Abstract
Research shows increasing numbers of emotionally disturbed children entering foster care nationwide. As a result, there is growing interest in a special form of foster care known as therapeutic or treatment foster care. However, little information is currently available on the kinds of children who can benefit from this form of mental health care or on interactions between child characteristics and placement outcome. This paper begins to address this deficit in the knowledge base by proposing five psychosoical dimensions of child functioning associated with placement stability and outcome in treatment foster care. Current theory and research regarding each dimension are presented along with clinical examples.
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