This study examined variability in problem behavior among toddlers entering new foster care placements and identified related child and parenting characteristics.

This article examines family‐based interventions designed to increase parenting effectiveness, fathers' positive involvement, and couple relationship quality, all with the goal of enhancing children's development.

This anecdotal story features professional and personal reflections and vignettes on the music therapy journey with a very withdrawn and isolated young boy at a place of safety in Cape Town, South Africa.

Despite a growing interest in music therapy within child welfare practice, music therapy practices within these contexts are still under-researched in Norway. The present study takes a collaborative community music therapy practice as its point of departure.

Based on attachment theory, this study was conducted to analyze the contact between these children and their biological parents, and the factors affecting this contact.

This study examined adopted adolescents’ levels of attachment security to parents and aggressiveness as compared to those of community nonadopted adolescents and of clinical nonadopted adolescents.

This study tested the hypotheses that inverse relationships would exist between connectedness in three social domains (i.e., caregiver, peers, and school) and suicidal ideation over time.

To illustrate design and implementation of the Strategies for Enhancing Early Developmental Success (SEEDS) Preschool Program, aimed at promoting school readiness in families connected to the child welfare system, the current paper uses parent- and teacher-reported data to summarize the progress of three participating families with diverse histories and presenting issues.

This study aimed to assess the specific influence of migrant mothers on early child development, especially on social–emotional problems.

In the current study, the authors examined whether children with Child Protective Services (CPS) involvement who were in foster care had more advanced receptive vocabulary than children with CPS involvement who resided with their birth parents.