Bullying and Psychological Distress in a Vulnerable Group: Youth in Residential Child Care

Santiago Yubero, Raúl Navarro, Manuel J. Maldonado, Myriam Gutiérrez-Zornoza, María Elche, Elisa Larrañaga - Journal of Child and Family Studies

This study was designed to extend previous research, help explain the role of the residential childcare context in bullying behaviors, and explore the relation of bullying with psychological distress among youths in residential childcare in Spain.

Healing through Connection: An Aboriginal Community Designed, Developed and Delivered Cultural Healing Program for Aboriginal Survivors of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse

Carlina Black, Margarita Frederico, Muriel Bamblett - The British Journal of Social Work

This open access article details a culturally informed approach by sharing the findings of a Cultural Healing Program (CHP) designed, developed and delivered by an Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation. The program was for Aboriginal survivors of institutional child sexual abuse who had also experienced cultural abuse having been forcibly removed from their families as children and in the process disconnected from their communities, culture and land.

Affective attunement in peer dyads containing children adopted from institutions

Carrie E. DePasquale & Megan R. Gunnar - Developmental Psychobiology

This study sought to understand how post‐institutionalized children interact with unfamiliar peers and the factors that predict the quality of these interactions in order to shed light on the processes contributing to the persistent, often increasing social deficits seen in post‐institutionalized children.

The Subjective Well-Being of Children and Young People in out of Home Care: Psychometric Analyses of the “Your Life, your Care” Survey

Mary F. Zhang & Julie Selwyn - Child Indicators Research

The current study provides an in-depth examination of the psychometric properties of the “Your Life, Your Care” survey which measured the subjective well-being (SWB) of children and young people in out of home care (OHC) in England and Wales.

Supporting Families: A review of the implementation of Part 12: Children at risk of becoming looked after as set out in the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014

Louise Hill, Nadine Fowler, Robert Porter - CELCIS

The purpose of this research was to gather opinions on, and experiences of, implementation of Part 12: Services in relation to children at risk of becoming looked after, etc. of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014.

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