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The scope of research about kinship care has expanded. One area of interest is the impact social support has on kinship caregivers (Kelley, Whitley, & Campos, 2011). The Family Support Scale (FSS) has been used to measure social support among kinship caregivers (Kelley et al., 2011; Leder et al., 2007); however, there has been no rigorous examination of the psychometric properties of the FSS when administered to kinship caregivers. This study used a sample of 255 kinship caregivers to conduct a principal component analysis and developed a four-component structure for the FSS. The results suggest that the four-component structure identifies four sub-scales that have adequate face validity and internal consistency validity with this population.
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Protección a la Infancia/psicología , Cuidados en el Hogar de Adopción/psicología , Psicometría/estadística & datos numéricos , Apoyo Social , Encuestas y Cuestionarios , Adulto , Anciano , Anciano de 80 o más Años , Manejo de Caso , Niño , Humanos , Persona de Mediana Edad , Reproducibilidad de los Resultados , Servicio Social , Adulto JovenRESUMEN
In October of 2008, the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act became a law. It represents a groundbreaking change in substance abuse treatment policy because it redistributes the bulk of costs for substance abuse treatment from the federal government to group health plans. The law required that employee and public insurances that cover health or surgical care also provide comparable terms of coverage and treatment limitations for substance abuse. This article considers shift within the context of a popular substance abuse motto that "reform is progress but not perfect." Specifically, it examines policy implications and their impact on consumers, insurers, providers, and case managers.