There wasn’t a lot that agreed with what they had described, though maybe they didn’t know more either (…) we received a girl who we thought just had problems with her parents and didn’t have problems herself’. I don’t know how many times I tried to call them and left messages but she never got back to me.’. Those who had experienced more than one placement breakdown could choose themselves which experience to talk about. Any other relevant people. Support and challenges in the process of leaving care: A Swedish qualitative follow-up study of... False allegations and caseworker conflict: Stressors among long-term f... Foster parents' experiences of using child mental health and welfare s... Understanding and parenting children's noncompliant behavior: The effi... Christiansen, Ø, Havik, T, Anderssen, N (, Egelund, T, Böcker-Jakobsen, T, Hammen, I, Olsson, M, Høst, A (, Oosterman, M, Schuengel, C, Wim Slot, N, Bullens, R, Doreleijers, T (, Rostill-Brookes, H, Larkin, M, Toms, A, Churchman, C (, Sallnäs, M, Vinnerljung, B, Westermark, PK (, Smith, DK, Stormshak, E, Chamberlain, P, Whaley, RB (, Sundell, K, Egelund, T, Andrée Löfholm, C, Kaunitz, C (, Vinnerljung, B, Sallnäs, M, Kyhle Westermark, P (. ‘She did go to CYP a few times but CYP said that she was doing too poorly and was too unstable to continue there and with that my contact with CYP ended too. Our findings suggest that foster parents are treated as a normal family without being offered relief and that, to a great extent, they are left on their own to look after and handle the children in their care. The method is based on two aims. In one case, the foster parent received a telephone call regarding a child who had been placed for six years and that the child, who was on a home visit with their biological mother, would not be returning to care. If a placement does break down, it impacts not only the child but often also biological parents, social workers, and foster parents. This thesis started by focusing on Dutch foster children’s well-being, emotional and behavioral functioning and placement stability. Route29 is for our most vulnerable young people who are on the edge of care, in care, or at risk of a foster placement breakdown. child and youth psychiatry (CYP)). She tried to take her life several times and things like that (…) When those people at Child and Youth Psychiatry told me after, that she had tried to take her own life and was in the ER and everything – and that we should keep a close eye on her – an ordinary little family, like we are going to sit awake every night and watch over her the whole time – that’s not going to work either but that’s what they expected us to do. Foster-placement stability and the formation of trust and healthy attachment with adult care-givers are crucial for the development and well-being of foster children (Newton et al., 2000). And, from this information, categories were shaped (Patton, 2002) that were relevant to the studies aims, and were grouped into relevant themes. Members of _ can log in with their society credentials below. Keywords: foster care; placement breakdown; placement instability Document Type: Research Article Affiliations: *Robyn Gilbertson is Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Social Administration and Social Work, Flinders University of South Australia, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, South Australia 5001. The existing body of literature also highlights the harmful effects of disruption, or … ‘So then she went and stayed with her mother and I could leave her there. Foster care instability may result in consecutive changes in primary caretakers, requiring foster children to adapt to new social and physical environments, such as a new neighborhood and a new school. Foster children with behavioural problems, older foster children, foster children denied treatment, and foster children in care because of sexual abuse were more at risk of breakdown. Recommended articles lists articles that we recommend and is powered by our AI driven recommendation engine. They didn’t have time. However, not all foster care placements work out. If the child is aged over 15, the child’s consent is also required. “The team around the child approach makes foster carers feel more supported at times where families would have struggled with challenging behaviour. When a child receives care under LVU, parents remain legal guardians although their discretionary powers are curtailed. Assessing these factors is important when evaluating … 301-317. DOI: [Fulltext PDF] Experiences of Placement Breakdown among Children and Youth with Behavioural Difficulties in the Foster Care System in Croatia Child and Family Social Work , 9, 141-152. Two foster parents describe a return to energy as something positive that happened after a child was moved. After years of experience, fostering had become a lifestyle for some. Document Type: Research Article. A lack of continuing support means that the road leading to giving a child care and security is travelled in the dark and without signposts. in the University of Hull . David Berridge and Hedy Cleaver (1987) Foster home breakdown Oxford: Blackwell 0 631 15817 0. Please read and accept the terms and conditions and check the box to generate a sharing link. For more information view the SAGE Journals Article Sharing page. One of the key aims of the model is to prevent local authority foster placement breakdown. The foster parents in our study, however, describe aggression and emotionally labile behaviours from another perspective. These foster parents described how the social worker actively dealt with the breakdown and were clear: ‘I think Susan who was our social worker at the time did a super clear job in this case’. High demands are placed on foster parents’ ability to provide care and offer a loving