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  • Developmental Psychology
  • Child Psychopathology
  • Attachment Theory

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  • Children in foster care often experience environmental stress and trauma, leading to a range of psychopathological symptoms.
  • Foster care aims to provide a secure environment for child development, but interactions with biological families may persist.
  • Understanding how foster children's behavior varies across different adult relationships is crucial for their well-being.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the interactive behaviors of a foster child with different types of caregivers: foster parent, mother, and father.
  • To analyze sequential behavioral patterns in day-to-day interactions to understand relationship dynamics.
  • To identify emotion regulation strategies employed by foster children in various caregiving contexts.

Main Methods:

  • Naturalistic observation of a 4-year-old foster child (Julia) interacting with her foster carer, mother, and father.
  • Recording and coding of verbal and non-verbal behaviors during spontaneous interactions.
  • Sequential behavioral pattern analysis using the THEME© program on a representative 2-minute interaction segment.

Main Results:

  • Significant differences in interaction patterns were observed depending on the caregiver.
  • Interactions with the foster carer were primarily object-play focused.
  • Interactions with the father involved more collaborative activities, while interactions with the mother showed distraction/avoidance behaviors.

Conclusions:

  • Foster children display distinct interactive processes with different adult figures.
  • Disengaging and self-exciting behaviors, identified as emotion regulation strategies, were prevalent across interactions.
  • The intensity of these strategies, particularly during parent-child sessions, suggests potential pathological relationship processes.