1. Using Family Group Decision Making to Assist Informal Kinship Families.
- Author
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Feldman, Leonard H.
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FAMILIES , *GROUP decision making , *CAREGIVERS , *KINSHIP , *PARENTING & psychology , *PSYCHOLOGICAL stress research , *SOCIAL support , *PARENT-child relationships & psychology , *PSYCHOLOGY , *ANALYSIS of variance , *CHI-squared test , *CHILD welfare , *CHILDREN'S health , *DECISION making , *FOSTER home care , *HEALTH status indicators , *PATIENT-family relations , *PARENTING , *QUESTIONNAIRES , *SOCIAL case work , *SUCCESS , *T-test (Statistics) , *CONTROL groups - Abstract
This paper discusses a three-phased service model assessed using Family Group Decision Making (FGDM) conferences with informal kinship caregivers and their families. Gain scores were compared between Phase 2 (case management only) and Phase 3 families (case management with conference). Phase 3 families had higher gain scores than the Phase 2 families on measures of parenting stress, social support, family needs and child well-being, but the differences were not statistically significant. Phase 3 families had superior consumer feedback scores. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017