Foster Care and Best Interests of the Child
Integrating Research, Policy, and Practice
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Beschreibung
This brief examines the U.S. foster care system and seeks to explain why the foster care system functions as it does and how it can be improved to serve the best interest of children. It defines and evaluates key challenges that undermine child safety and well-being in the current foster care system. Chapters highlight the competing values and priorities of the system as well as the pros and cons for the use of foster care. In addition, chapters assess whether the performance objectives in which states are evaluated by the federal government are sufficient to achieve positive health and well-being outcomes for children who experience foster care. Finally, it offers recommendations for improving the system and maximizing positive outcomes.
Topics featured in this brief include:
- Legal aspects of removal and placement of children in foster care.
- The effectiveness of prior efforts to reform foster care.
- The regulation and quality of fosterhomes.
- Support for youth aging out of the foster care system.
- Racial and ethnic disparities in the foster care system.
Foster Care and the Best Interests of the Child is a must-have resource for policy makers and related professionals, graduate students, and researchers in child and school psychology, family studies, public health, social work, law/criminal justice, and sociology.
Examines the theory, policy, practice, and empirical research behind the U.S. foster care system Questions core values and objectives of the foster care system Discusses competing values and priorities of the system (e.g., political, economic, and legal incentives) for and against the use of foster care Describes and evaluates key challenges that undermine child safety and well-being in the current foster care system
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Sarah A. Font
Themen in »Foster Care and Best Interests of the Child«
Adoption and foster care Child maltreatment and foster care Child protection and foster care Child well-being and foster care Class biases and foster care Culture and foster care Emotional health and foster care Family preservation and foster care Family reunification and foster care Foster care policies and practices Kinship placements and foster care Legal parameters and foster care placement Mental health and foster care Nonrelative placements and foster care Parental rights and foster care