What is it about?

The evaluation of a ten session nonviolent resistance training for foster parents who take care of children with serious behavioral problems.

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Why is it important?

Implementation of this nonviolent resistance intervention might increase the effectiveness of foster care as it showed to be an acceptable approach for foster parents that lead to an increase in experienced support and promisingchanges in parenting stress and in some parenting practices.

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It concerns the first application of the nonviolent resistance approach in family foster care.

Dr. Frank Van Holen
Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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This page is a summary of: Training in Nonviolent Resistance for Foster Parents, Research on Social Work Practice, August 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1049731516662915.
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