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Relationships Between Child Distress, Resource Utilization, and Foster/adoptive Parent Burnout

出版	Fuller Theological Seminary, School of Psychology, 2007
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=3yJotAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Given the number of children in foster/adoptive care in the United States (AFCARS report, 2005), it is important to understand what resources help children maintain consistent, stable placements. Cox, Orme, and Rhodes (2003) found that parents who have more resources are more likely to foster difficult children, thus it becomes important to identify these resources for both parents and children. The relationships between child distress, resource utilization, and foster/adoptive parent burnout were investigated. Specifically, foster/adoptive parents' and children's utilization of both informal and formal resources were evaluated. Positive relationships between parents' formal resource utilization since fostering/adopting and emotional exhaustion were revealed while inverse relationships between foster children's current resource utilization and emotional exhaustion were revealed. The relationship between child psychological distress and parent burnout was expected to be mediated by resource utilization. Although there was a reduction in the relationship between child distress and burnout when accounting for resource utilization, this reduction was not statistically significant and that parent's resource utilization since fostering/adopting the identified child and emotional exhaustion were positively rather than inversely related. Implications for resource utilization specific to foster/adoptive populations are explored.