Research Background to the Law on Parental Access to Children in Care
The Outcome of Adoptions from Romania Predictors of Parental Satisfaction
The Implications of Recent Child Care Research Findings for Foster Care
Family Placements from a Chinese Institution
The integration of child care services in Scotland
Revisiting conventional wisdom
Separation from siblings
Carer perspectives of factors affecting placement trajectories of children in out-of-home care
Research on placement moves
Placement stability and inclusive practice in foster care
The language and policy of care and parenting
Children in substitute care
Family types and social integration in kinship foster care
Pathways in substitute care
Placement disruption in long-term kinship and nonkinship foster care
Arranging stability for children in long-term out-of-home care
Anti-social youth? Disruptions in care and the role of ‘behavioral problems’
Ideology and conflict
Including birth families in foster care
Graduating from care — A missed opportunity for encouraging successful citizenship
Family reunification with high risk children
Concept-mapping the challenges faced by foster parents
| Highly cited | No |
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