Promoting Inclusion through Foster Care for Children and Youth with Disabilities and Medical Fragility in Germany
Location
Virtual
Event Website
https://www.andrews.edu/ceis/sed/autlc/index.html
Start Date
27-3-2025 2:00 PM
End Date
27-3-2025 2:30 PM
Proposal for Presentation
Children affected by disability or medical fragility in foster care is a somewhat rare situation in Germany. Needing of Out-of-Home-Care, they are mostly cared for in residential homes. This study used in-depth interviews with foster caregivers and Grounded Theory to develop a theoretical structure of strategies used for coping. For a follow-up study 9-18 years later, 58% of the sample of caregivers were revisited. For informed Social Work, students should know that social parenting of children with disabilities reveals to have a great potential to support, protect, care and advocate for the children and to have an inclusive impact on society.
Promoting Inclusion through Foster Care for Children and Youth with Disabilities and Medical Fragility in Germany
Virtual
Children affected by disability or medical fragility in foster care is a somewhat rare situation in Germany. Needing of Out-of-Home-Care, they are mostly cared for in residential homes. This study used in-depth interviews with foster caregivers and Grounded Theory to develop a theoretical structure of strategies used for coping. For a follow-up study 9-18 years later, 58% of the sample of caregivers were revisited. For informed Social Work, students should know that social parenting of children with disabilities reveals to have a great potential to support, protect, care and advocate for the children and to have an inclusive impact on society.
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/autlc/2025/breakouts/18