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- Title: Is the Life History Calendar a Valid Measure of Child Custody Loss Among Birth Mothers with Serious Mental Illness?(Research Note) (Report)
- Author : Social Work Research
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 215 KB
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As of October 9, 2009, 463,000 children were receiving care in the public foster care system (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2009). Parental rights to 75,000 (16%) had been terminated. Parents with serious mental illness (SMI) are confronted with increased risk of involvement with the child welfare system and of having their children placed in out-of-home care (Park, Solomon, & Mandell, 2006; Sands, Koppelman, & Solomon, 2004). In fact, five states (Alaska, Arizona, California, Kentucky, and North Dakota) and Puerto Rico list mental illness or disability as grounds for not providing reasonable efforts toward reunification (Kaplan, Kottsieper, Scott, Salzer, & Solomon, 2009). The reality of threats to the parenting status of people with mental illness, particularly the influence of stigma on policy and services decisions, makes this an important area for social work research. Because much of the research on custody loss among women with SMI is dependent on self-reports, valid measures are imperative. In the present study, we were interested in discovering whether a Life History Calendar (LHC) would provide a valid measure of custody loss. Using a sample from a longitudinal study of women with SMI who were parents, we compared their responses on an LHC with their responses to a standard structured interview questionnaire. METHOD