August 3, 2010

Mentoring and Skills Development Improve Mental Health Outcomes in Children in Foster Care

medicalnewstoday.com

A study conducted by The Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect at the University of Colorado School of Medicine found that children who have been maltreated and placed in foster care can benefit from its intervention program aimed at improving mental health outcomes. Fostering Healthy Futures (FHF) preventive intervention program consists of skill development groups and one-on-one mentoring by graduate students in social work. The groups were designed to develop skills in areas including emotion recognition, problem solving, anger management, healthy relationships, peer pressure and abuse prevention.

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