title: Cultivating Resilience in Families Who Foster: Understanding How Families Cope and Adapt Over Time.
abstract: Families who foster offer essential care for children and youth when their own parents are unable to provide for their safety and well-being. Foster caregivers face many challenges including increased workload, emotional distress, and the difficulties associated with health and mental health problems that are more common in children in foster care. Despite these stressors, many families are able to sustain fostering while maintaining or enhancing functioning of their unit. This qualitative study applied an adaptational process model of family resilience that emerged in previous studies to examine narratives of persistent, long-term, and multiple fostering experiences. Data corroborated previous research in two ways. Family resilience was again described as a transactional process of coping and adaptation that evolves over time. This process was cultivated through the activation of 10 family strengths that are important in different ways, during varied phases.
authors.affiliation: School of Social Work, Center for Child Well-Being, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ.
authors.forename: Cynthia A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Lietz
authors.affiliation: School of Social Work, Center for Child Well-Being, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ.
authors.forename: Francie J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Julien-Chinn
authors.affiliation: Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.
authors.forename: Jennifer M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Geiger
authors.affiliation: School of Social Work, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.
authors.forename: Megan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hayes Piel
mesh_terms: D022126:Access to Information; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D002662:Child Health Services; D002669:Child Welfare; D004644:Emotions; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005195:Family Relations / Q000523:psychology; D005581:Foster Home Care / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008960:Models, Psychological; D036301:Qualitative Research; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017748:Time Management
keywords: Coping and Adaptation; Family Resilience; Foster Families; afrontamiento y adaptación; familias adoptivas; resiliencia familiar; 家庭韧性; 寄养家庭; 应对和适应