To understand the incomprehensible: A qualitative study of parents' challenges after child removal and their experiences with support services

Ellen Syrstad & Tor Slettebø - Child & Family Social Work

This article elucidates the challenges parents face when they lose the care of their children and their experiences of family counselling as a support service in Norway.

Features of birth families with foster children in Andalusia

González Pasarín, Lucía; Portillo Lobillo, María; Bernedo-Muñoz, Isabel MariaAutoridad Universidad de Málaga; Fernández-Gómez, María Ángeles; Salas Martínez, María D.; [et al.] - Repositorio Institucional Universidad de Málaga

The aim of the presentation is to describe the personal features of biological families whose children are in non-kinship foster care and with whom they have face-to-face contact in Málaga, Granada and Jaén (provinces of Andalusia, Spain).

Features of non-kinship foster care children with birth family contact in Andalusia

Portillo Lobillo, María; González Pasarín, Lucía; Bernedo Muñoz, Isabel María; Salas Martín, María D.; Fernández Gómez, María Ángeles; [et al.] - Repositorio Institucional Universidad de Málaga

The aim of the presentation is to describe the personal features of non-kinship foster care children who have visits with their birth family in Málaga, Granada and Jaén (provinces of Andalusia, Spain).

Child Neglect and the Broader Context of Child Victimization

Heather A. Turner, Jennifer Vanderminden, David Finkelhor, Sherry Hamby - Child Maltreatment

Using a pooled data set of two waves of the National Surveys of Children’s Exposure to Violence, this study investigates links between indicators of socioeconomic resources and lifetime exposure to two different forms of child neglect (physical and supervisory), examines how neglect is associated with the risk of other types of victimization, and estimates the impact of neglect on trauma symptoms.

The Pragmatic Language Skills of Severely Neglected 42-Month-Old Children: Results of the ELLAN Study

Mélissa Di Sante, Audette Sylvestre, Caroline Bouchard, Jean Leblond - Child Maltreatment

The goals of this study were twofold: (1) to compare the pragmatic language skills (i.e., social communication skills) of 42-month-old neglected children with those of same-aged non-neglected children and (2) to measure the prevalence of pragmatic difficulties among the neglected children.