home to children who have been raised in difficult environments and who have behaviour problems. The description of their feelings surrounding the breakdown were described in similar ways by those who themselves initiated the breakdown and those where someone else initiated it. The Foster Care Training Hub is part of The Big Initiative which is a multi-agency collaboration bringing together expert practitioners to ... We all begin a new foster placement with high hopes that a “forever” family has been created. in the University of Hull . Although similar factors were identified, the perspectives of foster parents and adolescents differed. The initial placement of a child was often acute and hasty. All of the respondents descriptions of the experiences of breakdown are permeated with more or less hard feelings where they use such words as: terribly difficult and that they felt upset, offended, angry and sad. Email:, Email: robyn.gilbertson@flinders.edu.au, /doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1447-0748.2003.00095.x?needAccess=true. Sometimes despite all efforts, a placement ends quickly before a pre-disruption meeting can be held. Their view of fostering as a form of substitute parenting can become problematic as they are parenting children with difficult life experiences and often complex needs. Placement breakdown significantly increases the chances that a foster parent will decide to end their role as a foster parent (Wilson et al., 2000). being a Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of . This study contributes to the alternative care literature by highlighting the potential of some faltering placements to be maintained and of some failed placements to be renegotiated. FICE International. Breakdowns, or unplanned moves, are much less likely in younger children. Family foster care is the option of choice for children in need of out‐of‐home care in Flanders and the Netherlands. It could also be described as a relief. Analysis was assisted using NVivo 8 software. Placement breakdown was an experience characterized by its suddenness and unplanned nature – beginning and often ending with a lack of planning. Satisfaction at getting support quickly did not necessarily mean that a problem was solved quickly or even that the social worker could deal with the situation directly. Foster children (Argles, 1983) ... M.M. Child welfare is, thus, a combination of controlling and family supportive in nature (Wiklund, 2006) and is legislated through the Social Services Act (SoL). ‘We’ve never had an ending and I haven’t heard a word since we took some of the child’s things back home’. From their perspective, they point to the need for: More involvement of foster parents in the matching process; including that foster parents need complete information to decide, for themselves, if they are the right family to meet the needs of specific children. Sign in here to access free tools such as favourites and alerts, or to access personal subscriptions, If you have access to journal content via a university, library or employer, sign in here, Research off-campus without worrying about access issues. Placement Planning meetings should be convened as part of the process of identifying and placing a child - as set out in the Placements in Foster Care Procedure and the Placements in Residential Care Procedure. The terms ‘help’ and ‘save’ were frequently used. Even in qualitative studies of placement breakdown, foster parents often cite children’s behaviour problems as a reason for breakdown. Doctor of Clinical Psychology . Foster care placement breakdown. Cited by lists all citing articles based on Crossref citations.Articles with the Crossref icon will open in a new tab. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews with foster parents in their homes. The sample consisted of all 136 foster children in the region, born 1980–1992, who on their 12th birthday had been in the same foster family for at least 4 years. The results of this study indicate that the variables related to breakdown depend on the placement modality, either in foster care or kinship care. So I think it’s become a lifestyle’. Placement breakdown is experienced negatively and is strongly perceived as a failure leaving long-lasting and strongly felt emotions. Sarah Louise Lamswood . Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 10 (4) (1993), pp. ‘It started having an effect on our own child. Key carer factors identified in this study as being associated with foster-care placement breakdown include lower levels of cognitive empathy, lower levels of family support, less positive relationship of the foster-carer with their partner and lower satisfaction with care-giving and the role of being a foster-carer. For more information view the SAGE Journals Sharing page. ‘We’ve had a lot [of children] over the years. Respondents were asked about their thoughts about being foster parents generally and about their experiences of placement breakdown. View or download all content the institution has subscribed to. Most foster parents said that they believed breakdown could have been avoided in some circumstances: if they had received clearer information about the child prior to the placement, if they had received support and relief during the placement, and if all parties to the placement sat down and discussed alternatives prior to a placement ending. Even the foster parents’ descriptions of the children’s parents spanned the range of seeing their relationship as working well to seeing it as a great source of stress. Separation from siblings was associated with instability in a majority of studies, though conflict between siblings in a foster placement may also contribute to placement breakdown… However, the children placed with them are, at a group level, different from other children, and