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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.
Keywords : foster children, disruptive behavior, cognitive-behavioral parent program
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Copiii institulionalizali înregislreaza niveluri înalte ale problemelor comportamentale §i emotionale (George 1970 ; Rowe & Lambert 1973 ; Keane 1983 ; Fratter, Rowe, Sapsford et al. , 1991) în comparatie cu copiii din populaba generala (McCann, James, Wilson et al., 1996), ìn special incidenìa problemelor comportamentale fìind ridicala (Dimigen, Del Priore, Butler et al., 1999). Frinire multiplele molive ale alentiei care ar merila a fi acordala problemelor comporlamenlale esle §i faplul ca acestea sunl corelale cu renunjarea neplanifìcala la plasamenl (Borland, O'Hara & Triseliolis, 1991).
In ullima decada a secolului XX, Romania a devenil cunoscula penlru problemele pe care Ie avea ìn sislemul de prolecìie a copilului. De§i ìn acesl domeniu au fosl §i ramân o serie de dificuílati, lolu§i, in ullimii 20 de ani ìn Romania au avul loe mulle inovaìii in dezvollarea sociala (Nelson, Zeanah, Fox et al., 2007). In special, organizatiile nonguvernamenlale au desfa§ural sau au asislal procesul de dezvollare a programelor de conservare a familiei, de reunificare a familiei, de...