Negotiating developmental projects: Unaccompanied Afghan refugee boys in Norway
Informed by a cultural psychological approach to development, the authors analysed interviews with 18 unaccompanied Afghan boys and their professional caregivers.
Online consultations on the draft Nurturing Care Framework
The first online consultation on the Nurturing Care Framework for early childhood development was held between 24th January and 6th February, a summary of the responses submitted will be available in March.
The effectiveness of social work services for families whose children are in temporary custody
The article aims to uncover what hinders social workers to carry out effective work in providing social services for families whose children are in temporary custody.
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The role of social work in international child protection: best practices in stakeholder cooperation
The role of social work in international child protection: best practices in stakeholder cooperation
The focus of this paper will be the intersection of law, policy implementation, and social work in child protection, specifically child protection involving children who are separated by an international border from their families.
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Do social work education, job description, and cultural competence foster child-welfare caseworkers' therapeutic alliances?
This study explored whether the strength of caseworkers' engagement with families in the child-welfare system was associated with the caseworkers' academic degrees, job responsibilities and environments, and/or ethnicity.
Use of parental disability as a removal reason for children in foster care in the U.S.
This study uses a large administrative dataset, the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS), to explore how public child welfare agencies in the United States use parental disability in their data collection efforts through examining the use of parental disability as a removal reason.
“It's just not right to move a kid that many times:” A qualitative study of how foster care alumni perceive placement moves
This study examined two research questions: (1) how do foster care alumni remember their experiences of placement moves in foster care, and (2) how do foster care alumni perceive the consequences of their foster care placement moves on their lives today?
Transition Programming for Sustainable Livelihoods Beyond Institutional Care in Zimbabwe: Service Providers’ Perspectives
This article explores the perspectives and programme needs of transition service providers (institutions and the government) in preparing and supporting adolescent girls leaving institutional care in Harare, Zimbabwe.
The relationship between child protection contact and mental health outcomes among Canadian adults with a child abuse history
The aim of the current study was to examine whether contact with CPS is associated with improved mental health outcomes among adult respondents who reported experiencing child abuse, after adjusting for sociodemographic factors and abuse severity.
Mutual benefits: The lessons learned from a community based participatory research project with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and foster carers
This paper presents a community based participatory research project, which adopted a photovoice approach with seven unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) living in foster care in the United Kingdom.