this may make it more difficult to normalize the parenting role of foster parents. It was a bit of a respite for me at that moment’. A crisis in foster care is suggested by many of the national and international published reports. All respondents had biological children. BSc (Hons) June 2015 These approaches in quantitative research risk, as Engelund et al. Breakdown of Foster Care Placement: Carer Perspectives and System Factors. Although the placement may have ended in breakdown, foster parents described a continuing relationship between their families and child which was of lasting significance. We wouldn’t expect any single factor (or combination of factors) to trigger a placement breakdown. Given the poor outcomes associated with placement breakdown, research has focused on identifying risk factors associated with breakdown (Rostill-Brookes et al., 2011) and studies have, to a large extent been based on the examination of social work case files (Egelund et al., 2010; Unrau, 2007). Placements of children and young people may be in either foster care or institutional settings although most, regardless of age, are placed in foster care settings. One problem shared by child welfare systems across the western world is placement breakdown – the unexpected, unplanned and sudden termination of a child’s placement, whether in foster care or in another care arrangement (Unrau, 2007). ‘Social services directed me to CYP and CYP directed to social services and they can’t work together’. The stress that can come with being a foster parent, for example coping with hyperactivity in a child, difficulties in their relations with the biological parents, and problems in contact with social workers can lead to an increased feeling of stress and thus increase the risk of placement breakdown (Farmer et al., 2005). You can be signed in via any or all of the methods shown below at the same time. Those who met the inclusion criteria and who wanted to participate in the study contacted the primary researcher. ‘But it is kind of nice because I have contact with her and she calls from time to time so actually we’ve found our way back to staying in contact’. Foster parents’ decisions to terminate placements are preceded by a substantial period of weighing alternatives (Wilson et al., 2000) and regardless of the reasons given, placement breakdown is described as a difficult experience, marked by guilt and a sense of failure in trying to make a difference in a child’s life (Rostill-Brookes et al., 2011). Our focus is thus on the meaning that our respondents give to events preceding and surrounding placement breakdown rather than on risk factors associated with this phenomenon. I declare that Factors contributing to the breakdown of foster care placements: “ oster parents’ F and adolescents’ perspectives” is my own work and that all the sources that I have used or quoted have been indicated and acknowledged by means of complete references. In: 33rd FICE Congress and 2nd CYC World Conference, Vienna, Austria, 22-25 August 2016. (2010) explain, positing placement instability as a single event rather than a process and that risk factors for placement breakdown become reduced to qualities within individuals instead of being seen as something that is shaped in the interaction between people and context. Our study is supported by previous research (e.g. Login failed. ", Although custody of a child in care for longer than three years can be transferred to the foster parents, this is an option that is rarely exercised (Andersson, 2006). The child’s biological parents and contact between the child and parents was described by some as an asset and by others as a strain. By closing this message, you are consenting to our use of cookies. Foster care is however a vulnerable intervention, and questions can be raised as to its efficacy. Christiansen et al., 2010) which indicates that the success of the mission of a foster parent is made possible through the provision of information and support about the child and the foster parent role, having a good relationship to a social worker, and receiving individualized support at the right times. Emotional scars were left upon foster parents as well as influencing their attitudes toward future foster caring. The first Placement Planning Meeting in relation to a placement should be held before the placement. I have read and accept the terms and conditions, View permissions information for this article. Although research has pointed to the many problems associated with placement instability and breakdown, less is known about foster parents’ experiences. ‘We called and called but we never got any support. Include them in the child’s care review in order for all to understand why the placement ended and to determine if and how contact may continue between the child and the foster home. We wish to thank the Children’s Welfare Foundation Sweden and The Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research for financing this study. This need for support was connected to a desire that a child be referred to additional treatment services (e.g. Due to the lack of research directly conducted with foster-carers a narrative approach was applied to interviews of a placement breakdown with foster carers. In one case, the foster parents described how their biological children were being negatively impacted by the placement. ‘I mean they must think of us as huge traitors and that’s what has hurt me the most that they feel like we somehow abandoned them’, or ‘Somehow it feels like we gave up even if that wasn’t our intention. I mean we weren’t expecting it but it has been continuous the whole time’ or, ‘Now so many children and young people have come and gone that it isn’t strange for anyone in the family if a new child arrives. Placements broke down mainly because of