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

This paper analyses how social support enhances family resilience in kinship foster families by involving the families in an educational group programme. Sixty-two kinship foster families from Spain participated in the research. The data were collected before the programme (interviews) and after the...

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Autores: Fuentes-Peláez, Núria, Balsells, M. Àngels, Fernández, J., Vaquero, E., Amorós, Pere
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/127924
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/127924
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Resiliència (Tret de la personalitat)
Família
Acolliment familiar
Resilience (Personality trait)
Family
Foster home care
Descrição
Resumo:This paper analyses how social support enhances family resilience in kinship foster families by involving the families in an educational group programme. Sixty-two kinship foster families from Spain participated in the research. The data were collected before the programme (interviews) and after the programme (interviews and focus groups), and it was analysed by content analysis with the program Atlas.ti. The results show that the factors that contribute most to the development of family resilience are (i) feeling able to look for solutions when faced with problems; (ii) an increase of their network of formal support; (iii) being able to offer support to other foster families; and (iv) feeling that the support they give to parents' foster children is socially recognized.