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Joseph M Price1, Scott Roesch, Natalia E Walsh

  • 1Child and Adolescent Services Research Center, 3665 Kearny Villa Rd., Suite 200, San Diego, CA, 92123, USA, jmprice@mail.sdsu.edu.

Prevention Science : the Official Journal of the Society for Prevention Research
|November 25, 2014
PubMed

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The Keeping Foster Parents Trained and Supported (KEEP) intervention effectively reduces externalizing behaviors in children in foster care. This program also lowers parental stress and benefits multiple children within the same household.

Area of Science:

  • Child Psychology
  • Family Interventions
  • Child Welfare Research

Background:

  • Children in foster care frequently exhibit externalizing behaviors, increasing placement instability.
  • Existing interventions need to address behavior management and caregiver stress effectively.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the effectiveness of the Keeping Foster Parents Trained and Supported (KEEP) intervention in reducing child behavior problems.
  • To assess if KEEP's benefits extend to multiple children in a single foster home.
  • To determine KEEP's impact on parental stress related to child behavior.

Main Methods:

  • Randomized controlled trial involving 335 foster and kinship families with children aged 5-12.
  • Community agency delivery of the KEEP intervention compared to a control group.
  • Analysis of child behavior problems and parental stress levels.

Main Results:

  • The KEEP intervention significantly reduced externalizing behavior problems in children.
  • KEEP demonstrated effectiveness in managing behaviors of multiple children within the same home.
  • Parental stress associated with child behavior problems was notably reduced.

Conclusions:

  • The KEEP intervention is an effective model for community-based child welfare settings.
  • KEEP shows promise for improving outcomes for children in foster care and their caregivers.
  • This training equips foster parents with strategies to manage challenging child behaviors and reduce stress.

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