What is most interesting to me is what the Fisher article doesn't say about changes in pattens of attachment organization in infants placed in foster care. Specifically, Dozier and her colleagues (Dozier, Stovall, Albus, & Bates, 2001) found that infants placed in foster care even after 18 months reorganized their attachment behavior around the emotional availability of their new caregivers. This is hopeful news that should have been emphasized in the Fisher article. Geoff Geoff Goodman, Ph.D., ABPP, FIPA, CST, CSAT-S, CMAT-S Associate Professor Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program Long Island University 720 Northern Blvd. Brookville, NY 11548 (516) 299-4277 http://myweb.cwpost.liu.edu/ggoodman/home.htm ________________________________________ From: list-manager@psychotherapyresearch.org [list-manager@psychotherapyresearch.org] on behalf of Nick Midgley [nickmidgley@btconnect.com] Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2015 12:17 PM To: caftr@psychotherapyresearch.org Subject: CaFTR Research with looked after children / children in foster care Dear CaFTR colleagues Some of you may remember that the CaFTR steering group (led by Katharina Weitkamp) conducted an online survey, to guage current research activity and priorities among us for future research, as well as for the activities of CaFTR itself. I'm attaching a summary of the findings, which Katharina has prepared. One question we asked was about research priorities for the future, and a number of people identified research looking at therapeutic interventions for children in foster care (looked after children). With that in mind, I'm posting a recent review article, by Philip Fisher, looking at adoption, fostering and the needs of looked after children. We would like to suggest that members of this e-group might like to read this paper and use it as the basis for a discussion / exchange of ideas about research with this population. We'd be interested to hear about your own research activities in this field, or your responses to the Fisher paper, or other thoughts you have on this topic. We would like to suggest that this topic could remain 'open' between now and the end of March. Please do feel free to continue to post on other topics in the meanwhile, including questions or updates about your own work. But if you do, please be sure to change the title in the 'Subject' line, so that we can separate out different discussion threads. Thanks - and looking forward to hearing what people have to say! Best wishes, Nick Midgley (on behalf of the CaFTR steering group).
