RT Journal Article
T1 A qualitative study about changes that parents experience through a pilot parenting support program to improve the quality of contact visits in non-kinship foster care
A1 González-Pasarín, Lucía
A1 Bernedo-Muñoz, Isabel María
A1 García-Martín, Miguel Ángel
K1 Educación de niños - Crianza
AB Despite the important impact that contact with birth parents during non-kinship foster care can have on a child’s well-being, there are few psychoeducational programs aimed at improving the quality of visits. The purpose of this study was to analyze the perceptions of changes in birth parents who have completed the first program of this kind to be developed in Spain, here in its pilot application. The aim of the program Visits: a context for family development is to improve parents’ emotional, communication, and parenting competences, and it comprises a total of seven sessions: six individual sessions that take place in the hour prior to consecutive scheduled visits with the child, and one group session involving all participating birth parents. A total of five families began the program, and three mothers completed all seven sessions. We conducted semi-structured interviews with mothers before and after the intervention so as to explore their perceptions regarding changes in their parenting competences and the quality of visits with their child. These data were complemented by participant-observer notes taken by one of the researchers during program sessions. Through content and semantic network analysis of interviews, we were able to identify changes in relation to five aspects of contact visits following participation in the parenting program. The results suggest that the program has the potential to enhance the parenting competences of birth mothers, to improve parentchild interaction during contact visits, and to encourage collaboration between the birth and foster families. These preliminary findings support the utility of the program for improving the quality of contact visits between birth parents and their children in non-kinship foster care.
PB Elsevier
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/26535
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/26535
LA eng
NO González-Pasarín, Bernedo, I. M., & García-Martín, M. A. (2023). A qualitative study about changes that parents experience through a pilot parenting support program to improve the quality of contact visits in non-kinship foster care. Children and Youth Services Review, 148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.106871
NO This study is part of an R + D Project of Excellence financed by the Spanish government (EDU201677094-P) [Proyecto I + D de Fomento de la Investigaci ón Científica y T écnica de Excelencia]. Funding for open access charge: Universidad de M ́alaga / CBUA.Funding for open access charge: Universidad de Málaga / CBUA
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
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