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RE: research on post-foster care counseling
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Yes, the limitation of the study is that
it is qualitative. It’s purpose is to understand better the range of more
to less supportive behaviors that nonoffending parents engage in as well as the
resources and barriers to supporting their child. Of course there are studies showing
that some nonoffending parents experience post-traumatic stress disorder. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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bounce-1597022-6840969@list.cornell.edu
[mailto:bounce-1597022-6840969@list.cornell.edu] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>DeanTong@aol.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, July 12, 2007 2:09
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> child-maltreatment-research-l@list.cornell.edu<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: research on
post-foster care counseling</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>As someone who is extensively published with the population
of parents you allude to below, it's professionally and politically incorrect
to study the same. I have fielded at least ten thousand e-mails/phone calls
from parents whose children have been taken away by the government and/or
courts since 1984. It would be nice if your study was quantitative whereby
psychometric tests such as the MMPI-2, PDS, et al were administered so
that reliability and validity values could be established for parents suffering
from PTSD or PTSD features.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>Dean Tong<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>In a message dated 7/12/2007 2:51:07 PM Eastern Daylight
Time, rbolen@utk.edu writes:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:black'>I am currently conducting a small qualitative study of
nonoffending parents of sexually abused children. A few have lost their
children and have not had them returned; others have had their children
returned. One of the compelling themes for these parents is the experience of
tragic loss and profound distress combined with posttraumatic symptoms of
parents when their children were not with them. Another recurrent theme is a
deep fear from the returned children that their parents will disappear again.
Parents recounted heightened anxiety in their children regarding instances when
they were not immediately available or in parents when children were out of
their sight. Even 1 or 2 years later parents and children continued to struggle
with the effects of the loss, including experiencing posttraumatic symptoms
related to the loss. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:black'>My own opinion was that the parents whose children were not with
them needed ongoing supportive therapy to help them to contend with their
profound loss so that they could attend to what was necessary to get their kids
back. It also appeared that appropriate postreunification family or individual
treatment could have helped them to contend with and hopefully overcome the
posttraumatic and anxiety symptoms that appeared to be so closely associated
with their having lost each other for a time. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:black'>It is curious that there is so little about this in the literature
especially considering that attachment theory tells us that this is one of the
most traumatic events a child or parent can suffer.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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represents his personal and professional opinion and must not be gleaned to be
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