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Bonding And Psychosocial Adjustment Of Youth In Foster Care, Alicia Marie Nicoleau
Bonding And Psychosocial Adjustment Of Youth In Foster Care, Alicia Marie Nicoleau
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Foster families face complex issues that include a history of maltreatment, family disruption, placement instability, behavioral problems, and other adjustment related concerns. Adjusting to these issues presents unique challenges to foster youths and their families. Using family systems theory as the theoretical lens, this study explored the ways in which youth psychosocial adjustment is related to the interactions between foster parents and foster youth in long-term placement as perceived and reported by foster parents. This study utilized a qualitative methodology with a grounded theory approach. Using in-depth interviews, foster parents described their perceptions of how their foster youth cope and …