title: The Foster Care Research Project: summary and analysis.
abstract: This paper analyzes and summarizes five more detailed papers describing the Foster Care Research Project (F.C.R.P.). This compared two (individual and group) models of foster care as to their effects on foster parent satisfaction, placement breakdowns and several indices of children's adjustment in care. The group model is described and contrasted with other "extended family" models, and the results of the project, which were mixed, are summarized. A critique of the experimental design suggests why clinical gains noted in the children were not borne out experimentally. Following a clinician's analysis of the process by which the group model operated (illustrated by clinical vignettes), the paper ends by describing the content and process of two support groups for the natural children of the foster parents.
authors.affiliation: Division of Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Ontario.
authors.forename: P D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Steinhauer
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Johnston
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Snowden
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Santa-Barbara
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kane
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Barker
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Hornick
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D002648:Child; D005581:Foster Home Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D009864:Ontario; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education*; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D012657:Self-Help Groups; D012949:Social Work, Psychiatric