Promoting Foster Carer Strengths
Suggestions for Strengths-Based Practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11941374 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tim Odell (London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 19-28 |
| Publication date | 2008-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Adoption & Fostering (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-5759 • E-ISSN: 1740-469X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/030857590803200104 |
| OpenAlex | W2330597650 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 8 |
Sixty-eight per cent of looked after children in the UK are in foster care. Children in foster care benefit from continuity. Sometimes, due to worker turnover and workloads, that continuity comes not from a social worker but from a foster carer. Thus, children in foster care can develop significant attachments to their carers, who are likely to have a valuable role to play in long-term planning for a child. A strengths approach to fostering social work places value on the input of carers as experts on a child, but the social work research literature reveals limited information about the use of such an approach in supervising foster carers. This article by Tim Odell builds on recent writing and suggests that the strengths perspective could be of value in working with foster carers, just as it has been in other settings. A case study examines the process of moving on for one child and how social workers and carers worked together to take a creative approach for a child with a history of multiple placements. This case study illustrates elements of a strengths-based approach. Suggestions for further application of such a model with foster carers are made, and areas for further practice research identified
Child care · Foster care · Foster parents · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Process (computing · Public relations · Value (mathematics · Work (physics · Child Welfare and Adoption · Family and Disability Support Research · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice · Social Work
What Did They Think
The supervising social worker in an inner city
Qualitative Studies of Foster Carer Experiences in Providing Out of Home Care for Children
Social work graduate students’ understanding of strength-eliciting questions in the context of social work assessment
The role of out-of-home caregivers in the achievement of child welfare permanency
Participatory discourse
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,35 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2022 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |