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Foster Parents’ Experience Of Placement Disruptions For Youths In Foster Care, Deyettea Kim Alexander
Foster Parents’ Experience Of Placement Disruptions For Youths In Foster Care, Deyettea Kim Alexander
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Placement disruptions for youths placed in foster care have been the focus of multiple studies due to the negative and long-lasting impacts on these vulnerable youths. The purpose of this interpretative phenomenological study was to explore the lived experience of placement disruptions from the foster parent’s perspective to gain further understanding of potential causes of placement disruptions and what may be helpful to prevent them. The study was based on the lens of attachment theory. Data were collected from interviews with six participants recruited on social media who were licensed in the State of Washington for at least 1 year …
The Impact Of Caseworkers' Educational Background And Placement Outcomes For Foster Children, Katrina Haynes
The Impact Of Caseworkers' Educational Background And Placement Outcomes For Foster Children, Katrina Haynes
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Decades of data document that permanent placements of children in the welfare system has been a concern in Mississippi. As foster care rates increase, more children are awaiting placement. Researchers have linked child welfare workers' educational background to placement outcomes for foster care children; however, researchers have not addressed the relationship between child welfare workers' educational backgrounds and foster care placement outcomes in Mississippi. This quantitative study examined the educational backgrounds of social work and nonsocial work child welfare caseworkers and other factors such as children's gender and race as predictors in placement outcomes for children in welfare custody. Attachment …