Re: foster care

[tasha howe <thowe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In my work on abused children in residential treatment, I only had to get the
treatment center's permission and the social workers had to sign a research
consent form.

ssalahu-din wrote:

> Staci, you may want to check on whether the social service agency has
> custody and or guardianship and if so, is the agency responsible for
> granting consent instead of the parents.
>
> Sakinah N. Salahu-Din, Ph.D., MSW
> Associate Professor  of Social Work
> Saint Joseph College
> 1678 Asylum Avenue
> West Hartford, CT 06117
> (860) 231-5512
> FAX (860)95
>
>                 -----Original Message-----
>                 From:   Staci M. Peckham [mailto:speckham@ssw.upenn.edu]
>                 Sent:   Friday, February 09, 2001 10:09 AM
>                 To:     Child Maltreatment Researchers
>                 Subject:        foster care
>
>                 I am designing a study that involves working with young
> foster children.  Does
>                 anyone who has worked with this (or a similar population)
> have any ideas about
>                 how to get informed consent from the biological parent -
> particularly when
>                 parents are difficult to find?
>
>                 Thank you,
>
>                 Staci Peckham
>
>                 Staci M. Peckham
>
>                 speckham@ssw.upenn.edu

--
***********
Tasha R. Howe, Ph.D
Assistant Professor of Psychology (Developmental)
Transylvania University
300 N. Broadway
Lexington, KY  40508
(859) 233-8144
FAX: (859) 281-3507
Website: http://www.transy.edu/homepages/thowe/ftpdpages/index2.html