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Buehler, C., Rhodes, K. W., Orme, J. G., & Cuddeback, G. (2006). The potential for successful family foster care: conceptualizing competency domains for foster parents. Child welfare, 85(3), 523-58.
Buehler, Cheryl, et al. "The potential for successful family foster care: conceptualizing competency domains for foster parents." Child welfare vol. 85,3 (2006): 523-58.
Buehler C, Rhodes KW, Orme JG, Cuddeback G. The potential for successful family foster care: conceptualizing competency domains for foster parents. Child Welfare. 2006 May-Jun;85(3):523-58. PMID: 16999384.
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Child Welfare. 2006 May-Jun;85(3):523-58.

The potential for successful family foster care: conceptualizing competency domains for foster parents.

Child welfare

Cheryl Buehler, Kathryn W Rhodes, John G Orme, Gary Cuddeback

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  1. University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, USA.

PMID: 16999384

Abstract

The potential to foster successfully starts with developing and supporting competency in 12 domains: providing a safe and secure environment, providing a nurturing environment, promoting educational attainment and success, meeting physical and mental healthcare needs, promoting social and emotional development, supporting diversity and children's cultural needs, supporting permanency planning, managing ambiguity and loss for the foster child and family, growing as a foster parent, managing the demands of fostering on personal and familial well-being, supporting relationships between children and their families, and working as a team member. This article describes each domain and reviews relevant research to help guide the assessment of practicing and future foster parents.

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