Advanced Web-Based Training for Adoptive Parents of Special Needs Children

针对特殊需要儿童的养父母的高级网络培训

• 批准号: 7326933
• 负责人: Richard J. Delaney
• 金额: $ 16.97万
• 依托单位: NORTHWEST MEDIA, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-06 至 2009-03-07
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7326933
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Adoptive placement of special needs foster children remains a high priority for child welfare agencies across the country. These children often show significant emotional and behavioral problems that challenge their parents long after the legalization of the adoption. Indeed, increasingly higher rates of unsuccessful (i.e., disrupted or legally dissolved) adoptions are associated with special needs placements. Special needs problems are emotionally expensive to both the child and parents and ultimately financially expensive to the agency and the state. Despite the passage of the Adoption and Safe Families Act in 1997, there are approximately 119,000 "waiting" foster children, half of them ten years or older. These children are among the most difficult to place; their adoptive parents require specific and effective trainings. Research provides mounting evidence that post-adoptive services, notably ongoing adoptive parent training, are positively correlated with satisfying, stable, and intact adoptive placements. However, the parent training components of these services are not required and often not available throughout the US. The available courses are inconsistent in quality and focus. We propose developing a series of 14 interactive online courses/workshops designed to provide parents of special needs/ older-aged adopted children with high quality, readily available, intermediate and advanced training. The training with a practical approach would address a spectrum of serious behavior problems that adopted older and/or special needs children often exhibit. These problems may include sexualized behavior, self-harm, lying, eating disorders, sleep problems, running away, stealing, ADHD, or RAD. Courses will also be offered on positive and safe parenting techniques, working with birth families, and raising transracial/transcultural adopted children. In Phase I we will develop and evaluate a course/workshop on adopted children's' anger problems. The feasibility study will test the effectiveness of the course/workshop on increasing parents' knowledge of anger problems compared with a text-only online version of the program and a no-treatment control group. The training will be offered online by Northwest Media. Subjects participating in this project will gain important information about parenting special needs adoptive children that may help them to better understand and manage these children's disturbed behaviors. As a result, the quality of parent-child relationships in adoptive families could improve, which could help stabilize adoptive placements and improve children's short- and long-term mental health outcomes.

描述（由申请人提供）：特殊需要寄养儿童的收养仍然是全国儿童福利机构的高度优先事项。这些孩子经常表现出严重的情绪和行为问题，在收养合法化很久之后，这些问题给他们的父母带来了挑战。事实上，越来越高的不成功（即中断或合法解散）收养率与特殊需要安置有关。特殊需求问题对儿童和父母来说在情感上都代价高昂，最终对机构和国家来说在经济上代价高昂。尽管《收养和安全家庭法》于 1997 年获得通过，但仍有大约 119,000 名“等待”寄养儿童，其中一半十岁或以上。这些孩子是最难安置的孩子之一；他们的养父母需要具体而有效的培训。研究提供了越来越多的证据表明，收养后服务，特别是持续的收养父母培训，与令人满意、稳定和完整的收养安置呈正相关。然而，这些服务的家长培训部分不是必需的，而且在美国各地通常无法提供。可用课程的质量和重点不一致。我们建议开发一系列 14 个互动在线课程/研讨会，旨在为有特殊需要的父母/老年收养儿童提供高质量、随时可用的中级和高级培训。采用实用方法的培训将解决收养年龄较大和/或有特殊需要的儿童经常表现出的一系列严重行为问题。这些问题可能包括性行为、自残、撒谎、饮食失调、睡眠问题、逃跑、偷窃、多动症或快速注意力缺陷障碍。还将提供有关积极和安全的养育技巧、与亲生家庭合作以及抚养跨种族/跨文化收养儿童的课程。在第一阶段，我们将开发和评估关于被收养儿童的愤怒问题的课程/研讨会。可行性研究将测试该课程/讲习班与纯文本在线版本和不接受治疗的对照组相比，在提高家长对愤怒问题的了解方面的有效性。该培训将由西北媒体在线提供。参与该项目的受试者将获得有关养育特殊需要收养儿童的重要信息，这可能有助于他们更好地理解和管理这些儿童的不安行为。因此，收养家庭中亲子关系的质量可以得到改善，这有助于稳定收养安置并改善儿童的短期和长期心理健康结果。