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ArticleAttachment & human development2025

Enhancing visitation in the child welfare system for children separated from their birth parents: pilot results of fostering relationships.

Elisabeth Neely Burtch, Elisa Macera, Carole Shauffer, Aanya Gupta, Mary Dozier

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Article in Attachment & human development, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Elisabeth Neely BurtchDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA.
Elisa MaceraDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA.
Carole ShaufferQuality Parenting Initiative, Youth Law Center of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA.
Aanya GuptaDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA.
Mary DozierDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA.

Funding

Specialized services for high-risk birth parentsR01MH074374 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE · PI DOZIER, MARY, TOTTENHAM, NIM · 2006 to 2023
$10.1M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH074374
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

When children are placed into foster care, they experience separations from their primary attachment figures. Visitations are often arranged to provide ongoing birth parent-child contact. These visitations are complicated, though, because young children typically show a range of confusing behaviors when reunited. Fostering Relationships is a brief intervention designed to enhance visitation for the child, birth parent, and foster parent. We examined the effectiveness of the Fostering Relationships intervention through single subject analyses. We examined whether birth parents followed their child's lead during visitation sessions significantly more than they did not follow their child's lead. Six of seven birth parents who received the Fostering Relationships intervention followed their child's lead significantly more often than not, whereas only one of four of the control parents did so. Results are preliminary, but suggest that Fostering Relationships may be a promising intervention for enhancing visitation.

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Child WelfareFoster Home CareObject AttachmentParent-Child RelationsParentsAdultChildChild, PreschoolFemaleHumansInfantMalePilot Projectschild welfarefoster carepreventionSeparationvisitation

Identifiers

PMID39560636
PMCPMC12086262

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