Stabilitatea plasamentului&calitatea vieţii familiilor de plasament ale copiilor care prezintă comportament agresiv: eficienţa unui program parental
Placement Stability & Quality of Life in Foster Parents of Children Presenting Aggressive Behavior: Efficacy of a Cognitive-Behavioral Parent Program

Summary/Abstract: Foster children manifest a high incidence of behavioral problems compared with children from the general population and these problems are associated with unplanned disruptions in foster care placement. This study is investigating the efficacy of a short cognitive-behavioral parent program delivered to foster parents having in placement children with aggressive behavior for increasing placement stability and foster parent’s quality of life. The trial had a randomized controlled comparative pre-post design and the intervention combined components from the most validated parent programs for child defiant behavior in the literature, focusing on providing foster parents with child development information/ psycho-education, parental stress reduction, parenting skills, problems solving skills and efficient communication skills. Results are supporting the efficacy of the program in improving the quality of life in foster parents after the treatment, but no differences were found regarding placement stability between the parental cognitive-behavioral group and the waiting list. Implications of the findings are discussed in terms of incorporating the advancements in evidence-based parental interventions to making available viable parent interventions to Romanian Child Welfare System for reducing the rate of unplanned placement disruptions and increasing the quality of life in foster parents having in placement children presenting disruptive behavior.

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