Youth Transitioning Out of Residential Care in South Africa: Toward Ubuntu and Interdependent Living

Rajeshree Moodley, Tanusha Raniga, Vishanthie Sewpaul - Emerging Adulthood

Informed by the qualitative method and the descriptive-interpretive design, this study, which was underscored by radical humanist goals of structural social work, reflects the voices of 16 youth who had transitioned out of care.

Supporting Children with Disabilities in Low- and Middle Income Countries: Promoting Inclusive Practice within Community-Based Childcare Centres in Malawi through a Bioecological Systems Perspective

Mike McLinden, Paul Lynch, Anita Soni, Alfredo Artiles, Foster Kholowa, Elizabeth Kamchedzera, Jenipher Mbukwa, Mika Mankhwazi - International Journal of Early Childhood

This study draws on a bioecological systems perspective to propose the parameters for a broader unit of analysis of inclusion for young children with disabilities in research within low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) contexts.

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Child Maltreatment, Chronic Pain, and Other Chronic Health Conditions in Youth in Foster Care

Lindsay Huffhines & Yo Jackson - Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma

The goals of this study were 1) to examine this relation in youth placed in foster care with high levels of maltreatment exposure, and 2) to investigate the relation between maltreatment frequency and acute pain, and maltreatment frequency and general chronic health condition.

Caseworker assessment of child risk and functioning and their relation to service use in the child welfare system

Christian M. Connell, Christopher T. Bory, Cindy Y. Huang, Maegan Genovese, Colleen Caron, Jacob Kraemer Tebes - Children and Youth Services Review

This study examined the relationship of caseworker ratings of risk across multiple domains to youth functioning and service use for a sample of children open to the child welfare system.

A Competent Parent, A Loving Professional: A Case Study of Foster Parenting in Russian Children’s Villages

Hyppölä, Oona-Maaria; Hyppölä, Anniina - University of Helsinki, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Social Research

This thesis takes a range of Russian Children’s Villages as its case study in an attempt to investigate foster parents’ perceptions of parenting and thus shed light on the present-day development of the alternative care system in Russia.

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Use of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire to identify treatment needs in looked-after children referred to CAMHS

Hannah Wright, David Wellsted, Jacqui Gratton, Sarah Jane Besser, Nick Midgley - Developmental Child Welfare

This study aimed to establish how well the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) identified children who required treatment.

Associations between early life parent-child separation and shortened telomere length and psychopathological outcomes during adolescence

Xingxing Chen, Chenchen Zeng, Chun Gong, Lei Zhang, Yuhui Wan, Fangbiao Tao, Ying Sun - Psychoneuroendocrinology

The objective of this study was to test the associations between parent-child separation with telomere length (TL) and psychopathology during adolescence.