Do frequency of visits with birth parents impact children’s mental health and parental stress in stable foster care settings?

Sturla Fossum, Svein Arild Vis, and Amy Holtan - Cogent Psychology

This article explores whether the number of visits by birth parents influence perceptions of attachment, children’s competence and mental health, and stress levels in foster parents.

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What is Really Wrong with Serious Case Reviews?

Michael Preston-Shoot - Child Abuse Review

Concern about the effectiveness of Serious Case Reviews for generating improvements in child protection in England led to proposals in the Wood review to replace the current system with rapid local learning inquiries and a national system of learning from significant incidents. This article challenges both the analysis in the Wood review and the proposals themselves. 

First Nations parenting and child reunification: Identifying strengths, barriers, and community needs within the child welfare system

Elaine Toombs, Alexandra S. Drawson, Tina Bobinski, John Dixon, Christopher J. Mushquash - Child & Family Social Work

A First Nations child welfare organization has prioritized further understanding of reunification and parenting, including identification of successes and barriers to reunification, and service needs within communities. These priorities were addressed with a community-based participatory research model and guided by a Research Advisory. 

Prevalence and Characteristics of Children Growing Up with Relatives in the UK: Briefing Paper 003, Characteristics of children living with relatives in Scotland

Dinithi Wijedasa - Hadley Centre for Adoption & Foster Care Studies, University of Bristol

This briefing paper, which is the third in a series, provides a brief overview of the characteristics of the children growing up with relatives in Scotland.

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Briefing Paper 001: The Prevalence and Characteristics of Children Growing Up with Relatives in the UK: Characteristics of children living with relatives in England: Part I

Dinithi Wijedasa - Hadley Centre for Adoption & Foster Care Studies, University of Bristol

This briefing paper is the first in a series, from an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded research study. The study explores the prevalence and characteristics of children growing up in kinship care in the UK using 2011 Census microdata.

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Child abuse and neglect in institutional settings, cumulative lifetime traumatization, and psychopathological long-term correlates in adult survivors: The Vienna Institutional Abuse Study

Brigitte Lueger-Schuster, Matthias Knefel, Tobias M. Glück, Reinhold Jagsch, Viktoria Kantor, Dina Weindl - Child Abuse & Neglect

This study examines and compares the extent of child maltreatment (physical, emotional, and sexual abuse; physical and emotional neglect) and lifetime traumatization with regard to current adult mental health in a group of survivors of institutional abuse and a comparison group from the community.