Parenting Support

Families will require support when faced with problems they are unable to overcome on their own. Ideally support should come from existing networks, such as extended family, religious leaders, and neighbours. Where such support is not available or sufficient, additional family and community services are required. Such services are particularly important for kinship, foster and adoptive caretakers, and child headed households in order to prevent separation and address abuse and exploitation of children. It is also vital for children affected by HIV/AIDS and armed conflict, and those children living on the street.

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Míriam Álvarez, Sonia Byrne, María José Rodrigo - Child & Family Social Work,

The authors of this study compared individual patterns of change in three parenting outcomes in 256 at risk parents with young children attending the group‐based Growing Up Happily in the Family program delivered in municipal social services.

Cecilie Sudland - Child & Family Social Work,

This article reports on a qualitative study involving 31 social workers and provides an analysis of their experiences and dilemmas in working with families marked by high levels of conflict between separated parents.

Mary Mitchell - Child & Family Social Work,

This open access article reports on a qualitative study, which sought to retrospectively understand the contribution family group conferencing (FGC) makes to longer‐term outcomes for children at risk of entering State care and their families.

Laura Orlando, Susan Barkan, Kathryn Brennan - Children and Youth Services Review,

In this paper, the authors describe a process used to inform the development of a parenting intervention that would have high relevance to child welfare involved parents and could then work towards proving its effectiveness.

Mary I. Armstrong, Melissa Hope Johnson, John Robst, Areana Cruz, Monica Landers, Amy Vargo - International Journal on Child Maltreatment: Research, Policy and Practice,

This article compares and contrasts the services needed by families in child welfare systems with the services that families receive.

Sarah de Vos, Bep van Sloten, Mathijs Euwema - Save the Children & International Child Development Initiatives,

The aim of this report from Save the Children is to provide policymakers, service-providing organizations and child protection practitioners and child rights advocates with an easy to use reference document, to augment the implementation of support programmes for children and families in vulnerable circumstances.

Catherine E. Draper, Steven J. Howard, Tamsen J. Rochat - Child: Care, Health and Development,

The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility and acceptability of a home‐based intervention—Amagugu Asakhula—to promote nurturing interactions and healthy behaviours with the caregivers of preschool children.

Gifty Gyamah Nyante & Christine Carpenter - Child: Care, Health and Development,

This study aims to explore the experiences of carers of children with cerebral palsy living in rural areas of Ghana who have received no rehabilitation services.

Jenifer Wakelyn,

Therapeutic Interventions with Babies and Young Children in Care is about the value of observation and close attention for babies and young children who may be vulnerable to psychological and attachment difficulties.

Rong Bai, Cyleste Collins, Robert Fischer, David Crampton - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study explores facilitators of and barriers to effective collaboration between workers at partner organizations working on a program focused on the reunification of housing-unstable families with their children in out-of-home placement in the US.