Increasing child protection workforce retention through promoting a relational-reflective framework for resilience

Erica Russ, Bob Lonne, Deborah Lynch - Child Abuse & Neglect

This Australian longitudinal, qualitative study explored child protection worker perceptions and experiences of resilience to inform understandings of worker resilience, and implications for worker functioning and workforce retention.

Communication Between Left-Behind Children and Their Migrant Parents in China: A Study of Imagined Interactions, Relational Maintenance Behaviors, Family Support, and Relationship Quality

Sheng, Yingyan - Kent State University

This dissertation examines the communication between left-behind children in China and their migrant parents from the three-level perspective of relational maintenance (Dainton, 2003): the self, the system, and the network contexts.

System Involvement among Young Adults Experiencing Homelessness

Sarah C. Narendorf, et al - Children and Youth Services Review

This study used a dataset of 1426 young adults experiencing homelessness (YAEH) from 7 different US cities to examine the historical risk and resilience characteristics of those involved in foster care alone, juvenile justice alone, both systems (dual status), and no system involvement.

Challenges and their Overcoming when Implementing the Restructuring of Children’s Care Homes in Lithuania

Vida Gudzinskiene and Rita Raudeliunaite - Int. Conf. SOCIETY. HEALTH. WELFARE

The aim of the study is to reveal challenges and the ways to overcome them in the context of the restructuring of childcare, based on the experience of social workers who work in children’s care homes in Lithuania, which participate in the restructuring.

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“Ask Me What I Want”: Community-Based Participatory Research to Explore Transition-Age Foster Youth’s Use of Support Services

Saralyn C. Ruff & Kristi Harrison - Children and Youth Services Review

A number of psychological factors have been found to be relevant in terms of problematic use of digital devices. Some of them may serve as risk factors, while others mean protection. The main goal of present study was to determine user profiles and to examine differences among them based on several psychological variables using cluster analysis.

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