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GROOTMOEDERS IN KAYAMANDI SE ERVARING VAN FAMILIEPLEEGSORG

open access: yesSocial Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 2006
Pleegplasings by familie as vorm van substituutsorg, is die vinnigs groeiende kindersorgdiens in die Verenigde State van Amerika (voorts genoem die VSA) as gevolg van ’n afname in geskikte pleegouers (Wilson & Chipunga, 1996:387).
Dora van Rensburg, Sulina Green
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Learning Collaborative Events With Child Welfare and Health Care Providers Improve Systems Knowledge and Intent to Change

open access: yesJournal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2021
Introduction: Children in foster care are at higher risk of health problems. These risks present challenges to achieving permanency, safety, and well-being.
Jeanette M. Scheid   +3 more
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Services according to mental health needs for youth in foster care? – A multi-informant study

open access: yesBMC 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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Through a relational lens: reflections about foster care experience in Italian emancipated foster youth

open access: yesFrontiers 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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Occupations related to the sphere of social services in the foster care system - barriers in their functioning

open access: yesRozprawy Społeczne, 2020
The article concerns the problems of professions related to the sphere of social services in the foster care system. The Act on family support and foster care system of June 9, 2011 introduced changes designed to improve family support in overcoming ...
Magdalena Julita Zmysłowska
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L’affidamento familiare: le strategie educative elaborate dagli affidatari

open access: yesJournal of Educational, Cultural and Psychological Studies, 2021
Foster care is a condition of welcoming children with families in serious difficulty, legally regulated, aimed at guaranteeing to minors a suitable space for growth, and to families of origin the possibility of overcoming the problems so as to consent ...
Paola Ricchiardi, Cristina Coggi
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Careful: An administrative child welfare and electronic health records linked dataset

open access: yesData in Brief, 2022
Between 2012 and 2017, N = 2814 youth between the ages of 4 and 20 were in child protective services (CPS) custody in Hamilton County, Ohio, and placed in out-of-home care.
Sarah J. Beal   +5 more
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Foster care: motivations and challenges for foster families

open access: yesSocial Work and Society, 2017
The article focuses on the experience of foster care as reported by a group of foster parents involved in a research study in a Province of the Northern Italy. The Province, which provides foster care services and supports the local services, carried out
Cinzia Canali   +2 more
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Effect of Psychotropic Medication on Foster Care Experience and Outcomes: A Causal Analysis using Administrative Data

open access: yesInternational Journal of Population Data Science, 2018
Children in foster care experienced abuse, neglect, or dependency, and for the safety and well-being of the child, must be taken out of their biological home. Not surprisingly, children in foster care have higher rates of serious emotional and behavioral
Angela You Gwaltney
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Qualitative studies of the lived experiences of being in foster care: A scoping review protocol

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2023
Introduction Lived experience of foster care is an area of limited research. Studies tend to focus on foster caregiver retention rates, education performance outcomes, evaluations and policy development. Although these studies are important, they provide
Claire Hayes   +3 more
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