The Relationship of Family Background and Casework Involvement to Placement Stability

Stability of foster family placements is viewed as a function of the types of families foster children come from and the involvement of caseworkers in the children's cases. Two groups of children (N = 30) whose foster care histories differed in the number of placements they had experienced were compared. The identification of children prior to their first placement as "at risk" for instability in foster care is recommended, with the targeting of intensive casework activities on those children to follow as a means of lessening the likelihood of later placement changes

Biology · Developmental psychology · Family medicine · Foster care · Foster parents · Identification (biology · Child Welfare and Adoption · Family and Disability Support Research · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology