Developing an Intervention to Enhance Parental Monitoring in Family Foster Care
(2023) In Research on Social Work Practice 33(6). p.666-678- Abstract
Purpose: To fulfill their supervision and counseling responsibilities to foster parents, social workers need an effective way to indirectly monitor foster children's mental health and learning ability within a model of tripartite parenthood. This article describes how we are developing an intervention aimed at enhancing parental monitoring as a protective factor in family foster care. Methods: Focusing on the initial parts of Fraser et al.'s stepwise model for intervention development and drawing on ongoing research, we describe the main challenges faced in developing a program theory of parental monitoring. Results: The product is a manual that can transform the agenda of counseling meetings based on the following pre-requisites:... (More)
Purpose: To fulfill their supervision and counseling responsibilities to foster parents, social workers need an effective way to indirectly monitor foster children's mental health and learning ability within a model of tripartite parenthood. This article describes how we are developing an intervention aimed at enhancing parental monitoring as a protective factor in family foster care. Methods: Focusing on the initial parts of Fraser et al.'s stepwise model for intervention development and drawing on ongoing research, we describe the main challenges faced in developing a program theory of parental monitoring. Results: The product is a manual that can transform the agenda of counseling meetings based on the following pre-requisites: appropriate standardized instruments, a common digital platform, training social workers, and being responsive to municipal differences. Conclusion: Our experience thus far allows us to be cautiously optimistic about strengthening parental monitoring in family foster care.
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- Baviskar, Siddhartha ; Bergström, Martin LU ; Danneskiold-Samsøe, Sofie ; Sjö, Nina Madsen ; Sørensen, Kresta Munkholt and Jacobsen, Charlotte Bredahl
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- 2023
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- family foster care, intervention, mental health and learning ability, parental monitoring, standardized instruments
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- Research on Social Work Practice
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- 33
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- 6
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- 13 pages
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- SAGE Publications
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- scopus:85153085630
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- 1049-7315
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- 10.1177/10497315231168324
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- English
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