...13 March, 2024. Foster Care Permanency: How its Absence Effects Youth Aging out of foster care and the brokenness within the foster care system have long-lasting effects on youth and families. At any given time in the United States, there are about 400,000 kids in care. The foster care system's goal is to unite youth back to their families, find permanent placement, and provide a safe, loving family for them in the meantime. Though there are good intentions, it still fails to fully achieve that, leaving lasting negative effects on its youth. According to the research, foster kids overall end up with much more negative outcomes, as the experience takes a toll on many aspects of their lives and can leave...
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...the delivery of safer care. Advocacy is an important role nurses must take for their patients. One example Makary (2012) provided was a nurse who will administer a medicine even if she believes it was ordered incorrectly, because that hospital...
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...living in unsafe home environments. It may be that they are being physically abused, emotionally abused, sexually abused, or neglected. Unfortunately, often the maltreatment is being done by the very person who was supposed to protect the child and keep them safe from harm. Neither one of the abuses being any less harmful to the child than any of the others, they all require action to be taken to preserve...
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...individuals or families as a whole to promote health and prevent disease (Edellman, 2004). The Gordon’s eleven Functional Health Patterns Assessment is a useful tool in assessing and evaluating the family’s developed health patterns, allowing the health care provider a better look at the overall health of a family as a whole. This allows for interventions to be uniquely crafted based on the findings of the assessment, ending with a result of better health outcomes. This paper will discuss the health habits and perceptions of the Foster family which was interviewed by this writer using Gordon’s assessment. Open ended questions were formulated to get an idea of how this family functions related to health promotion and the overall perception of their well being. The Foster family is a family consisting of a wife and husband in their fifties and a son who is 29. The wife and husband, M. Foster (wife), and D. Foster (husband) live alone, being that their child is grown and has moved out. The first assessment question is how the Foster family perceives their health. They view themselves as overall “healthy”. M. Foster states, “We try our best to stay healthy and do what we can. We try to eat good and exercise when we have time.” (M. Foster, personal communication, April 17, 2014) The Foster’s drink alcohol socially and neither one of them smoke tobacco products, although are former smokers. They do not get annual health screenings stating, “We really only go to the doctor when something...
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...Introduction On November 2007, The Oregonian began an investigation on children in foster care that had been prescribed powerful psychiatric medications. These medications were given four times the rate of other children. Concerns have been on the rise for children that are given “psychotropic medications”. Primarily the concern is high for those children in foster care, and who receive Medicaid, because they are in a system that has lost structure of the importance of the health and welfare of children and adolescence. Also because foster children are more likely to have more emotional and social issues, and need treatment to include psychiatric medication. Psychotropic medications are those that affect the nervous system and produce many changes in behavior or awareness. These medications can be given in the form of a tranquilizer, sedative or antidepressant. Changes should be made to prevent how children receive medications, to deter overdosing and complications from misdiagnosing the child’s illness. The effect that psychiatric drugs have on children can be sometimes upsetting. Psychiatric or psychotropic medications are used to help children with behavioral impairment. Changes should be made that will benefit children in situations as mentioned. Not only in foster care but any child that is prescribed psychiatric (psychotropic) medications. Implementing change that will assure children are prescribe the right mediations, and are given the medication according to their...
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...OUT OF FOSTER CARE NEEDS SUPPORT? 1 Why youth aging out of foster care needs support? Antoinette Knowlton Strayer University Critical Thinking PHI 210 Dr. Ed Yancy March 16, 2013 WHY YOUTH AGING OUT OF FOSTER CARE NEEDS SUPPORT? 2 Why youth aging out of foster care needs support? Can you imagine today is your 18th birthday and you have no biological family to give you heartfelt happy birthday wishes and hugs? No one there to give you the “you’re eighteen years old today now what are you going to do with your life speech”. Can you imagine coming to the realization that you’re on your own now. Not even the government is responsible for you anymore. You’re now a member of a group that most don’t think about. You’re aging out of foster care. In 2005, 24,407 youth did what’s known as “aged out” of foster care. Aging out of foster care means youth between the age of 18 and 23 is no longer receiving state care without being reunited with their families nor adopted before leaving care (Collins, Clay & Ward, 2008). This represents an increase of 41% since 1998. Now it’s over 25,000 a year of youth aging out of foster care (US Department of Health and Human Services, 2006). It’s all on you to decide what road you will travel. But, how do you determine your route towards your destiny. This can be a very scary and intimidating time for these youth as they transition from the life they knew in foster care versus...
