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Childhood Adversity and Affective Touch Perception: A Comparison of United Kingdom Care Leavers and Non-care Leavers [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 In the United Kingdom, the most common reasons for a child to come under the care of social services are neglect and abuse. Such early childhood adversity is a risk factor for social-isolation and poor mental health in adulthood.
Shaunna L. Devine +7 more
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Improving outcomes for care leavers: evaluating a care leaver's assessment of need tool
Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2006 Care leavers' poor outcomes across a range of areas have been well documented since the 1980s. Their vulnerability to homelessness, poor educational achievement, mental ill health and offending (Biehal, Claydon, Stein and Wade,1992; Stein and Wade, 2000;
Wendy Harrington
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IMPACT OF RESIDENTIAL CARE CULTURE ON QUALITY OF LIFE OF CARE LEAVERS
International Journal of Child, Youth & Family Studies, 2018 The quality of life of young adult residential care leavers is influenced by several factors. The impact of the residential care environment can be conceptualised as organisational culture.
Ivan Lukšík, Lucia Hargašová
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Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2014 A good education forms a cornerstone in the foundation for a positive future. For all children and young people it offers the basis for a later career, a potential route out of disadvantage and an environment in which to learn the crucial social skills ...
Victoria Hull
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Nordisk Välfärdsforskning, 2023 Nordic and international research recognises the vulnerabilities and often poor outcomes for care leavers. However, their interrelationship with housing or homelessness as a specific outcome of concern is not well established in Norwegian or Nordic ...
Veronika Paulsen, Stian Thoresen
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International Journal of Emotional Education, 2022 This paper reviews prior applications of co-production principles and their potential impact on the mental health and wellbeing of care leavers. There is minimal research available on care leaver narratives of their experiences and consequent mental ...
Megan Pound
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Occupational Aspirations of Care Leavers and their Pathways to Work
Social Work and Society, 2021 Young people leaving residential care (so-called care leavers) face various challenges during their transition. During the process of leaving care, they also deal with questions of their future occupation or profession and integration into the labour ...
Sabrina Göbel +3 more
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Colloquium, 2020 This paper aims at identifying models of adulthood dominating in the discourse concerning care leavers. The conducted qualitative analysis of reports devoted to the process of gaining independence by care leavers from the period 2010-2020 indicates that ...
Hanna Kędzierska
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Social Work and Society, 2021 Ageing out of the child protection system involves many difficulties for youth leaving care. Care leavers with intellectual disabilities or mental health problems are at even greater risk.
Gemma Crous +2 more
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International Journal of Child, Youth & Family Studies, 2020 Findings from youth research have shown that, due to the development of the transitional phase of “emerging adulthood”, the family has become increasingly significant for young adults as a source of support and as a safety net. In contrast, care leavers
Stephan Sting, Maria Groinig
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