An Interdisciplinary Framework for Understanding Child Welfare
This chapter outlines the interdisciplinary framework for understanding child welfare used throughout the book 'New Directions in Children’s Welfare.'
The Emotional and Sensory Dimensions of Child Welfare
This chapter, from the book 'New Directions in Children’s Welfare,' explores the emotional and sensory dimensions of child welfare as an embodied practice which takes place across diverse sites, spaces and places.
Residential and foster care
This chapter from the book 'Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry' focuses on foster care and residential care practices around the world and the benefits and challenges of supporting foster care interventions, transitioning away from the use of institutional care.
Effects of Early Neglect Experience on Recognition and Processing of Facial Expressions: A Systematic Review
This article reviews and analyzes data from recent literature about recognition and processing of facial expressions in individuals with history of childhood neglect.
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Orphanhood Prevalence, Living Arrangements and Orphanhood Reporting in Lesotho, Malawi and Zimbabwe
This study explores the relationship between orphanhood prevalence, living arrangements and orphanhood reporting.
Gendered Perceptions of Migration Among Ghanaian Children in Transnational Care
This study empirically measures the perceptions towards maternal and paternal migration of male and female children who stay behind in Ghana.
Survey – research and evaluations on alternative care
Child Frontiers have been commissioned by the Better Care Network to carry out a review of published, on-going and planned research on children's care. Please complete this short survey by 31st January 2018 to let us know about any research or evaluations carried out by or funded by your organisation on care.
Abandoned Children Admitted to the Nursery of Lome (Togo): Place of HIV/AIDS Infection
The authors conducted a case-control study of 102 children with positive HIV serology out of 956 received and screened at admission at Sainte Claire Nursery (SCN) in Lomé from 1st January 2000 to 31st December 2014 with the aim of to determine the social profile, the weight evolution and the fate of these children admitted in a difficult situation.
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Substance use among older youth transitioning from foster care: Examining the protective effects of religious and spiritual capital
Among older youth transitioning from the foster care system, this longitudinal study examined the association of religious and spiritual capital to substance use in the past year at age 19.