ArticleChild and adolescent psychiatry and mental health2017
Children's mental health problems and their relation to parental stress in foster mothers and fathers.
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- The mental health outcomes of foster parents following parenting training: systematic review and meta-analysis protocol.Systematic reviews · 2025Article
- Evaluating the Impact of Pediatric Digital Mental Health Care on Caregiver Burnout and Absenteeism: Longitudinal Observational Study.JMIR pediatrics and parenting · 2025Article
- Dyadic Reports of Interparental Relationship Quality and Intentions to Continue Fostering Among Coupled Foster Caregivers.Family process · 2025Article
- Parenting stress in parents with and without a mental illness and its relationship to psychopathology in children: a multimodal examination.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Parenting stress, dyadic coping and endocrine markers of stress and resilience in foster and biological mothers.PloS one · 2024Article
- Longitudinal Associations Between Parenting and Child Behaviour Problems and the Moderating Effect of Child Callous Unemotional Traits in Foster and Biological Families.Child psychiatry and human development · 2023Article
- Sleep problems and parental stress among caregivers of children and adolescents enrolled in a digital mental health intervention.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2023Article
- School's out: Parenting stress and screen time use in school-age children during the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of affective disorders reports · 2021Article
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- Mental Health Disorders among Children and Associated Parental Stress: A Cross-Sectional Study in Pediatric OPD of Burdwan Medical College, West Bengal.Indian journal of community medicine : official publication of Indian Association of Preventive & Social MedicineArticle
- General Cognitive Ability as an Early Indicator of Problem Behavior Among Toddlers in Foster Care.Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBPArticle
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Abstract
backgroundThis study focuses on children living in foster families with a history of maltreatment or neglect. These children often show adverse mental health outcomes reflected in increased externalizing and internalizing problems. It is expected that these adverse outcomes are associated with increased parental stress levels experienced by foster mothers as well as foster fathers.
methodsThe study sample included 79 children living in foster families and 140 children living in biological families as comparison group. The age of the children ranged from 2 to 7 years. Mental health problems were assessed with the Child Behavior Checklist, while parenting stress was measured with a parenting stress questionnaire including subscales on the amount of experienced stress and the amount of perceived support. The Child Behavior Checklist assessments were based mainly on maternal reports, while the parental stress assessments were based on maternal as well as paternal reports.
resultsAs expected the results showed increased externalizing and internalizing scores for the foster children accompanied by increased parental stress experiences in the foster family sample (however only in the maternal, but not in the paternal stress reports). The stress differences between the foster and biological family groups disappeared, when the children's mental health problem scores were included as covariates. Moreover, especially the externalizing scores were strong predictors of parental stress in both, the groups of foster and biological parents. The amount of perceived social support was associated with reduced parental stress, but only in the group of biological fathers.
conclusionThe emergence of parental stress in biological as well as foster parents is closely related to child characteristics (mainly externalizing child problems). Possible implications for the reduction of parental stress are discussed as a consequence of the present results.
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