Incidence and neighborhood-level determinants of child welfare involvement
This study evaluates the association between children placed in out-of-home care and neighborhood-level factors using eight years of administrative data.
Cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) to support parental contact for children in out-of-home care
The aim of this cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) was to test the effectiveness of a contact intervention for parents having supervised contact with children in long-term OOHC.
Restraint, seclusion and time-out among children and youth in group homes and residential treatment centers: a latent profile analysis
The purpose of this study was to enhance understanding of restrictive interventions in residential units as a means of improving professional practices involving children and youth in out-of-home care.
Assisting decisions in child protection service institutions with the RIC – The Risk Indication in Child sexual abuse
The RIC (Risk Indication in Child sexual abuse) and its screening version (RIC:SV) are actuarial risk assessment instruments, developed at the Austrian Federal Evaluation Centre for Violent and Sexual Offenders and designed for child protection services to assess the likelihood of sexual recidivism in male contact child sexual abusers who still or again live within a family including children.
Youth’s rights and mental health: The role of supportive relations in care
This study builds upon and enhances existing knowledge by exploring the moderating role of social support from educators in residential care and the association between perceived rights and psychological difficulties.
Child Maltreatment in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Proposed Global Framework on Research, Policy and Practice
The current paper aims to suggest a framework for risk and protective factors that need to be considered in child protection in its various domains of research, policy, and practice during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Developmental consequences of emotional abuse and neglect in vulnerable adolescents: A multi-informant, multi-wave study
The present study examined how emotional abuse and emotional neglect-exposure in adolescence uniquely related to psychological symptoms and social impairment.
‘Discuss it with your legal guardian’: Challenges in practising care for young unaccompanied refugee minors
Informed by developmental perspectives that consider young people's development through participation across contexts in everyday life and by research into how parents in ‘ordinary’ families organize care, the authors of this article developed a study based on interviews with 15 unaccompanied refugee minors and their professional caregivers at residential care institutions.
State of the Nation: Understanding Public Attitudes to the Early Years
This report sets out the findings from the most comprehensive study of attitudes towards bringing up children from conception to 5 years ever undertaken in the United Kingdom.
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Children's Rights and Inclusion Strategy
The Scottish Children’s Rights and Inclusion Strategy aims to ensure children feel able to speak openly and honestly in hearings, and that their views are given real weight in the decision making process.
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