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Enhancing Parent-Child Interaction During Foster Care Visits: Experimental Assessment of an Intervention


  Author: Wendy Haight, Sarah Mangelsdorf, James Black, Margaret Szewczyk, Sarah Schoppe, Grace Giorgio, Karen Madrigal, Lakshmi Tata
Publisher: Children and Family Research Center
Publication:
Document Date:                  2003
Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Attachment
Related Categories:
Children > Child Welfare
Children > Foster Home Care
Family Relations > Parent/Adult Child Relations
Parenthood/Childrearing > Foster Homes/Parenting
Parenthood/Childrearing > Motherhood
Parenthood/Childrearing > Nonparental Care
 

This report presents the results of an intervention that provided mothers whose children were in foster care with strategies for supporting and separating from their children at the end of a visit.  It found that these mothers had comparatively better skills for supporting their children, but that they were comparatively less engaged with their children during the final stage of their visit.

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