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Dupree, D. (2002). //FOSTER CARE AND EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT: IMPLICATIONS FOR CHILD WELFARE POLICY AND PRACTICE//. Retrieved August 14, 2012, from Center for Assessment and Policy Development website: http://www.capd.org/pubfiles/pub-2002-00-01.pdf

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 * 1) Securely attached children experience consistent, responsive and supportive relationships to their mothers or primary caregivers even during times of significant stress.
 * 2) Teenagers have been faced with any of a number of risk factors including poverty, violence, abuse (emotional,physical, sexual) and neglect.
 * 3) Foster care can negatively influence teenagers development as well as how the foster care experience itself can mitigate or aggravate developmental problems.
 * 4) Specific factors critical to a secure attachment between a child and caregiver include: quantity of time spent together, face-to-face interactions, eye contact, physical proximity, touch and other primary sensory experiences such as smell, sound and taste.
 * 5) Strategies for intervention are developed for teenagers in foster care, analysis of current practice should be carried out with an understanding of the ways in which foster care experience can support or hinder positive child development.
 * 6) foster care can negatively influence their development as well as how the foster care experience itself can mitigate or aggravate developmental problems.
 * 7) Securely attached children experience consistent, responsive and supportive relationships to their mothers or primary caregivers even during times of significant stress.
 * 8) Caregiver will misinterpret the child’s behavior, because the caregiver and child do not have a shared history of social and emotional development.
 * 9) If a child is in foster care, his or her ability to develop secure attachment relationships with primary caregivers has already been compromised.
 * 10) By their very nature, out-of-home placements offer less time for the child and caregiver to become attuned to each other.
 * 11) Children in foster care may have biological parents who struggle with substance abuse (associated with physical abuse and inconsistent care of the child), experience violence (associated with feelings of threat versus feelings of safety and comfort), and live at or below the poverty level (highly correlated with neglect of children).
 * 12) Accordingly, the caregiver has less time to adjust the caregiving style to meet the child’s needs. There is even a greater likelihood that the caregiver will misinterpret the child’s behavior, because the caregiver and child
 * 1) The number of children in residence may have an effect on the quantity and quality of time that a child spends
 * 1) Foster care incorporates a wide range of substitute living arrangements for children whose parents are unable to provide adequate care temporarily or permanently.
 * 2) Parents and other caregivers serve as models of many behaviors including emotional expression and emotional regulation (Morrison, Frank, Holland & Kates, 2000). They help children make sense of themselves and their environments.