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Cognitive Functioning of Children in Out-of-Home Care. [PDF]
J Child Adolesc Trauma, 2023 AbstractPurpose: Most children who enter out-of-home care (OHC) have been subjected to prolonged maltreatment. Maltreatment potentially contributes to a cumulative deficit in neurocognitive maturation and development that is likely to proceed with the child’s placement into OHC and persist throughout adulthood.
Eiberg M.
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Trends in Child Protection and Out-of-Home Care [PDF]
Pediatrics, 2013 BACKGROUND:Over the past decades, increased knowledge about childhood abuse and trauma have prompted changes in child welfare policy, and practice that may have affected the out-of-home (OOH) care population. However, little is known about recent national trends in child maltreatment, OOH placement, or characteristics of children in OOH care.
Conn, Anne-Marie +5 more
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Children and youth services review, 2021 Foster care is intended to be a temporary placement option. Viewing permanency as central to child well-being, current U.S. policies aim to limit the length of time a child spends in out-of-home foster placements. There is little recent research, however,
Lenore Mcwey, M. Cui
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Decision-making on out-of-home care: The case of Flanders
Children and Youth Services Review, 2023 Out-of-home placement decisions are complex and have a strong impact on children and their parents. Factors influencing these decisions can be grouped in four domains: case characteristics, decision maker characteristics, factors related to the organization of the decision maker, and external factors. This study aimed at investigating the role of case,
Johan Vanderfaeillie +4 more
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International Journal of Child Abuse & Neglect, 2022 BACKGROUND Although researchers have found an increased risk for psychopathology among maltreated adolescents placed in out-of-home care, different trajectories of psychopathology by out-of-home placements have not been previously studied.
Kajung Hong +6 more
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Children's appraisals of their experiences in out-of-home care [PDF]
Children and Youth Services Review, 2010 Few studies have asked children directly about their experiences in out-of-home care. This study uses data collected from 180 nine- to-11-year-old children currently in out-of-home care who were asked about their perceptions and appraisals of out-of-home care.
Dena Miller, Dunn +2 more
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International Journal of Human Rights, 2021 This paper introduces the Charter of Lifelong Rights in Childhood Recordkeeping in Out-of-Home Care, centred on the critical, lifelong and diverse information and recordkeeping needs of Australian and Indigenous Australian children and adults who are ...
F. Golding +4 more
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Journal of Progressive Human Services, 2021 This article reports on narrative interviews conducted as part of the Rights for Children and Youth Partnership Project exploring the experiences of 25 Black Caribbean youth (ages 16–26) who have navigated the child protection system in Ontario, Canada ...
Charlotte Akuoko-Barfi +3 more
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Trauma-informed Family Contact Practice for Children in Out-of-home Care
British Journal of Social Work, 2021 Trauma knowledge and skills are needed to support relational safety for children in out-of-home care and birth family contact is a particular area where trauma-informed approaches are critical.
S. Collings +3 more
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The Regulation of Out-of-Home Care [PDF]
British Journal of Social Work, 2006 The regulation of out-of-home care in Australia has become increasingly formalised and detailed, partly driven by a recent wave of audits of abuse in foster care. The emergence and possible consequences of this increased regulation are examined, with a particular focus on relative care.
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