FOSTER

Deborah Oppenheimer & Mark Jonathan Harris - HBO

This documentary from HBO explores the often-misunderstood world of foster care in the U.S. through compelling stories from the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, the largest county child welfare agency in the country.

Turning Resistance into Passion for Knowledge with the Tools of Agency: Teaching-Learning about Theories of Evolution for social justice among foster youth

Eduardo Vianna & Anna Stetsenko - Perspectiva

The authors of this article discuss implementing critical-theoretical pedagogy within a collaborative transformative project in a foster care program in the U.S. to showcase the activist role of the educator in providing tools of agency for youth struggling against oppression.

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Parental-group interventions for parents of children with mental health problems admitted in a tertiary care center: An experience from India

N Janardhana, B Manjula - Indian Journal of Community Medicine

The objective of this study is to understand the use of parental-group intervention for helping parents understand the problems of their children and to develop skills to deal with those problems.

Do prescribers deprescribe psychotropic medication for children in foster care?

Conor O’Brien, John T. Rapp, Erica D. Kierce - Developmental Child Welfare

For this study, the researchers conducted a retrospective descriptive study of Medicaid files for 30 individuals placed in a foster care system that included an analysis of 10 consecutive visits with a prescribing practitioner spanning 8–14 months.