Helping Families With Co-Occurring Substance Use and Child Maltreatment: Strategies and Best Practices
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The plans, goals, and concerns of pre-emancipated youth in foster care
This study focuses on the plans, goals, and concerns of foster care youth prior to leaving care. Participants were 179 pre-emancipated youth between the ages of 17 and 20 years old (M = 17.82, SD = 0.79) from a large metropolitan area in Southern California.
“We are merchandise on a conveyer belt”: How young adults in the public child protection system perceive their participation in decisions about their care
The aim of this study is to show young people's feelings about their experiences with participation in decision-making in public care in the United States.
Parental drug use and permanency for young children in foster care: A competing risks analysis of reunification, guardianship, and adoption
This study seeks to contribute to the literature on child welfare and parental drug use in the United States by answering several research questions.
Privatization and subsidization of adoption services from foster care: Empirical evidence
This paper analyzes empirical differences in adoption services of public and private agencies in the United States.
The Intergenerational Effect of Cambodia's Genocide on Children's Education and Health
This study investigates the intergenerational impact of conflict on the educational and health outcomes of children born years after the conflict in Cambodia ended by exploiting geographical variation in the intensity of the genocide that occurred during the Khmer Rouge (KR) regime in Cambodia.
Supporting children and families affected by a family member’s offending – A Practitioner’s Guide
The aim of this guide is to enable practitioners to support children affected by a family member’s offending within a whole family approach.
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Understanding Latino Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Through a Bioecological Lens
The purpose of this article is to provide a summary of the published research addressing the challenges and strengths of Latino grandparents raising grandchildren in the United States.
Paper: Effects of early institutionalization on the development of emotion processing: a case for relative sparing?
This study tested the capacity to perceive visual expressions of emotion, and to use those expressions as guides to social decisions, in three groups of 8- to 10-year-old Romanian children: children abandoned to institutions then randomly assigned to remain in ‘care as usual’ (institutional care); children abandoned to institutions then randomly assigned to a foster care intervention; and community children who had never been institutionalized.