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...definitions have as core concepts the notion of providing nursing care to families and family members (Braun & Foster, 2011). Nurses have realized what an important role that families can play in promoting positive health outcomes by getting them involved in patient care. With that said families are seen in the context as how the nurse sees them and works with them. There are several definitions and concepts of family and they are believed to contribute to education, research and theory. Family Concepts The first concept seen is family as context. The patients care is individually focused and the family is seen as a resource but also can be seen as a stressor. The patient is seen as the primary focus and the nurse includes the family if she sees it to be of value and beneficial to the patient as a resource. In regards to promoting health with this type of nursing the patients family becomes involved if the nurse sees it as a benefit and if so they can help the family and be a good resource for them. The second concept that is seen is family as sum. In this type of nursing the whole family is treated and when they have all been treated then care has been provided. Health promotion has been met when care is provided to all family members. The third concept is family subsystems which is the basis for interpersonal family nursing. Examples of this type of nursing would be marital relationships and care giver issues. The fourth concept is family as the client. The patient...
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...Emotional Strength in Ellen Foster Many people often go through eye-opening events that leave a permanent impact on their lives. You learn countless lessons throughout your life from childhood to adulthood. These lessons can be considered positive or negative and shape and mature you as a person. In Kaye Gibbon’s novel, Ellen Foster, the main character, Ellen, undergoes many negative and positive events in her childhood. These events are what builds and matures Ellen as a person. Throughout Ellen Foster’s childhood, she dealt with racism, an abusive and rocky childhood, and learned the importance of friendship. Ellen Foster suffered from sexual and mental abuse from her father growing up. Ellen’s Mama was sick for many years in the hospital...
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...change being a base to the communicative action theory, one must embrace its components. Community for change encompasses a variety of components, according to Phillips and Pittman (2015), it “… is linked to the concept of full participation, a consistent value...
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...to drugs, are unable to care for their infant daughter. She is taken from them by court order and placed in a foster home. The years pass. She comes to regard her foster parents as her real parents. They love her as they would their own daughter. When the child is 9 years old, the natural parents, rehabilitated from drugs, begin court action to regain custody. The case is decided in their favor. The child is returned to them, against her will. The courts in this case used the rule-based theory of the Three Primary Schools of Ethics to solve the problem. However, in my case I would have chosen the Care-based and Consequentialist theories. In the following paragraphs I will explain how to solve the dilemma using the care-based and consequentialist theory, explain the similarities and differences in both solutions, state whether the two schools of ethics are worthy of use in real life, and if Aristotle would have approved. The care-based theory is about putting yourself in someone else’s shoes. In this case this is what all adults need to do in order to understand all parties’ perspectives. The adult parties need to compromise. If that’s not possible, putting the love of the child first and allow the child to make the decision. Most likely the child would want to be with the foster parents and possibly have a relationship with the biological parents. All adults should look at the situation through her eyes and make a decision. The biological and foster parents should understand...
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...Aaliyah report not knowing the reason for being in foster care. Aaliyah explain being in foster care and no one explained why she is in foster care. The referring agency referral did not state how Aaliyah entered care. Aaliyah entered SAFY care from Palmetto County Behavioral Health. Per referring agency report, Aaliyah met the goals set for her and the facility has to offer. The referring agency did not report any behavioral problems; however, Aaliyah has a history of running away to meet adult men to have sex. PRS: Aaliyah has a history of displaying depression symptoms as deflated self-esteem, sadness and worthlessness. Aaliyah displays argumentative behaviors with peers and adults, resentful, blames others, deliberately ignores authority figures. Aaliyah lack coping skills to maintain healthy relationships, manage...
