Kinship care offers temporary foster care, in addition to permanent arranges such as kin guardianship and adoption (Rowe, 2013). Kinship care helps to reach the goal of keeping a child with members of their family and permanently providing them with permanency (Rowe, 2013). Kinship care is related to adoption because it can lead to kinship adoption, providing the child with permanent familial care (Pecora et al., 2009).
Connection between adoption and residential services Residential services are a type of foster care placement for children whose needs cannot be met in a regular foster home setting. Residential services focus on improving the lives of children and families struggling with emotional and developmental challenges in home, school, and community. The goal is to work with the children and their parents so that families can be reunited and the children can live successfully in the community upon discharge from foster care. As with children a regular
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Research has also shown that children and adolescents in public and private adoptions who are older than eight when they are permanently placed, are more likely to be diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) (Agnich, Schueths, James, & Kilbert, 2016). It is also shown that children and adolescents who are placed in the foster care system, then adopted, suffer from anxiety and depression throughout their developmental years and into adulthood (Agnich, Schueths, James, & Kilbert, 2016). There is a clear connection between adoption and mental health, as research shows that children and adolescents that are adopted, often struggle with PTSD, attachment disorders, anxiety, and