Foster Care Observation Summary

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Article Analysis I: Parent–Child Visits in Foster Care: Reaching Shared Goals and Expectations to Better Prepare Children and Parents for Visits. 1. Record a full reference citation in APA format. Nesmith, A. (2013). Parent–Child Visits in Foster Care: Reaching Shared Goals and Expectations to Better Prepare Children and Parents for Visits. Child Adolescence Social Work Journal, 237-255. 2. What is the general purpose of the study? What questions does it raise? This study centers on the concern that children, biological parents, and guardians involved in foster care visitations are inadequately prepared. The Familyconnect tool was designed to enrich visitation amongst foster children and their biological parents, as well improve the relationship between foster and biological parents. This study evaluates the effectiveness of the Familyconnect tool. After reading this article, one may question the social worker’s ability to effectively prepare families for visitation. One may also question the accuracy of this study, being that some participants did not meet the criteria, although they had formerly had some type of involvement in visitations through foster care. 3. Who or what was studied? This study evaluates the visiting tool, Familyconnect. Familyconnect was a two-year effort to develop and pilot a…show more content…
The study found that foster parents, social workers and children have an important influence over visits, as well as parents. Users found satisfaction in the guidebooks and noted that they were essential in coping with powerful emotions, perceptions about the purpose of visits, understanding each other’s perspectives, communication, and preparation. In fact, all pilot and response participants indicated using the guidebook at least once, most using it three or more times (92 %) (Nesmith,

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