Foster Parent Intervention

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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness 2-componenet

intervention for biological and foster parents to improve parenting practices, co-

parent and child externalizing problems. Positive intervention effects following IY

implementation have been reported across low-income families of various ethnic

minority backgrounds. Children with externalizing disorders are at high risk for

long-term adverse consequences such as high rates of violent behavior,

delinquency, marked educational underachievement, and substance abuse. Parent

training based on social learning principles is one of the most successful

intervention in the treatment and prevention of child externalizing problems.

We could apply this information in our
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I think with the new idea with having the foster

parents and the biological parents working together as co-parents would be best

for the child. I said that because now the foster parent would know better and

what the child like and dislike. Also to have that relationship with the parents and

have someone that’s actually here for them would make them feel like they worth

something. Today it would better the violent behavior in the kids because they

would be getting the attention they was asking for. Recognizing the need to

improve child well-being in foster care is the first step. We can addressed the
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Some researcher may think it may be

difficult because sometime the child don’t open up and feel like the individual

therapy can’t relate because they don’t understand what they ben through. Its

cons and pros about that future research that could be study.

To conclude a joint parenting format as a viable intervention for improving

parenting and co-parenting practices for foster youth placed in regular foster

homes. By moving in this direction by developing a child-focus (skill building)

approach to complement parenting training for these families. Approaches would

provide the opportunity for analyses of pre intervention predictors of outcomes

and enable us to match children and their families with interventions that are most

likely to be helpful. The need to create a more collaborative parenting relationship

between biological and foster parents is particularly crucial in a social ecology

traditionally characterized as child-focused, and fragmented in its organizational

structure. The study find out that the foster child did improve in behavior and was

more active in school activity and the relationship with the biological and foster

parent grew