A shared experience of fragmentation: Making sense of foster placement breakdown

• Published in: Clinical child psychology and psychiatry Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 103 - 127
• Main Authors: Rostill-Brookes, Helen, Larkin, Michael, Toms, Amy, Churchman, Clare
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.01.2011; Sage; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Biological and medical sciences; Breakdown; Caregivers - psychology; Child; Child placement; Discourses; Emotional experiences; Emotional responses; Emotions; England; Female; Focus Groups; Foster care; Foster carers; Foster Home Care - psychology; Health staff related problems. Vocational training; Humans; Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Miscellaneous; Miscommunication; Occupational roles; Perception; Policy making; Protective factors; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Psychosocial factors; Risk factors; Segmentation; Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry; Social services; Social Work; Social workers; Stakeholders; Treatment Failure; Trust; Youth; United Kingdom; Europe; England; multiple perspectives; placement; breakdown; care; Human; Social environment; Affect affectivity; Professional experience; Meaning making; Health staff; Subjective experience; Mental health; Foster care placement; Emotion emotionality; Psychological effect; Recommendation; Health policy; Social worker; Child; Public health; Comparative study

Multiple placement transitions have been associated with poorer psychosocial outcomes for children growing up in local authority care. However, although there is an expanding literature examining the risk and protective factors connected with placement breakdown, very few studies have explored the q...