The purpose of this article is to use the authors' experiences litigating physical abuse cases in the Bronx, New York City, USA to provide practitioners and family defenders both in New York and in other states with ideas and strategies of how to move cases forward for parents and caretakers charged with serious physical abuse of a child. It is our hope that, by challenging these allegations, defense attorneys can expose the misperceptions and overreach of agencies that charge parents with physical abuse based on injuries alone.

The purpose of this study was to gain insights into the perspectives of child welfare alumni related to the educational experiences that facilitated or presented obstacles to academic and social-emotional resilience and well-being and to what extent.

This article argues that the US state of Alaska should enact a state statute to provide clear guidance to state child welfare practitioners and state courts that Alaska’s state government recognizes an Indian custodianship created through Tribal law or custom as a pathway for Indian children to exit the overburdened state foster care system.

This paper discusses critical tasks facing adoptive parents of transracially adopted persons (TRAs), what we know about parents’ role and children’s outcomes.

This article provides an overview of typical experiences for unaccompanied immigrant minors (UIMs), discusses the accompanying legal and clinical implications, and offers recommendations for psychological practice at the level of providers, training programs, and child-serving systems.

This single group pilot study explored the effect of child–parent relationship therapy (CPRT) for adoptive parents of preadolescents who reported attachment related concerns, stress in the parent–child relationship, and child behavior problems.

This article from the Oklahoma Law Review explores the US child welfare system and the practice of family separation of poor families.

This paper uses administrative data to describe the characteristics and experiences of a population of youth in the child welfare system considered to be at particularly high risk of victimization: youth who have run away from foster care.

The aim of this meta-analysis is to identify the most effective interventions to promote parental engagement and family reunification in high-income countries.

This study identified children born to mothers in foster care and documented Child Protective Service (CPS) involvement among children.