Disentangling the effect of out-of-home care on child mental health

Helen Baldwin, Nina Biehal, Linda Cusworth, Jim Wade, Victoria Allgar, Panos Vostanis - Child Abuse & Neglect

This research investigated the association between care placement and the presence of child mental health problems after controlling for children’s pre-care experiences. It also identified factors associated with mental health problems among children in care in the UK.

Spanking and young children’s socioemotional development in low- and middle-income countries

Garrett T. Pace, Shawna J. Lee, Andrew Grogan-Kaylor - Child Abuse & Neglect

This study uses data from 215,885 children in 62 countries from the fourth and fifth rounds of UNICEF’s Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) to examine the relationship between spanking and child well-being.

Child abuse in Pakistan: A qualitative study of knowledge, attitudes and practice amongst health professionals

Kayleigh M Maul, Rubaba Naeem, Uzma Rahim Khan, Asad I Mian, Aisha K Yousafzai, Nick Brown - Child Abuse & Neglect

This study aimed to: (1) Explore the challenges that healthcare professionals (HCP) face when managing cases of abuse; (2) Explore cultural beliefs and understand how these shape practice and (3) Identify training needs.

“A child who is hidden has no rights”: Responses to violence against children with disabilities

Janet Njelesani - Child Abuse & Neglect

Guided by social-ecological theory, this study explores responses to violence against children with disabilities, including preventative measures and treatment of victims in the West African countries of Guinea, Niger, Sierra Leone, and Togo.

What does empathy sound like in social work communication? A mixed‐methods study of empathy in child protection social work practice

Amy Lynch, Fiona Newlands, Donald Forrester - Child & Family Social Work

This study contributes to the development of understanding of empathy as a social work skill through a mixed‐methods analysis of 110 audio recordings of meetings in a child protection service between workers and parents, applying a coding framework for analysis.

Adapting the Friends of the Children programme for child welfare system‐involved families

Amy M. Salazar, Kevin P. Haggerty, Susan Walsh, Bailey Noell, Erinn Kelley‐Siel - Child & Family Social Work

This paper reviews the Friends of the Children (FOTC) long‐term mentoring programme in the US and how it was adapted to serve children and families with child welfare system involvement.

The Therapeutic Family Care Program: A 10-year community implementation of Treatment Foster Care in Ontario, Canada

Dillon T. Browne, Jacqueline Johnson, Erin Beatty, Mary Price Cameron, Duane Durham, Aron Shlonsky - Developmental Child Welfare

The present study describes a community implementation of treatment foster care (TFC) for children and youth involved with child welfare in Ontario, Canada.

Outcomes in adulthood of adoption after long-term foster care: A sibling study

Anders Hjern, Bo Vinnerljung, Lars Brännström - Developmental Child Welfare

To inform decisions about permanent care arrangements, the authors of this study used Swedish national population registers to create a sibling population consisting of 194 children born 1973–1982 who had been in out-of-home care (OHC) at least 5 years before adolescence but were never adopted (50% boys) and their 177 maternal birth siblings who also had been in OHC at least 5 years before their teens but were adopted before adolescence (52.5% boys).