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Counselling Foster Parents [PDF]

, 1968
My interest in this topic is the result of having been a foster parent for a period of one year for a group home for emotionally disturbed teenage boys. When my husband and I undertook this project, we had been married for two years and had one daughter ...
Thompson, Airdrie
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Large‐scale bidirectional arrayed genetic screens identify OXR1 and EMC4 as modifiers of αSynuclein aggregation

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Activation of the mitochondrial protein OXR1 increases pSyn129 αSynuclein aggregation by lowering ATP levels and altering mitochondrial membrane potential, particularly in response to MSA‐derived fibrils. In contrast, ablation of the ER protein EMC4 enhances autophagic flux and lysosomal clearance, broadly reducing α‐synuclein aggregates.
Sandesh Neupane, Lea Nikolić, Lorenzo Maraio, Thomas Goiran, Nathan Karpilovsky, Stefano Sellitto, Vangelis Bouris, Jiang‐An Yin, Ronald Melki, Edward A Fon, Adriano Aguzzi, Elena De Cecco   +11 more
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Challenges and their overcoming when implementing the restructuring of children's care homes in Lithuania [PDF]

SHS Web of Conferences, 2019
The aim of the study is to reveal challenges and the ways to overcome them in the context of the restructuring of childcare, based on the experience of social workers who work in children's care homes, which participate in the restructuring.
Gudzinskiene Vida, Raudeliunaite Rita
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Emancipated Foster Youth Returning to Birth Parents [PDF]

, 2010
Although foster youth should only emancipate from care if reunification or adoption is not possible by the time the youth must age out, some youth still return to the same families from whom they were ...

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Why human connection is the true metric of research success

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Human‐centred mentorship can be shaped by mentor attributes, actions, intrinsic drive and career ambition. Drawing on reflections across Singapore and France, as well as workshop insights from FEBS‐IUBMB ENABLE 2024, this article shows that human‐centred mentorship creates the conditions for sustainable growth, well‐being and retention in research ...
Timothy Lin Yun Tan, Mattias Wei Ren Kon, Xavier Coumoul, Fun Man Fung   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

VIEWS OF FOSTERCHILDREN ABOUT CONTACTS WITH PARENTS AND RELATIVES

Human Research in Rehabilitation, 2016
This paper presents the results of research on the views of children about contacts with their birth parents and relatives. The views of children are seen through their experience in contacts and the wishes of children that relate to future contacts ...
Ljiljana Skrobić
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Historical Perspectives on Foster Care Payments: Changing Practices During the 20th Century

Social Inclusion
Payment of foster carers has long been a controversial issue, reflecting the question of whether fostering is a voluntary or professional activity. This article explores explanations for the change that took place during the twentieth century concerning ...
Ann-Sofie Bergman
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Exploratory Analysis of ELP1 Expression in Whole Blood From Patients With Familial Dysautonomia

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Familial dysautonomia (FD) is a hereditary neurodevelopmental disorder caused by aberrant splicing of the ELP1 gene, leading to a tissue‐specific reduction in ELP1 protein expression. Preclinical models indicate that increasing ELP1 levels can mitigate disease manifestations.
Alejandra González‐Duarte, Lucy Norcliffe‐Kaufmann, Maria Luisa Cotrina, Zenith Khan, Kaia Dalamo, Patricio Millar Vernetti, Matthew Lawless, Elisabetta Morini, Monica Salani, Marla Weetall, Jana Narasimhan, Agostino G. Rocha, Susan A. Slaugenhaupt, Horacio Kaufmann   +13 more
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Bulgarian Foster Parents and Money: Strategies, Identity Work, and Relations With the Child

Social Inclusion
Recent research indicates that the cost of residential care per child in Central and Eastern Europe is three to five times higher than that of foster care (UNICEF, 2024). Short‐term foster care requires an intensive initial investment, but it reduces the
Radostina Antonova, Gergana Nenova
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The Structure of the Methodology "Motivation for the Adoption of an Orphan Child by a Foster Family"

Психолого-педагогические исследования, 2021
The results of validation of a new version of the methodology "Motivation for the adoption of an orphan child by a foster family" (author V.N. Oslon) are presented. The analysis allowed us to identify 9 scales (types of motivation), as well as to clarify
Oslon V.N., Odintsova M.A., Semya G.V., Kolesnikova U.V.   +3 more
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