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Key principles for foster carers and adopters who are helping a child to move to adoption [PDF]

, 2020
When children cannot safely return home from care, adoption provides legal security, love and belonging in a new family. But adoption also means that the child must be separated from a foster family where he or she has felt secure and loved, as well as ...
Beek, Mary, Neil, Elsbeth, Schofield, Gillian   +2 more
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Development and piloting of a treatment foster care program for older youth with psychiatric problems [PDF]

, 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, Fedoravicius, Nicole, Havlicek, Judy, McMillen, J. Curtis, McNelly, David, Narendorf, Sarah Carter, Robinson, Debra   +6 more
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Defining Roles in Pediatric Palliative Care: Perspectives From Oncology and Palliative Care Teams

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Early integration of pediatric palliative care (PPC) is associated with improved symptom management, quality of life, and healthcare utilization for children with cancer. Despite this, variation persists in how PPC is understood, operationalized, and integrated within pediatric oncology programs. In particular, ambiguity surrounding
Leeat Granek, Lori Wiener, Stephanie Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Donna Johnston, Fyeza Hasan, Adam Rapoport, Nathasha Datoo, Kimberley Widger, Sumit Gupta, Karen Fergus, Anthony K. C. Chan, Alisha Kassam, Emily McCullogh, Dave Lysecki   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

FEBS 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

Prognostic Implications of Sleep Architecture for Patients Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit With Status Epilepticus

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Status epilepticus (SE) is associated with significant mortality. Sleep architecture may reflect normal brain function. Impaired sleep architecture is associated with poorer outcomes in numerous conditions. Here we investigate the association of sleep architecture in continuous EEG (cEEG) with survival in SE.
Ran R. Liu, Marcus C. Ng, Gavin P. Winston, Sabrina Schaly, Garima Shukla, Lysa Boissé Lomax   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Healthcare with unconditional positive regard: the KICS clinic medical home model for children in out-of-home care

Frontiers in Pediatrics
BackgroundOn 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, Heather Allan, Rachel A. Wilson, Gretchen Domek, Brooks R. Keeshin, Brooks R. Keeshin, Amanda Bird Hoffert Gilmartin, Amanda Bird Hoffert Gilmartin   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

Campbell 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, Amy Holtan, Keri E. Batchelder   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ang Pag-Aruga sa Di Tunay na Kanila: Factors Affecting Foster Carers to Foster Care a Child

JPAIR, 2019
If parents are unable, unwilling, or unfit to take good care of a child, the child might be better in a new home environment. An alternative way called foster caring, which is given by foster carers would likely take place.
William Jo Se Billote, Gericka Mae Dizon, Jarrah Kay Fernandez, Rhose Ann Narvasa, Hannah Viernes   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tobacco use among children in Romanian foster care homes [PDF]

The European Journal of Public Health, 2016
Children living in facilities under the supervision of child protection authorities are vulnerable to early smoking experimentation. This is the first study to report the prevalence and correlates of smoking behaviour among foster care home residents in Romania.We conducted an in-person, cross-sectional survey of 914 resident children in 148 foster ...
Ferencz Iozsef, Lorand, Abram, Zoltan, Schmidt, Lorand, Balazs, Peter, Kristie L, Foley   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

A Qualitative Analysis of Patient Perspectives and Preferences in Lupus Management to Guide Lupus Guidelines Development

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective A patient‐centered approach for chronic disease management, including systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), aligns treatment with patients’ values and preferences, leading to improved outcomes. This paper summarizes how patient experiences, perspectives, and priorities informed the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 2024 Lupus Nephritis (LN)
Shivani Garg, Izzy Hartel, Lisa R. Sammaritano, Anca Askanase, Bonnie L. Bermas, Maria Dall'Era, Alí Duarte‐García, Victoria P. Werth, Brad Rovin, Reem A. Mustafa, Amy S. Turner, Bené Williams, Brian L. Ung, Hiya Bhavsar, Monique C. Gore‐Massy, Nahirannette Pulido, Natacha Guerrero, Natalie M. Smith, Wambui Machua, Linda T. Hiraki, Mary Beth Son   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source