Caregiver–Adolescent Disagreement on the Mental Health of Youth in Foster Care: The Moderating Role of the Caregiver Relationship

Lenore M. McWey, Ming Cui, Ashley N. Cooper, Thomas Ledermann - Child Maltreatment

The goal of this study was to investigate the levels of disagreement on adolescent mental health symptoms among caregivers and adolescents in foster care, to examine factors associated with caregiver–adolescent discrepancies, and the potential moderating role of caregiver–child closeness on the link between the length of time the youth lived with caregivers and discrepancies regarding adolescent mental health symptoms.

Institutional Care is Associated With Changes in Brain Electrical Activity: Results From a Longitudinal, Randomized Control Trial of Children in Romania

Ranjan Debnath, Alva Tang, George A. Buzzell, Nathan A. Fox, Charles H. Zeanah, Charles A. Nelson - Biological Psychiatry

This study from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP) examines the brain electrical activity of children and young people who have been institutionalized.

Professional foster families in the reunification process—Polish experience

Jan P. Basiaga, Anna Róg, Beata Zięba‐Kołodziej - Child & Family Social Work

This study examined the extent to which professional foster families fulfil their tasks to reintegrate families, what attitudes professional foster families assume towards the idea of reintegration, and to what extent and how professional foster families support a child separated from his or her family and parents in the process of reintegration.

Promoting Successful Transitions Beyond Institutional Care: A Programme-based Service Delivery Model Linked to a Case Management System

Pamhidzayi Berejena Mhongera, Antoinette Lombard - Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk

This paper reports on findings from an evaluation study of two institutions providing transition programmes to adolescent girls transitioning from institutional care in Zimbabwe.

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