Promoting Resilience in Child Welfare

by Flynn, Robert J.; Dudding, Peter M.; Barber, James G.

• ISBN13: 9780776635538
• ISBN10: 0776635530
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-30
• Publisher: Univ of Ottawa Pr

Summary

Almost twenty years ago, conceptual work began in the United Kingdom on what was to become the international Looking After Children initiative. Looking After Children has had a profound influence on child welfare in Canada and some fifteen other countries, including the UK, Australia, Sweden, and Hungary. It has sharpened the developmental focus and improved the quality of services for children and adolescents who, because of abuse, neglect, extreme poverty, or other circumstances, live in out-of-home care. With its emphasis on high expectations, positive substitute parenting, and good short-term and long-term outcomes, Looking After Children has been an important vehicle for promoting resilience in child welfare, one that will remain a beneficial influence in Canada and internationally for many years to come.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Preface	xi
Part 1: Resilience Theory and Child Welfare Policy and Practice
Promoting resilience in development: A general framework for systems of care	3	(15)
Ann S. Masten
Promoting resilience and permanence in child welfare	18	(16)
Robbie Gilligan
Resilience theory and its relevance for child welfare practice	34	(18)
Ross A. Klein
Kathleen Kufeldt
Scott Rideout
Identity formation and cultural resilience in Aboriginal communities	52	(20)
Christopher E. Lalonde
Resilient society or resilient children? A comparison of child welfare service orientations in Sweden and Ontario, Canada	72	(22)
Evelyn G. Khoo
Lennart Nygren
Ulf Hyvonen
Is permanence necessary for resilience? Advice for policy makers	94	(21)
Ivan Brown
Sophie Leveille
Pamela Gough
Part 2: Resilience and Foster Care Research, Policy, and Practice
Foster care services for infants with prenatal substance exposure: Developing capacity in the caregiving environment	115	(16)
Lenora Marcellus
Growing up in care: Resilience and care outcomes	131	(26)
Elizabeth Fernandez
Psychosocial well-being and placement stability in foster care: Implications for policy and practice	157	(16)
James G. Barber
Paul H. Delfabbro
Positive life experiences that promote resilience in young people in care	173	(18)
Louise Legault
Shaye Moffat
Placement satisfection of young people living in foster or group homes	191	(15)
Robert J. Flynn
Annie Robitaille
Hayat Ghazal
Hope in young people in care: Role of active coping and other predictors	206	(10)
Angela Dumoulin
Robert J. Flynn
Participation in structured voluntary activities, substance use, and psychological outcomes in out-of-home care	216	(15)
Robert J. Flynn
Julie Beaulac
Jessica Vinograd
Foster parenting practices and foster youth outcomes	231	(17)
Julie Perkins-Mangulabnan
Robert J. Flynn
Costs and outcomes for looked-after children	248	(16)
Lisa Holmes
Harriet Ward
Resilience and young people leaving care: Implications for child welfare policy and practice in the UK	264	(17)
Mike Stein
Part 3: Resilience and the Implementation of Innovative Approaches to Child Welfare Policy and Practice
Training, experience, and supervision: Keys to enhancing the utility of the Assessment and Action Record in implementing Looking After Children	281	(16)
Sarah Pantin
Robert J. Flynn
Vivien Runnels
The needs of children in care and the Looking After Children approach: Steps towards promoting children's best interests	297	(19)
Marie Drolet
Melissa Sauve-Kobylecki
Managing change: Implementing Looking After Children at Prescott-Russell Services to Children and Adults	316	(21)
Raymond Lemay
Beverly Ann Byrne
Hayat Ghazal
On becoming strength based in service delivery and program culture	337	(15)
Simon Nuttgens
Developing a common assessment approach to the early identification of children in need: The Swansea, Wales, case study	352	(16)
Andrew Pithouse
Implementing Looking After Children as a collaborative practice and policy framework in Victoria, Australia	368	(22)
Ruth Champion
Gabrielle Burke
Promoting resilient outcomes in Australia with the Looking After Children Electronic System (LACES)	390	(11)
Deirdre Cheers
Jude Morwitzer
The Integrated Children's System: A resilient system to promote the development in children in care	401	(17)
Helen Jones
A synthesis of research findings and practice and policy suggestions for promoting resilient development among young people in care	418	(12)
James G. Barber
Author Index	430	(7)
Subject Index	437