Children and youth in foster care: Disentangling the relationship between problem behaviors and number of placements
Children and youth in foster care: Disentangling the relationship between problem behaviors and number of placements
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DOI：
10.1016/s0145-2134(00)00189-7
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发表时间：
2000-10-01
影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
Landsverk, JA
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作者：
Newton, RR;Litrownik, AJ;Landsverk, JA
目的：本研究的目的是对一群寄养儿童进行为期12个月的安置变化与问题行为之间的关系进行前瞻性研究。方法：样本包含415名青少年，并且是进入加利福尼亚州圣地亚哥寄养中心并在安置地点停留至少5个月的更大队列儿童的一部分。使用儿童行为检查表来评估行为问题。在进入寄养系统后的前18个月里，每一次安置的改变都从病例记录中提取出来。结果：研究结果表明，不稳定的安置经历对寄养儿童的内化和外化行为都有负面影响，并且经历过多次安置变化的儿童可能特别容易受到这些有害影响。最初的外化行为被证明是整个样本和那些最初在至少一个宽带CBCL量表上证明问题行为的子样本中安置变化的最强预测因子。我们的研究结果还表明，最初在CBCL上得分在正常范围内的儿童可能特别容易受到安置中断的有害影响。结论：在这些发现的基础上，我们提出了一种分析方法，将行为问题视为安置中断的原因和结果。没有表现出行为问题的儿童实际上可能构成了一个被忽视的群体，他们对自己的主要关系的多重破坏做出了越来越自我挫败的行为。(C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd.
Objective: The purpose of this research was to provide a prospective look at the relationship between change in placement and problem behaviors over a 12-month period among a cohort of foster children.Method: The sample contained 415 youth, and was part of a larger cohort of children who entered foster care in San Diego, California and remained in placement for at least 5 months. The Child Behavior Check List was used to assess behavior problems. Every change of placement during the first 18 months after entry into the foster care system was abstracted from case records.Results: The results suggest that volatile placement histories contribute negatively to both internalizing and externalizing behavior of foster children, and that children who experience numerous changes in placement may be at particularly high risk For these deleterious effects. Initial Externalizing behaviors proved to be the strongest predictor of placement changes for the entire sample and for a sub-sample of those who initially evidenced problem behaviors on at least one broad-band CBCL scale. Our findings also suggest that children who initially score within normal ranges on the CBCL may be particularly vulnerable to the detrimental effects of placement breakdowns.Conclusions: On the basis of these findings we argue for an analytical approach that views behavior problems as both a cause and as a consequence of placement disruption. Children who do not evidence behavior problems may in fact constitute a neglected population that responds to multiple disruptions of their primary relationships with increasingly self-defeating behaviors. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd.