Promoting subjective well-being of foster care children by support their biological and foster families for visits

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Despite the importance of visits during foster care and their impact on child well-being, psychoeducational programmes to improve the quality of these contacts are scarce. The Foster Care and Adoption Research Group of the University of Malaga has designed the first Spanish programme for this purpose, Visits: a context for family development (Bernedo et al., 2020), targeting biological and foster families. The aim of this study is to assess the subjective well-being of a sample of children in permanent non-kinship foster care with contact visits, whose families have participated in the psychoeducational programme mentioned above. The results show that prior to the intervention, although the children reported having a pleasant mood, some children had feelings of worry, sadness or loneliness related to the separation from their relatives or the visits. After the intervention, foster families reported how their participation in the programme improved the children's well-being.

Output type
Conference presentation
Year
2022