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Analysis of professionals and family foster care on advantages and difficulties of visits between foster children and their biological families [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Contact between a foster child and birth parents play an important role in relation to the foster child’s wellbeing. The main aim of this study is to give voice to social workers and foster families about contact visits.
Bernedo-Muñoz, Isabel Maria   +3 more
core  

The effectiveness of Video-feedback Intervention to promote Positive Parenting for Foster Care (VIPP-FC) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Background: Foster children are at higher risk of the development of behavior and emotional problems, which can contribute to the development of insecure attachment bonds with their foster parents and (subsequently) to placement breakdown.
Alink, L.R.A. (Lenneke R.A.)   +6 more
core   +4 more sources

Phenotypic Diversity and Outcomes in Pediatric NMDA Receptor Encephalitis: A 15‐Year Retrospective Study from the Largest Children's Hospital in the United States

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Anti‐NMDAR encephalitis (NMDARE) is an autoantibody‐mediated disorder characterized by seizures, movement disorders, neurocognitive deficits, and psychosis, but the complete phenotypic heterogeneity, and outcomes are incompletely understood in children.
Alexander J. Sandweiss   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

EFFECTS OF ATTACHMENT STYLES OF FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE PARENTS ON THE RELATIONAL INTERACTIONS OF THEIR FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE CHILDREN [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Children enter the Child Welfare System for a variety of complex reasons. These reasons often point towards parents’ inability to provide appropriate protection and safety for their children.
Mountjoy, Taylor Paige   +1 more
core  

Differences in greeting behaviour towards humans with varying levels of familiarity in hand-reared wolves (Canis lupus). [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Socialized wolves' relationship with humans is a much debated, but important question in light of dog domestication. Earlier findings reported no attachment to the caretaker at four months of age in a Strange Situation Test, while recently attachment to ...
Gácsi, Márta   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Dual‐Targeting Cuproptosis and Mitophagy via a Flavopiridol‐Copper Nanoplatform Potentiates Immunotherapy Against Uveal Melanoma

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
This study develops a GSH‐responsive nanoplatform, NP@Fla‐Cu, to co‐activate cuproptosis and excessive mitophagy in uveal melanoma. The nanoplatform enhances tumor‐specific copper delivery, depletes antioxidant defenses, and remodels the tumor immune microenvironment.
Hong Ren   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Attachment, Fostering Parenting and Placement Stability [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
A significant number of children remain in foster care for long periods of time. Among this vulnerable population there is a high rate of placement disruption.
DeVolld, Renae L.   +1 more
core  

Adult Sex Ratio as a Demographic Feedback Linking Mating Systems, Parental Care, and Evolution

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Breeding systems are some of the most diverse social behavior, and our team is investigation the evolutionary causes of this diversity. This review summarises our research carried out at the University of Bath. We argue that demographic components of wild populations, especially the adult sex ratio, plays a key role driving breeding system variation ...
Tamás Székely, Oscar G. Miranda
wiley   +1 more source

Work, Care, Family Life, and More: The Layered Framings of Swedish Foster Care

open access: yesSocial Inclusion
Being a foster parent is not a profession and does not provide a salary—a placed child is supposed to be given a life in a regular family. However, foster parents receive fees and reimbursements, and they may be offered supervision and professional ...
David Wästerfors
doaj   +1 more source

FOSTER FAMILY AS A FORM OF UNITS FOR ORPHANS AND CHILDREN WITHOUT PARENTAL CARE (CASE STUDY OF SARATOV AND BELGOROD REGIONS)

open access: yesSovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2013
This paper discusses the development and functioning of foster families, one of the priority interventions for children without parental care in Russia and abroad.
Oksana Vladimirovna Besschetnova
doaj   +1 more source

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