Maria Roth

TL;DR: Children in Balkan countries experience a high burden of violence victimization and national-level programming and child protection policy making is urgently needed to address this.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the manner in which individual (optimism, depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and self-concept) and contextual factors (family and peer influences) contribute to the construction of adolescents' future expectations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the current state of participation of Roma children in education in European countries, with a special focus on Romania, and discussed some issues about how the right to education is, or is not, respected in the region.

TL;DR: The ICAST-C can be used to validly compare levels of physical, psychological, and sexual violence, neglect and witnessing violence in school-aged children across countries and can also be used for validly comparing the relations between these forms of violence and their covariates, predictors, and outcomes across countries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the cumulative vulnerabilities faced by the Roma, and discuss the main anti-discrimination policies and international treaties adopted in Romania in the context of recent EU developments, including the strategies for the Roma Decade.