behavioural problems of the foster child, foster parents' parenting problems, and conflicts between birth and foster parents. ‘We never did have an ending with social services. While the overall numbers of children in care have varied over the years, the use of care placements have been a stable part of the child welfare system since its foundation. In case of a breakdown, the latter services decide in agreement with the foster care services whether a new foster care placement or residential care is the most appropriate. At least in the perception of these foster parents, there is a discrepancy between the statutory obligations of the social services toward the foster home and the foster parents’ perceptions of the kind of information and support they actually receive. Three foster parents described their hurt feelings and connected them to the failure of their mission. Foster parents described with dissatisfaction the level of support they received after placement breakdown. Breakdown is defined as an unintentionally and prematurely terminated placement for reasons such as: behavioural problems, conflicts between biological and foster parents, foster parents ask for time-out, etc. Placement breakdown is a frequently occurring phenomenon in the context of out-of-home care. ‘She still wanted to visit us and could do it sometimes. Swedish and international research on placement breakdown has shown that older children (Smith et al., 2001), the presence of behaviour problems (Newton et al., 2000; Park and Ryan, 2009; Sallnäs et al., 2004; Ward, 2009) and previous moves within the care system (Oosterman et al., 2007; Vinnerljung et al., 2001) are associated with a significantly higher risk of breakdown. Foster children with behavioural problems, older foster children, foster children denied treatment, and foster children in care because of sexual abuse were more at risk of breakdown. The road to breakdown also included a lack of knowledge about the child’s needs, insufficient understanding of the placement process, a difficult relationship with the social worker, and a lack of individualized service with the right supports at the right time. Regardless of these different starting points, our respondents described wanting to care for a child, to do a good deed and, most importantly, to offer a family. Part two is an empirical study of foster-carers experiences of placement that has broken down recently. December 2003; Australian Social Work 56(4):329 - 340; DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0748.2003.00095.x. However, interviews with foster parents have shown that it is not just the child’s behaviour that is an important consideration but rather it is in combination with ‘system failures’ – including a lack of pertinent information about the child prior to placement and a lack of supports to foster families when they asked for help – that placements, which otherwise could be saved, end up in unnecessary breakdown (Gilbertson and Barber, 2003). Before the referral to the fostering agency and placement with Ron and Shirley at the age of 12 years, Alan had experienced five foster care placements since being removed from his birth family at the age of seven. This is remarkable, as not only Rock et al., but also Winokur et al. Foster parents describe the … We used a regional sample of children in long‐term foster care to investigate the prevalence of placement breakdown in adolescence, and to assess risk factors/risk markers for placement disruption. kinship carers tend to offer care unconditionally and feel a sense of binding duty to the relative in their care. Data were collected on the process of placement deterioration, the incident(s) that precipitated the decision to end placement, formal carer support, and the carer's response to the breakdown. How to prevent breakdown of fostering relationships . Rather, their immediate response left a positive feeling in the foster home. The phenomenon of placement breakdown has been studied since the 1960s. In light of these challenges, support and relief are two prerequisites that foster parents say are necessary to handle their responsibilities. In this study, we carried out deep interviews with foster parents to understand how they experienced placement breakdown (phenomenology) and how they make sense of and apply meaning (interpretation) to their experience. Bombach, Clara, 2016. By continuing to browse Moreover, these placements have a significantly greater chance of breaking down compared with those involving children. In another case, the child was described as being passed back and forth between social services and CYP which led to neither the child nor the foster parents getting the supports they wanted. Knowledge regarding breakdown in Flanders remains scant. In: Building a Communty of Practice - the Residentical Child Care Project, Lake George NY, USA, 21-24 June 2016. being a Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of . To address this knowledge gap, we designed this study to investigate how Swedish foster parents described and understood placement breakdown and the care context in which it occurred. And, they did not want to take younger children for fear of becoming attached to – and then possibly losing – them. the foster care breakdown 99 Category 3.4.2 Contact with biological parents or relatives contributed to the foster care breakdown 100 Category 3.4.3 Abuse in the foster family contributed to the foster care breakdown 101 THEME 4: PREVENTING FOSTER CARE BREAKDOWN 104 Sub-theme 4.1 Involvement of the social worker can prevent foster care Year: 2020. Several families described how a child is always welcome to visit them and that one child requested to remain in contact after a breakdown. ‘Afterwards, I mean we had been feeling terrible for a long time and we both felt like it was too