Dyadic Associations Between Grandparent–Child Relationship Quality and Well-Being in Chinese Left-Behind Families: Mediating Role of Resilience

Yanlin Zhou, Nancy Xiaonan Yu, Peiqi Dong & Qiong Zhang - Journal of Happiness Studies

Informed by the family systems theory and the ecological view of well-being, this study aimed to investigate how grandparent–child dyads show reciprocal associations between relationship quality and subjective well-being (SWB) and the extent to which resilience accounts for such reciprocal associations.

Families Offering Children Unfailing Support (FOCUS) Fatherhood Program: Changing Child Welfare through Child Support and Parenting Skills

M. Angela Nievar, Suhasini Ramisetty-Mikler, Mahasin F. Saleh, Natasha Cabrera - Children and Youth Services Review

The Fathers Offering Children Unfailing Support (FOCUS) program serves fathers referred by Child Protective Services and the Attorney General’s Office. The goal of the authors of this paper was to investigate changes in fathers’ report of parenting involvement and fathers’ instrumental support through child support payments through two separate studies of community samples.

Reforming Child Welfare in the Post-Soviet Space: Institutional Change in Russia

Meri Kulmala, Maija Jäppinen, Anna Tarasenko, Anna Pivovarova

This book provides new and empirically grounded research-based knowledge and insights into the current transformation of the Russian child welfare system. It focuses on the major shift in Russia’s child welfare policy: deinstitutionalisation of the system of children’s homes inherited from the Soviet era and an increase in fostering and adoption.

Barriers and solutions: Australian Indigenous practitioners on addressing disproportionate representation of Indigenous Australian children known to statutory child protection

Fiona Oates - AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

This article outlines the views of Indigenous practitioners collected as part of a doctoral study exploring the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander practitioners who undertake child protection work in Australia.

Deconstructing doing well; what can we learn from care experienced young people in England, Denmark and Norway?

Elisiv Bakketeig, Janet Boddy, Tonje Gundersen, Jeanette Østergaard, Fidelma Hanrahan - Children and Youth Services Review

This paper addresses the conceptualization of ‘outcomes’ for care experienced people through an in-depth longitudinal study of 75 young adults in Denmark, England and Norway.

Stressful life events and delinquency among Chinese rural left-behind adolescents: The roles of resilience and separation duration

Quanquan Wang & Xia Liu - Children and Youth Services Review

The current study aimed to clarify the relationship between stressful life events and delinquency among left-behind adolescents by examining the moderating roles of resilience and separation duration in this process.

Care leaver needs and accessibility: Findings from the first large‐scale project in Switzerland

Marion Jarczok, Beatrice Knecht Krüger, Tanja Mitrovic, Gomera Gérard, Andreas Jud - Child & Family Social Work

This study investigated Switzerland's first large‐scale care leaver programme and analysed associations between care leavers' needs and contactability in a sample of 459 care leavers.

Mental Health Service Interventions for Left-behind Children in Mainland China: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials

Miao Wang, Rebeccah Sokol, Hui Luan, Brian E. Perron, Bryan G. Victor, Shiyou Wue - Children and Youth Services Review

This study aimed to systematically review experimental studies of interventions that promote mental health wellbeing of left-behind children (LBC) in mainland China.

Differential associations of threat and deprivation with emotion understanding in maltreated children in foster care

Pablo Carrera, Jesús M. Jiménez‐Morago, Maite Román, Esperanza León - Child & Family Social Work

The present study analysed associations between threat and deprivation exposure and different facets of emotion understanding in a sample of maltreated children in foster care.

Transitioning Support Services Survey Findings Report

Laura Horvath, Elli Oswald, and Allison Coble - Faith to Action Initiative, in partnership with Changing the Way We Care

This study seeks to map the landscape of support for transitioning residential care centers, specifically considering organizations or individuals who are providing or could provide assistance through on-the-ground, individualized coaching or technical support.

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The Aims and Outcomes of Public Inquiries into the Care and Protection of Children: Should They Be Undertaken Differently?

Sharon Vincent, Kim Holt, Nancy Kelly, Emma Smale - Child Abuse Review

This paper examines experts' perceptions of the aims and outcomes of public inquiries, before moving on to consider whether there are more effective and efficient ways of investigating national scandals.

Research protocol of a multifaceted prospective mixed-method longitudinal study: Navigating Through Life – Western Australian study of transitions from out-of-home care

Lauren Parsons, Donna Chung, Reinie Cordier, David Hodgson, Stephan Lund, Philip Mendes, Melissa O’Donnell, Richard Parsons & Stian Thoresen - BMC Public Health

This paper details the protocol for Navigating Through Life, a study that utilises novel research methods to better understand the pathways and outcomes of young people as they leave out-of-home care (OOHC) in Western Australia (WA).

Differential associations of threat and deprivation with emotion understanding in maltreated children in foster care

Pablo Carrera, Jesús M. Jiménez‐Morago, Maite Román, Esperanza León - Child & Family Social Work

The present study analysed associations between threat and deprivation exposure and different facets of emotion understanding in a sample of maltreated children in foster care.

Not What I Expected: Training Social Worker Students in Community-Based Child Prevention of Child Maltreatment

Carmit Katz, Jill D. McLeigh & Asher Ben-Arieh - International Journal on Child Maltreatment: Research, Policy and Practice

This article describes the local training model developed to implement Strong Communities for Children, a community-based child maltreatment prevention initiative in Israel, and presents a qualitative analysis of field journals maintained by three waves of students.

A new life in Norway: the adaptation experiences of unaccompanied refugee minor girls

MartikaIrene Brook & Fungisai Gwanzura Ottemöller - Children and Youth Services Review

The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of unaccompanied refugee minor (URM) girls’ adaptation to life in Norway focusing on their strengths, and to examine the social and structural factors that influence settlement.

Experiences of trafficked and sexually exploited boys transitioning from shelter programmes into the community: Findings from a longitudinal study

Laura Cordisco Tsai, Vanntheary Lim, Channtha Nhanh - Children & Society

This article explores the perspectives of Cambodian boys who have experienced human trafficking and sexual exploitation on their experiences transitioning out of shelters and re‐entering the community.

Reconciling care and justice in contesting social harm through performance and arts practice with looked after children and care leavers

Tonimarie Benaton, Tamsin Bowers‐Brown, Thomas Dodsley, Alix Manning‐Jones, Jade Murden, Alexander Nunn, The Plus One Community - Children & Society

This paper reports findings from an innovative arts‐based intervention with Looked After Children and young people and concludes that holding these competing value sets in creative tension is central to the success of the programme in helping young people to cope with and contest social harm.