Mental health services for children in care: investigation to elicit outcomes of direct and indirect interventions

Samuel Deuchar, Pallab Majumder - BJPsych Bulletin

The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of direct therapy and indirect consultation for treating mental health difficulties among looked after children (LAC), and also to identify any demographic or clinical predictor variables for outcomes in this cohort.

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Understanding child neglect

Debbie Scott - Child Family Community Australia, Commonwealth of Australia

This paper aims to provide a broad overview of child neglect in relation to current thinking and to generate discussion points for practitioners, policy makers and researchers.

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Parental migration and psychological well-being of left-behind adolescents in Western Nepal

Madhu Kharel, Shibanuma Akira, Junko Kiriya, Ken Ing Cherng Ong, Masamine Jimba - PLoS ONE

A school-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 626 adolescents in two districts of Western Nepal to examine the association between parental international migration and the psychological well-being of left-behind adolescents.

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Parent Emigration, Physical Health and Related Risk and Preventive Factors of Children Left Behind: A Systematic Review of Literature

Justina Racaite, Jutta Lindert, Khatia Antia, Volker Winkler, Rita Sketerskiene, Marija Jakubauskiene, Linda Wulkau and Gene Šurkien - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

The aim of this study was to systematically review the literature on physical health and related consequences of internal and international parental migration on left-behind children (LBC).

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More Than Meets the Eye: How Black and Minority Ethnic Care-Leavers Construct and Make Sense of Their Identity

Isabelle Lensvelt, Alexander Hassett, and Alicia Colbridge - Adolescents

In this study, Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used to analyse eight semi-structured interviews with black and minority ethnic (BAME) care-leavers about their experience of identity development.

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Africa Aging: 2020 International Population Reports

Wan He, Isabella Aboderin, and Dzifa Adjaye-Gbewonyo - U.S. Census Bureau and the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC)

This report illustrates current patterns and projected trends of population aging in Africa and empirical evidence of the socioeconomic circumstances and health status of older Africans. Among other findings, the report notes that older Africans, especially older women, play an active role of caregivers or guardians of younger-generation kin. 

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