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The Foster Family Process to Maintain the Will to Remain in Foster Care—Implications for a Sustainable Programme

2020-09-25Artigo de investigação Acesso aberto
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datacite.subject.fosCiências Sociais
datacite.subject.sdg04:Educação de Qualidade
datacite.subject.sdg05:Igualdade de Género
dc.contributor.authorElisete Diogoen_US
dc.contributor.authorFrancisco Brancoen_US
dc.date.accessioned2025-12-12T11:31:15Z
dc.date.available2025-12-12T11:31:15Z
dc.date.issued2020-09-25en_US
dc.date.updated2025-12-12T11:12:29Z
dc.description.abstractThere were 7032 children in out-of-home care in 2018 in Portugal. Of these, only 2.8% were in foster care, despite this being the recommended response according to legal regulations. It is critical that more families be encouraged to become foster carers and also that experienced carers stay in the system to create a sustainable programme. How is the will to foster a child maintained? What can we learn from foster families’ experiences to improve childcare and the child protection system? The methodology of this study was based on interviews with foster carers. The analysis was inspired by grounded theory. We found three types of foster families, classified according to their will to leave or remain in foster care—unconditional, hesitant, or retired. The results suggest that the key elements for foster carers to remain in the foster care system are (i) their level of satisfaction with how the previous placement concluded, (ii) keeping in touch with the ex-foster child, (iii) the feeling of acknowledgement by all the stakeholders, and (iv) the quality of social services as well as the support of the professional teams.eng
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dc.identifier.citationDiogo, E.; Branco, F. The Foster Family Process to Maintain the Will to Remain in Foster Care—Implications for a Sustainable Programme. Sustainability 2020, 12, 7942. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12197942
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/su12197942en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/SU12197942en_US
dc.identifier.eid2-s2.0-85092912816en_US
dc.identifier.slugcv-prod-2542541
dc.identifier.source-work-id57744729-396d-4f89-b17a-60cf185c1e0fen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/60341
dc.identifier.wos000587228400001en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000587228400001en_US
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectfoster care
dc.subjectfoster family
dc.subjectfoster family remain
dc.subjectsustainability
dc.subjectchild welfare system
dc.subjectPortugal
dc.titleThe Foster Family Process to Maintain the Will to Remain in Foster Care—Implications for a Sustainable Programmeen_US
dc.typeresearch articleen_US
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oaire.citation.endPage7942
oaire.citation.issue19en_US
oaire.citation.startPage7942
oaire.citation.titleSustainabilityen_US
oaire.citation.volume12en_US
oaire.versionhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85
rcaap.cv.cienciaid3D16-5F3F-DD07 | elisete diogo
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