Literature Review on Foster Care Article

A.)
Buehler, Cheryl and Orme, John G."Foster Family Characteristics and Behavioral and Emotional Problems of Foster Children: A Narrative Review." Family Relations, Vol. 50, No. 1 (Jan., 2001), pp. 3-15

B.)
The article discuss the emotion effects of being in the foster care. There are many factors that may place a child into the foster care that leads to the child emotions feeling a certain way after. Many factors of foster care bring different kinds of emotions for the child to begin once placed in foster care. These factors can bring upon emotional and behavioral problems of child being placed into foster care. The article explain the reason why a child after being place into foster care begin to have emotional, or behavioral problem that is due to parenting, parent's mental health, social support, or how a family operates in their house hold. There are many other factors that are explained in the article that can cause emotional or behavioral problems.

C.)

The article was well written and have a good layout. It is always good to have some form of background for readers to read, because some people may not be aware of the history or current events that occur in certain topics. The article was well informed on the background, but I felt the writer was a little bias in the article. The author seemed to have little or limited information on certain areas of the article, but seems to generalized it into a big population.

D.)

Literature review is important because it help understand the article and analyze the information that is obtain. The article purpose was to compare the different styles of raising a child from foster care and parents, because understanding the difference style help minimize the action that lead to a child have emotional or behavioral problems.

E.)

I feel that the article did generalized a little more than it the information obtain from research supported. Other then generalizing a little bit, I thought the article was well written and informative on the information it obtain on the research.

Research process

Researching for the right materials is hard. I feel that I have information that is needed in the project, but too general for my topic or is repeating over other materials I have founded already. The time for the project is approaching and I still think I have a lot more work ahead of me. It does not help that I have many different assignments in other classes, but I am trying to work on my time management of doing the work for the IM 204 class. I have failed to remember to keep a posting on my blog along with doing two other assignments that slipped my mind. I feel that the information I have obtain is not very beneficial to me and that I still need to keep researching for other materials.
However, some of the materials I have obtain can really help me in my research. Some of the information raise the questions on why some of the organization are stereotyping or segregating some people from joining the greek communities? Or is this happening in other greek organization of multicultural to only accept people that are minorities? Or does the way greek organization prevent certain people from joining or bring certain people to join the organization? These question I still need to find answers of facts that will help me understand it more.

Google search was not a good resource for me in the beginning when I didn't know how to limit the search results. When I first type the words that I wanted to find in the article it resulted in many articles, but I could not use any of the articles. When I used quotations I came up with a better organized and more related articles to my research topic. It help me to eliminate some of the articles and then I could limit the the results by changing the year of published in the search. The google search was more affective to use the extra steps or else you get results that are not related to your topic, but only contains the words in the article. I find that google is still hard to find useful resource that would help support the research project. I do find that google scholar is very good at finding articles that may relate to the research topic. I still have to keep figuring out what to type and settings to get the best results for a search.