Foster Parent-Foster Child Comparisons as Evidence upon the Nature-Nurture Problem

Foster Parent Training: Problem-Solving Strategies

Professional Foster Parent Program

The Professional Foster Care Program is a pilot program designed to provide care and support to female youth, 13-17 with serious emotional and mental health needs through matching them with a foster care parent who is a paid professional employed by the foster care agency. The foster care parent, through undergoing specialized training also becomes the care coordinator for the youth. The foster...

Predicting Foster Child Exit Outcomes

This project is only a predictive exercise, and I cannot claim any causalities. For instance, I found that the number of days spent in foster care is important in predicting the exit outcome of a child. However, I cannot claim that staying longer in foster care causes a child to exit one way or another. There can be other unaccounted variables that impact both the length of stay and the exit ou...

Foster children’s behavioral development and foster parent stress: testing a transactional model

The goal of this three-wave longitudinal study was to analyze foster parent stress and foster children's internalizing and externalizing behaviors in a transactional framework. Participants in this study were 237 children in foster care in the Netherlands with, mostly, long placement durations (M = 56.86 months, SD = 49.10 months). We examined concurrent, prospective unidirectional and bidirect...

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 disrup...