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...structural barriers to providing case management. The second theme was the lack of political influence by the nurses to change the structure of the organization; hence, their skills could be more completely utilized. Conclusions: Public health nurses who work in child welfare will need to systematically analyze their role within the organization and understand how to work in Òhost settings.Ó Nursing educators need to prepare public health nurses to work in non-health care settings by teaching organizational analysis. Key words: child protective services, organization, public health nursing. The purpose of this exploratory qualitative descriptive study was to investigate how public health nurses working in the child welfare system in a large metropolitan county in California view the organization. The study utilized the Bolman—Deal Organizational ModelÕs (1997) four frames for organizational analysis: symbolic, political, human resource, and structural. Public health nurses have joined social workers in providing care...
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...is one man and one woman raising their children together but in my opinion blood relations, legal documents, or a last name does not determine family. Traditionally, it would be shocking to think that a child could be raised in a gay household. But it is becoming more acceptable in our society to embrace different ideas of what a family should be, such as the acceptance of gay adoption. In the United States alone, the number of children forced into the foster care system is incredible. According to the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System Report there were about 423,773 children in foster care in the United States only a couple of years ago. (The Afcars Report, 2010). Gay parents are already serving as foster parents towards children; adoption is simply confirming the legal rights of the gay couple. The sexual orientation of a potential parent looking to adopt should not matter; the child should be placed into a home as long as it is in the best interest of the child. The number of children in foster care is high, but it can be significantly decreased if we allow children to be adopted by homosexuals. However, there are still negative attitudes towards gay and lesbian adoption, making the process of adoption harder for homosexuals. A study interviewing 776 adoptive parents showed the differences in attitudes between married fathers, married mothers, and single mothers “The factors determining negative judgment of gay adoption varied depending on each group...
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...The Impact of Foster Care on Child Development Demeka F. Gaddy Liberty University Abstract The foster care system was designed to provide a safe temporary placement for children who can no longer stay in the care of their parents or guardian. The overall goal of foster care is for the children to return home to their caregiver. If the caregiver fails to regain custody the child is placed in other living arrangements, to include foster homes. However there is a controversy over the effectiveness of the foster care system in regards to child development. Foster care has been linked to negative impacts in child development to include; physical and sexual abuse, attachment disorders, and behavioral problems that eventually lead to children being placed in multiple placements and in some cases the juvenile justice system,. Children who are in foster care are a vulnerable group due to the being removed from their home, in some cases abruptly. It has been proven that the longer children living in foster care are subject to negative development more than children who do not live in foster care. Based on these factors the foster care system needs to focus more on the needs of the child so that positive development can occur. Keywords: child welfare, abuse, child development The Negative Impacts of Foster Care on Child Development The foster care system was designed to provide a safety net for children and families and to reunite children with their biological parents if possible...
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...and articles. Most of her work since 2000 has been on her theory and philosophy of caring. She has traveled and lectured across the world, studying and lecturing on her theories on nursing. In 1980, Watson and her associates started the “Center for Human Caring” at the University of Colorado (Alligood & Toomey, 2010, p. 92). Watson wrote her first book on the philosophy and science of nursing in 1979. She developed “10 carative factors”, which Watson describes as being the main ideas of nursing. The carative factors consider the persons involved in practice of caring. She believes in instilling faith and hope and being sensitive to self and others. Watson’s carative factors also are based on developing a trusting relationship with the person or patient. The creation of a healing environment that respects the wholeness and dignity of the person is a carative factor. Watson also looks at the human beings as a whole, consisting of body, mind and soul. She also believes in spirituality of all human beings. She believes in “transpersonal nursing-caring healing” moments that allow for caring and healing to occur (Alligood 2010, p. 120). Watson defined health as a “harmony between self and other and between self and nature and openness to increased possibility” (Alligood, 2010, p. 122). Illness...
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