with siblings, payment of foster carers and a number of other factors that may vary between the US and the UK. These could all be issues of diversity and difference that may impact the appropriateness or effectiveness of psychological interventions. These statistics highlight the breadth and depth of similarities and differences between both the foster care systems themselves and the characteristics of the children fostered in these systems and their difficulties. As discussed, there are also likely to be many more. Given these details, it seems complacent to assume that the evidence for effectiveness of interventions used in the USA is automatically relevant to the UK. It highlights the implementation of such evidence-based practises across the UK as a risky and potentially costly trial, in terms of public money and psychosocial impact on the foster children and their families if it is an ineffective intervention. Though US research dominates the literature databases, one would hope that given the extent that programmes such as MST and MTFC have already been implemented in a number of local authorities, that UK based evidence for effectiveness is now guiding practise in the UK more than US evidence. This literature review will now look at what evidence exists for the effectiveness of interventions for foster children in the UK. Method An electronic systematic literature search was undertaken on Psychinfo, Medline, Ebsco, Web of Knowledge and Cochrane databases. It included peer-reviewed papers published
with siblings, payment of foster carers and a number of other factors that may vary between the US and the UK. These could all be issues of diversity and difference that may impact the appropriateness or effectiveness of psychological interventions. These statistics highlight the breadth and depth of similarities and differences between both the foster care systems themselves and the characteristics of the children fostered in these systems and their difficulties. As discussed, there are also likely to be many more. Given these details, it seems complacent to assume that the evidence for effectiveness of interventions used in the USA is automatically relevant to the UK. It highlights the implementation of such evidence-based practises across the UK as a risky and potentially costly trial, in terms of public money and psychosocial impact on the foster children and their families if it is an ineffective intervention. Though US research dominates the literature databases, one would hope that given the extent that programmes such as MST and MTFC have already been implemented in a number of local authorities, that UK based evidence for effectiveness is now guiding practise in the UK more than US evidence. This literature review will now look at what evidence exists for the effectiveness of interventions for foster children in the UK. Method An electronic systematic literature search was undertaken on Psychinfo, Medline, Ebsco, Web of Knowledge and Cochrane databases. It included peer-reviewed papers published
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