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Fostering children's resilience
Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 1997Resilience is relevant to nurses because of its implications for health. Research on the resilience of children and adolescents has proliferated over the past five years. However, the specific processes underlying resilience and outcome variables require further study. Furthermore, few intervention studies have been conducted.
M, Stewart, G, Reid, C, Mangham
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Pediatrics, 1982
The poor quality of health services rendered to the half million foster children in this country is well documented elsewhere in this issue.1 This is an area of pediatric care of which we cannot be proud. Schor's "unfortunate discovery that children who have been under the protective and hopefully remedial care of the foster care system continues to ...
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The poor quality of health services rendered to the half million foster children in this country is well documented elsewhere in this issue.1 This is an area of pediatric care of which we cannot be proud. Schor's "unfortunate discovery that children who have been under the protective and hopefully remedial care of the foster care system continues to ...
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Typologies and Outcomes for Foster Children
Child and Youth Care Forum, 2005This study reports on the use of the Child Behaviour Checklist for children aged 4–18 (CBLC/4–18) as a tool for creating typologies for children and relating these to foster care outcomes. Findings regarding outcomes were consistent with previous studies that focused on child variables rather than profiles, however profiles do appear to be helpful with
Strijker, J. +2 more
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Children's Voices: The Perceptions of Children in Foster Care.
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 2004Scant research exists on how abused and neglected children view the foster care experience and how these perceptions vary by demographic characteristics and placement type. Data come from a national probability sample of children placed in child welfare supervised foster care for at least 1 year.
Mimi V, Chapman +2 more
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The Impact of Fostering on Foster Carers' Own Children
Adoption & Fostering, 2002Findings from a questionnaire survey of over 100 foster carers' own children, by Angie Watson, are presented in the context of a literature review of what is known about the impact of fostering on foster carers' own children. A mixture of findings are described, some very positive and some extremely negative, raising cause for concern.
Angie Watson, Denis Jones
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The pediatrician and children in foster care
Pediatrics, 1977There are approximately 330,000 children living in foster care under the auspices of public and private social agencies in the United States. The vast majority-approximately 80%-have come into care because of severe personal and social problems that have afflicted their parents.
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Child & Family Social Work, 2004
Researchers, practitioners, journalists and politicians increasingly recognise that foster care throughout the world is in a state of crisis. There are more and more children needing care and, as residential alternatives dry up, more of these children are being assigned to foster families. This book reports the major findings of a two-year longitudinal
James Barber +2 more
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Researchers, practitioners, journalists and politicians increasingly recognise that foster care throughout the world is in a state of crisis. There are more and more children needing care and, as residential alternatives dry up, more of these children are being assigned to foster families. This book reports the major findings of a two-year longitudinal
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Reported hyperphagia in foster children
Child Abuse & Neglect, 1991In evaluating a large group of foster children from biological families with a high incidence of alcohol and/or drug abuse, there emerges a subsample of children with both atypical eating patterns as well as atypical behavior patterns. Their physical and behavioral characteristics are described. These children are neither obese nor "failure to thrive."
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Pediatrics, 1975
Approximately 350,000 children live with 150,000 foster families in the United States during any given year. These children are in foster homes because the degree of social disorganization in their natural families has led to a societal decision to separate them from their natural families. Significant basic causes include unemployment, poor education,
Henry M. Seidel +8 more
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Approximately 350,000 children live with 150,000 foster families in the United States during any given year. These children are in foster homes because the degree of social disorganization in their natural families has led to a societal decision to separate them from their natural families. Significant basic causes include unemployment, poor education,
Henry M. Seidel +8 more
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Fostering resilience in children
Journal of Health Visiting, 2021We know that resilience helps people to cope with adversity and provides opportunities to experience feelings of wellbeing. How can health visitors support families to strengthen and develop resilience in children and young people?
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