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Cultural Receptivity among Foster Parents: Implications for Quality Transcultural Parenting

2015; Oxford University Press; Volume: 39; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/swr/svu033

1545-6838

Tanya M. Coakley, Kenneth J. Gruber,

Family Support in Illness

Journal Article Cultural Receptivity among Foster Parents: Implications for Quality Transcultural Parenting Get access Tanya M. Coakley, Tanya M. Coakley Tanya M. Coakley, PhD, is associate professor and Kenneth Gruber, PhD, is senior research scientist, Department of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Address correspondence to Tanya M. Coakley, Department of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, POB 26170, Greensboro, NC 27402-6170; This study was funded by the UNC-Greensboro New Faculty Grant. The authors wish to thank Niki Le Prohn, Kelly Sim, and Casey Family Programs for permission to use the foster parent scales for research; and John G. Orme, Cheryl Buehler, Donna Cherry, Mary Ellen Cox, Gary Cuddeback, and Kathryn Rhodes for the development of the scales. They also thank Karen Jorgenson and the National Foster Parent Association for endorsing this study. The authors are appreciative of the foster parents' participation in this study, the child welfare agencies' recruitment assistance, Holly Roberts-Mozzee's research assistance, and Elizabeth Tornquist's editing of a draft of this article. e-mail: tcoakley@uncg.edu. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Kenneth Gruber Kenneth Gruber Tanya M. Coakley, PhD, is associate professor and Kenneth Gruber, PhD, is senior research scientist, Department of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Address correspondence to Tanya M. Coakley, Department of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, POB 26170, Greensboro, NC 27402-6170; This study was funded by the UNC-Greensboro New Faculty Grant. The authors wish to thank Niki Le Prohn, Kelly Sim, and Casey Family Programs for permission to use the foster parent scales for research; and John G. Orme, Cheryl Buehler, Donna Cherry, Mary Ellen Cox, Gary Cuddeback, and Kathryn Rhodes for the development of the scales. They also thank Karen Jorgenson and the National Foster Parent Association for endorsing this study. The authors are appreciative of the foster parents' participation in this study, the child welfare agencies' recruitment assistance, Holly Roberts-Mozzee's research assistance, and Elizabeth Tornquist's editing of a draft of this article. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Work Research, Volume 39, Issue 1, March 2015, Pages 11–22, https://doi.org/10.1093/swr/svu033 Published: 14 January 2015 Article history Received: 10 April 2013 Revision received: 23 January 2014 Accepted: 27 January 2014 Published: 14 January 2015