Do social work education, job description, and cultural competence foster child-welfare caseworkers' therapeutic alliances?

Tyrone C. Cheng, Celia C. Lo - Child & Family Social Work

This study explored whether the strength of caseworkers' engagement with families in the child-welfare system was associated with the caseworkers' academic degrees, job responsibilities and environments, and/or ethnicity.

Use of parental disability as a removal reason for children in foster care in the U.S.

Sharyn DeZelar, Elizabeth Lightfoot - Children and Youth Services Review

This study uses a large administrative dataset, the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS), to explore how public child welfare agencies in the United States use parental disability in their data collection efforts through examining the use of parental disability as a removal reason. 

“It's just not right to move a kid that many times:” A qualitative study of how foster care alumni perceive placement moves

Ruth M. Chambers, Rashida M. Crutchfield, Tasha Y. Willis, Haydée A. Cuza, Angelica Otero, Stephanie G. Goddu Harper, Heather Carmichael - Children and Youth Services Review

This study examined two research questions: (1) how do foster care alumni remember their experiences of placement moves in foster care, and (2) how do foster care alumni perceive the consequences of their foster care placement moves on their lives today?

Transition Programming for Sustainable Livelihoods Beyond Institutional Care in Zimbabwe: Service Providers’ Perspectives

Pamhidzayi Berejena Mhongera - Children & Society

This article explores the perspectives and programme needs of transition service providers (institutions and the government) in preparing and supporting adolescent girls leaving institutional care in Harare, Zimbabwe.

The relationship between child protection contact and mental health outcomes among Canadian adults with a child abuse history

Tracie O. Afifi, Jill McTavish, Sarah Turner, Harriet L. MacMillanc, C. Nadine Wathen - Child Abuse & Neglect

The aim of the current study was to examine whether contact with CPS is associated with improved mental health outcomes among adult respondents who reported experiencing child abuse, after adjusting for sociodemographic factors and abuse severity. 

Mutual benefits: The lessons learned from a community based participatory research project with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and foster carers

Justin Rogers, Sam Carr, Caroline Hickman - Children and Youth Services Review

This paper presents a community based participatory research project, which adopted a photovoice approach with seven unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) living in foster care in the United Kingdom.

Foster care promotes adaptive functioning in early adolescence among children who experienced severe, early deprivation

Kathryn L. Humphreys, Devi Miron, Katie A. McLaughlin, Margaret A. Sheridan, Charles A. Nelson, Nathan A. Fox, Charles H. Zeanah - The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

The Bucharest Early Intervention Project sought to examine the effects of foster care as an alternative to institutional care for abandoned infants in Romanian institutions.

Are there population biases against migrant children? An experimental analysis of attitudes towards corporal punishment in Austria, Norway and Spain

Hege Stein Helland, Katrin Križ, Sagrario Segado Sánchez-Cabezudo, Marit Skivenes - Children and Youth Services Review

This article examines whether migrant children are viewed differently than native children, employing an experiment on a representative sample of the populations of Austria, Norway and Spain.