Healthcare with unconditional positive regard: the KICS clinic medical home model for children in out-of-home care [PDF]
Frontiers in PediatricsBackgroundOn any given day in the United States over the past five years 300,000–400,000 children and youth have been in an out-of-home (OOH) placement, typically kinship or foster care.
Rebecca Orsi-Hunt +7 more
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Quality of life of patients with schizophrenia treated in foster home care and in outpatient treatment [PDF]
Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 2015 Mate Mihanović,1,2 Branka Restek-Petrović,1,2 Anamarija Bogović,1 Ena Ivezić,1 Davor Bodor,1 Ivan Požgain3 1Psychiatric Hospital “Sveti Ivan”, Zagreb, 2Faculty of Medicine Osijek, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, 3Department of ...
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Mandates are not enough: placement provider and systems factors that drive ambulatory healthcare use for children in foster care [PDF]
Frontiers in PediatricsIntroductionIn the United States, children are mandated to receive healthcare when they enter foster care and regularly thereafter; states may require more frequent visits.
Sarah J. Beal +11 more
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Social SciencesThis study explores what unaccompanied refugee minors (URMs) emphasise as important to (re)create a sense of home in foster care over time. Through a longitudinal design consisting of semi-structured, photo-elicitation interviews and by drawing on the ...
Frederikke Jarlby +2 more
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Foster Care and Its Transformation in Slovakia – Proclamation and Reality [PDF]
Sociální Pedagogika, 2015 The author presents the process of transforming residential institutional care and foster family care in the Slovak Republic at three levels. It is a socio-political context that led firstly to the fact that "education" and "health" orphanages passed ...
Albín Škoviera
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Different sizes, similar challenges: Out of home care for youth in Germany and the Netherlands [PDF]
Psychosocial Intervention, 2014 While there is a large difference in the number of young inhabitants in the Netherlands and Germany, their child protection frameworks are quite similar. In both countries, child protection services are mainlyfocused on youth aged 0 to 18 and regulations
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Children, 2021 Parental substance misuse and mental health issues are major factors associated with infant placement into out-of-home care. Such placements may result in disruption and/or cessation of breastfeeding.
Stacy Blythe +4 more
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Home First: Stability and Opportunity in Out-of-Home Care
Psych, 2023 In this report, the concept of “Home First” is introduced for those children who require long-term, non-kin placements. The term “Home First” connotes a placement engendering stability and continuity; this concept is introduced in conjunction with an ...
Steven P. Segal
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Mental health of children and adolescents in foster care residential institutions in Northern Taiwan
Taiwanese Journal of Psychiatry, 2020 Objectives: Studies reposted that children and adolescents entering foster care systems are at risk of mental health conditions. In this study, we intended to describe the prevalence of mental illnesses as well as the characteristics of emotional and ...
Shin- Heng Shen +4 more
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LIVING IN FOSTER CARE AND IN A CHILDREN’S HOME: VOICES OF CHILDREN AND THEIR CAREGIVERS
Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 2009 Foster care is clearly seen as the preferred option in alternate care of the vulnerable child inSouth Africa and internationally (Kiraly, 2001; Long, 2007; McKay, 2002; Morei, 2002).
Nevashnee Perumal, Madhu Kasiram
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