NDACAN Measure Details
Belonging and Emotional Security Tool - Adoption and Guardianship (BEST-AG)
Description:
The BEST, developed by Casey Family Services (Frey et al., 2008), was originally designed to help social workers guide conversations around emotional and legal commitment with foster parents and youth who are unable to reunify with their family of origin. For this study, the BEST was adapted and used with families formed through adoption and guardianship. The BEST-AG includes two subscales: The Emotional Security Subscale (13 items; measures the shared sense of family belonging) and the Claiming Subscale (7 items: measures the degree to which the caregiver claimed their child either emotionally or legally).
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