title: Catchers in the rye: treatment foster parents as a system of care.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Similar to the children in J. D. Salinger's novel, The Catcher in the Rye, youth in foster care face the specter of "going over the cliff."
  
  
  METHODS
  The empirical basis for "treatment foster care" is reviewed, concluding that treatment foster care is both a clinically and cost-effective form of community-based treatment.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Treatment foster parents prevent the fall of foster youth into the chasm of school failure, involvement with juvenile justice, and dependent living as adults.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Treatment foster care is an evidence-based approach that is less restrictive and offers troubled youth an opportunity to engage and grow within a family setting.
authors: University of Alabama School of Nursing, Birmingham, AL, USA. teena@adoption-research.org
authors: Teena M
authors: TM
authors: McGuinness
authors: Janyce G
authors: JG
authors: Dyer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005581:Foster Home Care; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing / Q000628:therapy*; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D012114:Residential Treatment