Physical education, school sport and looked-after-children: health, wellbeing and educational engagement [PDF]
Sport, Education and Society, 2019 In recent years, there has been unprecedented awareness within policy and research of the disadvantageous trajectories that looked-after children and young people (LACYP) often face; particularly in relation to their education, health and wellbeing ...
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Is Nurturing Attachments training effective in improving self-efficacy in foster carers and reducing manifestations of Reactive Attachment Disorder in looked after children? [PDF]
Adoption & Fostering : The Quarterly Journal of British Agencies for Adoption & Fostering, 2019 Looked after children have frequently experienced complex developmental trauma manifesting as behavioural, cognitive and emotional challenges and difficulties in forming secure relational attachments to caregivers.
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Supporting foster carers to meet the needs of looked after children: A feasibility and pilot evaluation of the Reflective Fostering Programme [PDF]
Developmental Child Welfare, 2019 This study presents the feasibility and pilot evaluation of the Reflective Fostering Programme (RFP), a recently developed, group-based program to support foster carers, based on the concept of “reflective parenting.” This innovative development follows ...
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Child & Family Social Work, 2019 Background: Reunification of looked after children with their birth parents is the most common route to permanency for looked after children in the UK (Department for Education, 2018).
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Use of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire to identify treatment needs in looked-after children referred to CAMHS [PDF]
Developmental Child Welfare, 2019 Background: In England and Wales, the single-informant Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is used to assess and monitor looked-after children’s (LAC) mental health; and some targeted Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) include
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Exploring Attachment and Internal Representations in Looked-After Children
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 BackgroundThis article explores the Story Stem Assessment Profile (SSAP), a narrative-based measure, for the assessment of internal representations in children between the ages of 4 and 11 years old.MethodsThe findings draw upon two samples of children ...
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Health Expectations, 2019 Background Looked after children and care leavers (denoted as LAC) are often described as a ‘hard to reach' group of young people, and their voices are rarely sought to inform academic research.
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BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2019 Background Looked after children and care leavers have an increased risk of drug and alcohol use compared to their non-LAC peers. Despite high prevalence rates within this population, looked after children are reported to show low levels of engagement in
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Looked after children: an overview for the dental team [PDF]
British Dental Journal, 2023 Lucy Ridsdale +3 more
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Inequalities in the dental health needs and access to dental services among looked after children in Scotland: a population data linkage study [PDF]
Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2017 Alex D. McMahon +10 more
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