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Current trends, figures and challenges in out of home child care: An internationalcomparative analysis [PDF]

open access: yesPsychosocial Intervention, 2014
This article closes the special issue of this journal about an international review of out-of-home child care, principally family foster care and residential care, tough several aspects related to adoption were included as well.
Jorge F. del Valle, Amaia Bravo
doaj   +1 more source

‘To Feel at Home Is to Feel Safe’: Unaccompanied Refugee Minors (Re)Creating a Sense of Home in Foster Care over Time

open access: yesSocial Sciences
This 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
doaj   +1 more source

Kinship Care for the Safety, Permanency, and Well‐being of Children Removed from the Home for Maltreatment

open access: yesCampbell Systematic Reviews, 2009
Child abuse and neglect are common problems across the world that result in negative consequences for children, families and communities. Children who have been abused or neglected are often removed from the home and placed in residential care or with ...
Marc Winokur   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

On the causes and effects of a broad interpretation of the concepts of “descendants” and “ascendants” in the Inheritance and Donation Tax Act

open access: yesPrawo Budżetowe Państwa i Samorządu, 2020
A determination of the affiliation to one of the three tax groups of the taxpayer and the person from whom the acquisition of goods and property rights took place is one of the key elements of inheritance and donation tax, on which the amount of the tax ...
Paweł Majka, Jacek Wantoch-Rekowski
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Family placement breakdowns in Finland – the 1997 Finnish Birth Cohort study

open access: yesNordic Social Work Research
We used the 1997 Finnish Birth Cohort to study the prevalence of long-term family foster care placement breakdowns. We examined whether and how often placement breakdowns occur among children who have been taken into care and placed in family foster care.
Kaisa Vuolukka   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Clinical Course and Impact of Breaks in Therapy for Children With Relapsed/Refractory Solid Tumors

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Pediatric relapsed or refractory (R/R) solid tumors carry a dismal prognosis, and postrelapse patient experiences are not well described. We present postrelapse outcomes, including number of R/R events and subsequent therapy regimens.
Matthew T. McEvoy   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Development and piloting of a treatment foster care program for older youth with psychiatric problems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
BACKGROUND: Older youth in out-of-home care often live in restrictive settings and face psychiatric issues without sufficient family support. This paper reports on the development and piloting of a manualized treatment foster care program designed to ...
Bertram, Julie   +6 more
core   +3 more sources

Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
wiley   +1 more source

Kinship Care for the Safety, Permanency, and Well‐being of Children Removed from the Home for Maltreatment: A Systematic Review

open access: yesCampbell Systematic Reviews, 2014
This Campbell systematic review examines whether kinship care is more effective than foster care in ensuring the safety, permanency and wellbeing of children removed from their home for maltreatment.
Marc Winokur   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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