much’. A review of the literature has shown that placement breakdown is a frequently occurring phenomenon, occurring in between 20–40 percent of placements (Egelund, 2006; Oosterman et al., 2007). When a foster care placement comes to an end (reunification or breakdown), CFSS or juvenilejudges decideon the needoffuturehelp. In spite of the intentions of social services, the foster parents experienced a lack of information and communication and a failure to receive support and relief. Children in care in Sweden have largely experienced both significant problems in their home environments and have had serious behaviour problems before being placed in out-of-home care (Khoo et al., 2012). Disruption is the word used to describe a placement, which ends before it was supposed to. Although research has pointed to the many problems associated with placement instability and breakdown, less is known about foster parents’ experiences. This could be a grief too profound to live through one more time. How well the system succeeds in this task has long been open to question with research showing that there are serious and frequent problems and adverse outcomes for children who have been placed in public care (Vinnerljung and Sallnäs, 2008). Foster parents indicated that they would consider ending a placement if there was a danger to their family, if the child could not adapt to the home or if they could not handle the child's behavior. ‘In all her mails she says that she wants to come and visit and I always tell her that she is welcome – because she is. Our results are supported by Hyde and Kammerer’s (2009) study where children in care experienced changes in placement because of behaviour problems connected to difficult life situations prior to coming into care and foster parents’ uncertainty around how to manage their behaviour. Our approach is based on our interpretation of placement breakdown as an experience immediately and directly connected to the context of caring in which it occurs. Foster Care Placement Breakdown £ 350.00 We examine why the child may sabotage the placement, and how we can change our practice to a safe base model in order to re-engage with the child and stabilise the placement. ‘The social worker was sitting in some meeting so I left a message saying it was somewhat urgent. Active steps can be taken to reduce their likelihood, for example with careful matching and preparatory work with the child and proposed carers. And it was a bitter ending. At the same time, our study is about foster parents’ own perceptions and cannot say anything about the kinds of supports that social services actually offered. Where foster families initiated the breakdown, they described how they were overwhelmed by the child’s needs. We carried out deep interviews with foster parents to investigate connections between their caring experiences and experiences of placement breakdown. Sometimes the process doesn’t always work smoothly. They would have to telephone or email with specific questions as a way of guaranteeing an answer or, develop independence in seeking support from other services for example the child’s school or the local child and youth psychiatric unit. Pre‐service training of foster In: Building a Communty of Practice - the Residentical Child Care Project, Lake George NY, USA, 21-24 June 2016. Processes leading to foster care placement breakdown in Switzerland. Before going on to explore the consequences of this it is interesting to note some of the reasons that may lead to an abrupt end to a foster care placement: Reasons for Placement Breakdown: Research from the Social Care Institute for Excellence, ‘’Fostering Placement Stability” suggests five factors that appear to cause frequent placement moves: a change of social worker, i.e. Foster care is however an assailable intervention as is shown by the high number of placement disruptions. Breakdown was described as creating a large sore and discomfort as well as feelings that the foster parent was about to ‘break apart or go mad’. While foster carers experience the rewards and challenges of parenting vulnerable and complex adolescents, some of these placements break down. Many thanks also go to the foster parents in this study who opened up their hearts and homes and shared their experiences with us. 2 . A Placement Stability Meeting will be called when the placement of a child in foster care, residential or a semi-independence placement is considered to be at risk of disrupting. Respondents’ experiences as foster parents varied from one year to thirty years. This product could help you, Accessing resources off campus can be a challenge. Some declined this closing meeting because they were dissatisfied about how the whole situation was handled and really wanted a meeting with the child. Placement breakdown was followed by a sudden silence from social services. Assessing these factors is important when evaluating the appropriateness of a family foster care placement. ‘Then the social services called and called us into question and then they just told us, the child is not coming back to you (…) everything became one big…, I still think back and wonder what happened (…) we never really had any kind of ending where we like sat together and talked about what happened that day.’. ‘I think that it’s bad on the social services because they went and did things this way and then they dump the foster family and don’t care about them anymore. Nine participants from seven foster families in the UK were recruited. Access to society journal content varies across our titles. This article critically evaluates the factors associated with this particular outcome. Create a link to share a read only version of this article with your colleagues and friends. This site uses cookies. 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