Maintaining Attachment Relationships among Children in Foster Care

1994 ◽  
Vol 75 (5) ◽  
pp. 269-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Kevin Grigsby
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Permanency Planning ◽  
Protective Services ◽  
Attachment Relationship ◽  
Attachment Relationships ◽  
Children In Foster Care ◽  
Child Attachment ◽  
Child Visitation ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Parent Child

Frequent, regular parent–child visitation of children in foster care is crucial in maintaining the attachment relationship of the parent and child. Further, the parent–child attachment concept is crucial for permanency planning because it is the rationale behind the goal of providing children with a stable and continuous relationship with the parent or another caretaker, if that child cannot return to the care of the parent. In order to ascertain whether protective services workers recognize and emphasize the importance of maintaining parent–child or other attachment relationships, the author studied closed case records of children who had experienced foster-care placement. Results are discussed in the context of social-attachment theory.

Parent-Child Attachment Concept: Crucial for Permanency Planning

1982 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peg Hess
Keyword(s):  
Permanency Planning ◽  
Child Attachment ◽  
Child Visitation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Parent Child

Various dimensions of the concept of parent-child attachment, including the impact of separation on attachments and factors which contribute to change in attachments are reviewed. Emphasis is given to early designation of the foster child's expected, permanent caretaker, and to frequent, regular parent-child visitation.

Children in Foster Care: Possible factors affecting permanency planning

1993 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric C. Albers ◽  
Thom Reilly ◽  
Barbara Rittner
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Permanency Planning ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Children In Foster Care

scholarly journals Early Attachment to Mothers and Fathers: Contributions to Preschoolers' Emotional Regulation

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Fernandes ◽  
Marilia Fernandes ◽  
António J. Santos ◽  
Marta Antunes ◽  
Lígia Monteiro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Emotional Regulation ◽  
Attachment Security ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Nuclear Families ◽  
Attachment Relationships ◽  
Preschool Classrooms ◽  
Child Attachment ◽  
Parent Child

Children acquire and develop emotional regulatory skills in the context of parent-child attachment relationships, nonetheless empirical studies have focused mainly on mother and less information is available regarding the role of both parent-child attachment relationships. Furthermore, despite its importance, there is no information regarding preschool years. This study aims to fill this gap by exploring the potential influences of both mother-child and father-child attachments on preschooler's later emotion regulation observed in the peer group. Fifty-three Portuguese nuclear families (mother, father and focal child) participated in the study; 47% of the children were boys and 53% were girls. Attachment Security was assessed at home using the Attachment Behavior Q-set when children were 3 years of age, and emotion regulation was observed in the preschool classrooms attended by the children at age 5, using the California child Q-sort to derive an Emotion Regulation Q-Scale. Results showed that the combined influence of both parent-child attachment security predicted better emotion regulation results, than did the specific contributions of each parent per se. Findings are consistent with integrative approaches that highlight the value of including both mother- and father-child attachment relationships, as well as their combined effect, when studying emotion regulation.

Health Care of Children in Foster Care

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 93 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Behavioral Problems ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
School Achievement ◽  
Emotional And Behavioral Problems ◽  
Socioeconomic Background ◽  
Permanency Planning ◽  
State Custody ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Children In Foster Care

The foster care system in America has evolved as a means of providing protection and shelter for children who require out-of-home placement.1 It is designed to be a temporary service, with a goal of either returning children home or arranging for suitable adoptive homes. In recent years, child welfare agencies have been directing greater efforts toward supporting families in crisis to prevent foster care placements whenever feasible and to reunify families as soon as possible when placements cannot be avoided. Increasingly, extended family members are being recruited and assisted in providing kinship care for children when their biologic parents cannot care for them. However, during the past decade the number of children in foster care has nearly doubled, despite landmark federal legislation designed to expedite permanency planning for children in state custody.2 It is estimated that by 1995 more than 500 000 children will be in foster care.3 In large part, this unrelenting trend is the result of increased abuse and neglect of children occurring in the context of parental substance abuse, mental illness, homelessness, and human immunodeficiency virus infection.4 As a result, a disproportionate number of children placed in foster care come from that segment of the population with the fewest social and financial resources and from families that have few personal and limited extended family sources of support.5 It is not surprising then that children entering foster care are often in poor health. Compared with children from the same socioeconomic background, they suffer much higher rates of serious emotional and behavioral problems, chronic physical disabilities, birth defects, developmental delays, and poor school achievement.6-13

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