The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of care at foster homes on the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of children living with HIV (CLHIV), attending a referral ART Centre, and to compare their HRQOL with children living in their own homes.

This presentation will review the needs of traumatized children in foster care and appropriate clinical response, including diagnosis, treatment planning, and follow-up.

This chapter aims to discuss the methodological implications of research with children and adolescents who are living in foster care, with emphasis on the use of visual methods and reflexive interviews.

This article explores the mental health outcomes for unaccompanied refugee minors (URM) and offers recommendations for improving psychological wellbeing.

Young unaccompanied asylum seekers have been portrayed as vulnerable, resilient or both. Those granted residency in Europe are offered support by health and social care systems, but once they leave the care system to make independent lives, what part can these services play?

Guided by an ideation-to-action theoretical framework for suicide prevention, the goal of the proposed research study is to describe and identify risk and protective factor correlates of youth suicidal behaviour among those at highest risk for suicide – orphans who reside in a low- and middle-income country (LMIC) institutional setting. 

This talk will explore the adaptation of FOCUS, an evidence-based, skill-building preventive intervention, for foster families and foster youth in college and provide clinical adaptations.

The goal of this presentation is to describe a unique manualized Adoption-Specific Intervention (ADAPT) intervention, developed specifically for families adopting older foster care youth. Important lessons for mental health clinicians working with families of adopted youth will be discussed.

Anecdotal and limited objective studies have indicated that children and youth being raised in nonparental settings, such as those with custodial grandparents or in foster care, show a higher need for mental health services. They are often prescribed psychotropic medications at a higher rate. The authors set out to study the prevalence of this trend in a sample group of suburban community health center child and adolescent patients who are being served through an outpatient school-based program of Prince William County, Virginia in the US. 

This study investigated whether mothers experience changes to their health and social situation after having a child taken into care by child protection services, then compared these outcomes with those found in mothers whose children were not taken into care.