This review examined risk and protective factors associated with placement breakdown
across k= 26 studies of 20,650 children in foster families. A series of meta-analyses were …

Foster care is the preferred type of out-of-home placement for children and youth when they
are not able to live with their own parents. However, placement instability, and its effect on …

Research has highlighted the many challenges that foster carers face in caring for children
who have experienced adversity and has charted a growing mismatch between the numbers …

The files of 419 children in family foster care and kinship foster care were used in a
retrospective longitudinal design study that examined their placement histories in child …

This article deals with the problem of breakdown in different types of out‐of‐home care
(foster care/residential care) for Swedish teenagers. How often are such placements …

This study investigates what characteristics explain placement instability for children in foster
care. Using a matched sample of children experiencing stable and unstable placements …

Children placed in foster care families usually continue to see their birth parents in
supervised and home visits. These children deal with the fact that they belonged to two …

This study examines how social workers assess a child's circumstances in child welfare
social work. The study focuses on the contents and dimensions of an assessment as well as …

Foster care placements, especially placements with kin, are the first option of choice when
parents cannot maintain the care for their children. Therefore, an evaluation of this type of …

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the perspectives through which research findings
about placement moves in foster care are communicated in the published literature. More …