This study is based on diaries maintained by three social workers in relation to 15 families that were the subject of interventions by the child protective services in Sweden.
For this legal note, four experienced attorneys who have litigated many child protection cases were asked about the alleged overreaching that US Child Protective Services (CPS) effectuates by improperly removing a child from its parent(s), seemingly without sufficient cause.
The authors of this article aimed to perform a systematic review of the literature to describe the health status of refugee children on entering reception countries in Europe.
This review synthesises and examines the limited published literature on the impact of traumatic refugee experiences on the mental health and development of Unaccompanied Refugee Minors (URMs).
The aim of this review is to analyse the existing published studies regarding these caregivers’ relationships, with a focus on programs in South Asia.
In this article, institutions in Russia, China, Ghana, and Chile are described with reference to the circumstances that lead to children’s institutionalization, resident children’s social-emotional relationships, and unique characteristics of each country’s institutional care (e.g., volunteer tourism in Ghana, and shifting demographics of institutionalized children in China).
This study seeks to address a number of important questions with regard to children in public care, commonly referred to in the UK as ‘looked-after’ children.
This chapter argues that poverty per se should never constitute the basis for removing children from their parents and seeks to understand the British situation, in order to see how poverty is treated in relation to child welfare in Britain.
The objective of this study was to compare the outcomes for the Neuro-Physiological Psychotherapy (NPP) intervention group to those of a control group.
This article presents the perspectives of three authors - who have collective experience in administration, practice, and research in both systems - on the interaction between the adult corrections system and the child welfare system in the USA and the implications of this interaction for children with incarcerated parents.
This study investigated whether information regarding parents' response to an attachment-based intervention impacted placement decisions and agreement among decision makers.
This study examined quality of life and associated factors in a random sample of 225 children and adolescents placed in foster family homes.
The aim of this study was to document the health needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and adolescents in OOHC attending the paediatric service at the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service (VAHS) between February 2014 and February 2016.
This online course on implicit bias was developed by the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) and the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity to aid practitioners in understanding and addressing racial bias in the US child protection system.
This article examines whether children under age five whose household receives remittances are more likely to utilize higher quality healthcare providers than those without remittances in Cambodia, a country with high rates of migration and a pluralistic health system.
Using a case study approach, this article will review a pre-college summer program designed specifically for youth transitioning from foster care, the National Social Work Enrichment Program (NSEP).
This study from Innovative Issues and Approaches in Social Sciences examined perceptions and practices of domestic adoption in Adama City in Oromia/Ethiopia. The study reveals that people’s perception towards adoption practice, adoptive parents and children is mixed; it could be positive and encouraging or negative and discouraging.
In the present study, focused on Latin American migrant women, transnational ties are considered a protective factor of family functioning, conditioned by premigratory variables. The working hypothesis is that increased frequency of reunited mothers' communication with and remittances to their children during the period of separation prior to the reunion will be linked to better communication, cohesion, flexibility, satisfaction, and family resources, according to the reunited mothers' perception.
The aim of this module from the book Rights-based Integrated Child Protection Service Delivery Systems is to review the service delivery systems for welfare, protection and justice for children in India.
This report presents the findings of research conducted by Child Soldiers International to assess the effectiveness of release, psychosocial recovery and reintegration interventions (commonly referred to as ‘DDR’) for girls associated with armed groups in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
According to this research, the unintended consequences of limited housing pathways puts Indigenous women at significant risk of having their children removed by Child Protection. The research examines how housing and other service responses need to be improved to meet the needs of Aboriginal individuals and families in the aftermath of domestic and family violence.
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the recommending of contact in special guardianship cases, and to provide data on what contact social workers are recommending, the factors they take into consideration, and the reasons for their decisions.
The aim of this module from the book Rights-based Integrated Child Protection Service Delivery Systems is to learn about children in specific situations of emergency and the need for Integrated Child Protection Centres to provide rights-based services for them at primary, secondary and tertiary levels of prevention.
The purpose of this paper is to address how young unaccompanied refugees in Norway actively engage in interpersonal relationships.
This dissertation study aimed to describe and understand adolescent girls’ subjective experiences of life in an after-care facility after transitioning out of institutionalized care in Delhi, India.
