The social support in kinship foster care: a way to enhance resilience

This paper analyses how social support enhances family resilience inkinship foster families by involving the families in an educationalgroup programme. Sixty-two kinship foster families from Spain par-ticipated in the research. The data were collected before the pro-gramme (interviews) and after the...

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Autores: Fuentes-Peláez, Núria, Balsells, M. Àngels, Fernández, Josefina, Vaquero Tió, Eduard, Amorós, Pere
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10459.1/48356
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12182
http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/48356
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Kinship foster care
Resilience
Social support
Training (support programme)
Acolliment familiar
Infants -- Assistència institucional
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Sumario:This paper analyses how social support enhances family resilience inkinship foster families by involving the families in an educationalgroup programme. Sixty-two kinship foster families from Spain par-ticipated in the research. The data were collected before the pro-gramme (interviews) and after the programme (interviews and focusgroups), and it was analysed by content analysis with the programAtlas.ti. The results show that the factors that contribute most to thedevelopment of family resilience are (i) feeling able to look forsolutions when faced with problems; (ii) an increase of their networkof formal support; (iii) being able to offer support to other fosterfamilies; and (iv) feeling that the support they give to parents’ fosterchildren is socially recognized