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Services according to mental health needs for youth in foster care? – A multi-informant study
BMC Health Services Research, 2018 Background Foster children have a high risk of mental disorders. This has contributed to increased international attention to service utilization for youth in foster care.
Marit Larsen +4 more
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BMC Psychiatry, 2021 Background The use of antipsychotic medication and psychotropic polypharmacy has increased in the United States over the last two decades especially for children from low-income families and those in foster care.
Deborah Winders Davis +9 more
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Foster care re-entry: Exploring the role of foster care characteristics, in-home child welfare services and cross-sector services [PDF]
Children and Youth Services Review, 2012 This study seeks to advance our understanding of how modifiable and non-modifiable factors may impact the likelihood of re-entry into foster care. Children who entered foster care for the first time following at least one report of maltreatment and were then reunified were followed from exit to re-entry, age 18 or the end of the study period using ...
Sangmoo, Lee +2 more
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Foster care services: a consumer perspective
, 1984 This thesis is designed to present the various perceptions, feelings and experiences of the people involved in the foster care system. Its main purpose is to evaluate foster care services through a consumer's perspective, to show how the consumers, including foster children, foster parents, or natural parents have common perceptions of the system.
Monique Gibbens-Tenneriello
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Practice, 2021 In many countries, foster care is an established system for looking after children who cannot live with their birth families. It is accepted as a preferable form of provision when compared to institutional arrangements.
E. Harlow
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JAMA Network Open, 2022 Key Points Question Are state Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) policy options associated with rates of Child Protective Services involvement and use of foster care services in the US? Findings This cohort study including all 50 states and
Michelle Johnson‐Motoyama +8 more
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Health Affairs, 2022 The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, which was established in 1996 and renewed in 2005, constituted a major reform of the US welfare system. Since its renewal, few studies have examined its effects on children. We used instrumental
D. Ginther, Michelle Johnson‐Motoyama
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Exploring the support services of foster care leavers: An institutional ethnographic study.
Health and Social Care in the community, 2020 Research has documented the challenges faced by foster care leavers in their transition to independent living or adult lives revolving around education, employment, accommodation, substance use and criminal involvement. Although studies have investigated
E. Cudjoe +3 more
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Evaluation of institutional foster care services for children and adolescents in Recife.
Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, 2018 This study aimed to evaluate the structure and process of institutional foster care services for the protection of children and adolescents who are victims of neglect and/or violence in Recife.
R. Acioli +4 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 The study aimed to investigate relational outcomes of Italian emancipated foster youth across open-ended reflections about their perceptions of their relationships with the biological and foster family, with partner and peers.
Paola Cardinali +2 more
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