This paper advocates for use of the life course perspective as a guiding research paradigm when investigating the educational experiences of adult care leavers.
Based on primary and secondary source materials, this article traces the evolution of the US social work field's response to the needs of unaccompanied immigrant and refugee youth during the past two centuries.
The present research aimed to describe and compare three new second-level intervention models to improve the care of unaccompanied migrant minors in Italy.
This study contributes to a body of scholarship on ‘localising children’s rights’ by presenting findings from an ethnographic case study of an institution for HIV-infected/affected children in Rajasthan, India.
This study answers the following question: “How does the case-specific context influence the practitioners' decision-making process regarding matching in family foster care?”
This article is a case study and analysis of the death of a foster carer in Scotland at the hands of the child for whom she was caring.
Using national and international law, court observations, and field experiences, this paper argues a case for deinstitutionalization of children in India, by empowering the families, thereby protecting children's right to a family and preventing abuse and exploitation.
The current study presents findings from a survey of child welfare caseworkers' experiences with reunifications and focuses on practices and key factors at the casework practice and at the system-environment level to assist in achieving successful reunification.
This study analyzes semistructured interviews of 15 foster parents on how foster parents perceive the sibling relationships of youth in foster care and ways to promote these relationships.
