Planned and unplanned terminations of foster care placements in the Netherlands: Relationships with characteristics of foster children and foster placements

Reflective Decision-Making and Foster Care Placements

Child Maltreatment and Foster Care Placements

Foster and adoptive mothers' assessment of permanent family placements.

OBJECTIVES To obtain the new carers' evaluation of the success of permanent placement of children within their families and any special needs in the children, and to determine the adequacy of support after placement. DESIGN A postal questionnaire was sent to the foster or adoptive mothers of a five year cohort of 234 children placed for permanence, three to eight years previously, by one loca...

Comparing the executive function and cognitive flexibility and theory of mind in foster and non-foster children

The present study was conducted to compare executive function and cognitive flexibility and  theory of mind in foster and non-foster children. The study population included all and non-foster children in Azarshahr city in 2016. The number of participants included 42 people selected using purposeful sampling. The Tower of Hanoi test and reading mind test by eye image (RMET) were used as a measur...

Maternal foster families provide more stable placements than paternal families