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The Motivations of Individuals and Families Who Foster or Adopt a Child Living With a Disability: A Scoping Review

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This scoping review explores the motivations of individuals and families from industrialized Western countries who foster or adopt a non‐biological child living with a disability. It addresses the global challenge of a shortage of foster carers, particularly for the overrepresented population of children with disabilities.
Lindy Sherring   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the Significance of Child‐Pet Relationships for Psychosocial Well‐Being: A Scoping Review

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The role of pets in supporting children's mental health and well‐being has attracted growing attention. Although pets are often described as emotionally significant companions—offering comfort, security and stability—the effects of pet ownership are not universally positive or consistent.
Anna‐Karin L. Larsson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Young People’s Perceptions of Preparedness for Leaving Care: A Mixed Methods Study

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An increasing number of young adults in Ghana begin adulthood from residential care. Many face challenges after leaving care, partly because they are unprepared for independent adult life. This study examines the level of preparedness and the factors influencing it among young people in residential care in Ghana.
Kwabena Frimpong‐Manso, Yvonne Norman
wiley   +1 more source

Milestones and Horizons: Highlights from the 4th International Children's Palliative Care Network Conference in Manila, Philippines. [PDF]

open access: yesEcancermedicalscience
Daniels-Howell C   +15 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Reimagining the White Child as Other: Taika Waititi's Decolonial Play in James and the Giant Peach With Taika and Friends

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how James and the Giant Peach with Taika and Friends (JGPTF) (2020) challenges the colonial logics embedded in Roald Dahl's construction of the universal white child. Through collaborative digital play, humour and Māori relational epistemologies, Taika Waititi unsettles James's position as the normative child of futurity,
Diana Sandars
wiley   +1 more source

Child mental health after institutional care in Azerbaijan: prevalence and correlates. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Public Health
Ismayilova L   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

There Is a Story Behind This Object: The University Museum as a Stage

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objects are a critical part of most museum exhibitions and their purpose within a university museum setting is linked to the stories they carry and how these are in turn communicated to museum visitors. This paper explores these stories through the practice of museum theater, which uses performance to bring historical stories within the museum
Stephanie Jenkins
wiley   +1 more source

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