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Foster Parent Stress, Formal Support, and Intent to Continue Fostering: Differences Between Kinship and Non-Kinship Foster Caregivers

Creator:: Mullican, Nicole
Abstract:: The number of children entering foster care is rising, making foster parent retention a critical concern. Significant stressors accompany the role of a foster parent, which may be exacerbated by the current context (e.g., COVID-19). Although stress may influence foster parents’ decision to continue fostering, formal social support may act...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: September 17, 2021. Title: Foster Parent Stress, Formal Support, and Intent to Continue Fostering

An examination of kin and nonkin foster parents’ experiences

Creator:: De Costa, Jennifer L. (Jennifer Loretta)
Abstract:: The growth of foster care, particularly kin foster care has greatly outpaced our knowledge. The purpose of this exploratory qualitative study was to develop a more informed understanding of foster family functioning from the perspective of foster parents. This study examined the experiences of 9 kin and 12 nonkin foster...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: their foster child(ren). Although the frequency of specific challenges and rewards varied across kin

The status of family life/sex education in the public high schools of Oregon

Creator:: Ishisaka, Howard Sadanobu
Abstract:: The major purpose of this study was to determine the current status of family life/sex education programs in the public high schools of Oregon. A mail questionnaire was submitted to all health teachers in all the high schools in Oregon. The questionniare was mailed twice to 447 health teachers in...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Foster The major purpose of this study was to determine the current status of family life/sex education

‘Difficult to place’? Understanding child and family level factors affecting placement stability for youth in foster care

Creator:: Probert, Kylee
Abstract:: Introduction: Youth in foster care face greater rates of trauma and subsequent mental health challenges (Bruce et al., 2009; O’Neill et al., 2012; Seltzer et al., 2012; etc.) that place increased burden on their caregivers (Daniel, 2011; McKeough et al., 2017), suggesting that these specific groups of youth in foster...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: obligations as a foster parent (Sprey-Wessing & Portz, 1982). Another example of role ambiguity for foster

Multi-Reward Learning and Sparse Rewards

Creator:: Christopher, Reid M.
Abstract:: Reinforcement learning has made impressive strides in solving problems in challenging domains, but problems are increasingly being described with sparse rewards. Sparse rewards directly reduce the rate at which useful feedback is provided to the learner and make it difficult to distinguish between what specific actions led to the reception...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: Multi-Reward Learning and Sparse Rewards Reid Christopher

Reasserting moral boundaries : representations of fame in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda

Creator:: Foster, Emily S.
Abstract:: Celebrity culture is part of a long history of fame, but the modern celebrity individual came into focus in the nineteenth century. The first part of this thesis distinguishes modern celebrity – including its morality – from other types of fame, explores the intersection of celebrity and gender through the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Emily S. Foster for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on May

Enriching foster family relationships through problem solving : guidelines for foster parents

Creator:: Oregon State University. Extension Service, Ozretich, Rachel A., Vuchinich, S., Pratt, C., and Bowman, Sally R., 1949-
Abstract:: Foster families provide care and support for more than 500,000 foster children in the United States. Foster families, like all families, face conflicts and stresses that demand effective problem solving. This guide outlines some simple ideas for effective problem solving in foster families.
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: ? JAKE: I hate Jenny! PARENT: You are mad at your foster sister. JAKE: She keeps grabbing all the blue

Relationships and Expectations for Educational Achievement of Foster Youth

Creator:: Calvert, Robert C. (Robert Christian)
Abstract:: Youth in foster care often perform at lower levels academically than those not in foster care. Prior research on the nature of the relationships that affect former foster youth's educational path has been inconclusive. Though it is widely believed that positive relationships with faculty, staff and peers is beneficial for...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: relationships could inform foster parent training and college student services for former foster youth

Hierarchical average reward reinforcement learning

Creator:: Seri, Sandeep
Abstract:: Reinforcement Learning (RL) is the study of agents that learn optimal behavior by interacting with and receiving rewards and punishments from an unknown environment. RL agents typically do this by learning value functions that assign a value to each state (situation) or to each state-action pair. Recently, there has been...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Master of Science in Computer Science presented on May 15th, 2002. Title: Hierarchical Average Reward

School Bullying Intervention Programs and the Eight Positive Youth Development Indicators of High-Quality Youth Programs : A Systematic Review and Analysis

Creator:: Flesch, Jeffrey M.
Abstract:: During the past two decades a wide range of intervention programs have emerged in response to escalating concerns over school bullying. The advent of such programs seems justified as 70 percent of school-aged children and youth identify bullying as a problem in their school (Polanin, et al., 2012; Renshaw &...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: -QUALITY YOUTH PROGRAMS Eight program strategies found to foster and promote positive youth development

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Foster Parent Stress, Formal Support, and Intent to Continue Fostering: Differences Between Kinship and Non-Kinship Foster Caregivers

An examination of kin and nonkin foster parents’ experiences

The status of family life/sex education in the public high schools of Oregon

‘Difficult to place’? Understanding child and family level factors affecting placement stability for youth in foster care

Multi-Reward Learning and Sparse Rewards

Reasserting moral boundaries : representations of fame in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda

Enriching foster family relationships through problem solving : guidelines for foster parents

Relationships and Expectations for Educational Achievement of Foster Youth

Hierarchical average reward reinforcement learning

School Bullying Intervention Programs and the Eight Positive Youth Development Indicators of High-Quality Youth Programs : A Systematic Review and Analysis

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