Meaningful Change for Children in Foster Care: Much More than Just Reunification

Autor/inn/en	Dickson, Amy B.; Callahan, Kristin L.; Osofsky, Joy D.
Titel	Meaningful Change for Children in Foster Care: Much More than Just Reunification
Quelle	In: ZERO TO THREE, 36 (2016) 6, S.13-18 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0736-8038
Schlagwörter	Foster Care; Young Children; Child Welfare; Juvenile Courts; Parent Child Relationship; Family Programs; Trauma; Change; Adoption; Louisiana + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pflegehilfe; Frühe Kindheit; Kindeswohl; Juvenile court; Jugendgericht; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Family program; Familienprogramm; Wandel
Abstract	The youngest children in foster care suffer disproportionately. The Adoption and Safe Families Act (1997) attempted to provide greater safeguards for children, which led courts to push for earlier reunifications between foster children and their biological families. Although no one wants young children to languish in the foster care system, early reunification is not always beneficial to the children or their families, particularly when families receive little support. Reunifications should ideally occur only after the family has demonstrated growth and the ability to successfully meet their child's physical and emotional needs. Effective family support entails addressing the caregivers' own trauma and supporting them to make meaningful change. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01