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This descriptive study involved caregivers and their adopted children, under the age of 7 years old, referred by pediatricians to an outpatient clinic, which specializes in early mental health. The prevalence of toxic stress, measured as symptoms of Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) and Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder (DSED), was explored using clinical data collected during initial assessment.
This article from the Thomson Reuters Foundation tells the story of Amy Andrews and other young people in foster care who have been trafficked, or made vulnerable to trafficking.
The purpose of this scholarly project was to create a guide for trauma-informed interventions for occupational therapists specifically to use with foster care children.
This manual, supported by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative (NCTSI) Grant, offers guidance on the implementation of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) with children in foster care and their families.
This paper evaluates a five-module curriculum for recently immigrated youth called FUERTE (Family Reunification and Resiliency Training).
This synthesis from the U.S. Children's Bureau summarizes the work and findings of a cluster of demonstration projects aimed at developing replicable models of systemic change and evidence-based models for placing children and youth with families who could provide permanent family connections.
This research study proposes to explore aggregate of factors responsible for the academic struggles of foster care youth.
This study was conducted to determine if adolescent mothers who were in the care of child protection services (CPS) when they gave birth to their first child are more likely to have that child taken into CPS care before the child’s second birthday than adolescent mothers who were not in the care of CPS.
The Child and Youth Care Association of British Columbia, Canada is hosting the 20th National and 12th Triennial International Child and Youth Care Conference in Vancouver, Canada 1-4 May 2018.
The primary aim of the current study was to examine the longitudinal effects of ongoing physical abuse on the co-development of externalizing behavior problems and posttraumatic stress (PTS) symptoms among child welfare-involved adolescents.