Showing papers in "Children and Youth Services Review in 2009"

TL;DR: In this article, a grounded theory approach was used to explore technology, virtual relationships and cyber bullying from the perspectives of students, and seven focus groups were held with 38 students between fifth and eighth grades.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted two series of meta-analyses, one using only observational assessments of attachment and one using both observational and self-report assessments, and found that children who were adopted before 12 months of age were as securely attached as their non-adopted peers.

TL;DR: Reviewing typical social-emotional development and physiological/neurological development in early childhood and the impact that IPV and trauma have on these domains of development shows the importance of early intervention with young children and caregivers living with IPV.

TL;DR: This paper uses Census and child welfare report data from Missouri to determine if Whites and Blacks are reported for child maltreatment at similar or different rates while controlling for poverty and racial homogeneity, finding some evidence of differential sensitivity.

TL;DR: Results of simultaneous and hierarchical regression analyses reveal that the presence of a mentor and the duration of the relationship at age 18 are associated with better psychological outcomes, such as fewer depression symptoms, less stress and more satisfaction with life at 18 1/2.

TL;DR: It is argued that, even under the most generous interpretation of the associations the authors estimate, large income transfer programs would have relatively small effects on children's cognitive and behavioral outcomes.

TL;DR: Data from child welfare, income maintenance, special education, hospitals, juvenile court, public mental health treatment, and census data suggest that the overrepresentation of poor children is driven largely by the presence of increased risk among the poor children that come to the attention of child welfare rather than high levels of systemic class bias.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the implementation of three evidence-based treatments addressing traumatic stress symptoms within a wraparound foster care program in Illinois, including CPT, TF-CBT, and Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress.

TL;DR: It is suggested that comprehensive interventions which target the varied and interconnected needs of these youth and families may be worthy of more study than studies that isolate the intervention focus on one problem.

TL;DR: Interviews with youth aged 16-19 in the care of the Department of Social Services in Massachusetts show how providing trauma-informed training and support for caregivers and modeling of healthy transitions can help youth avoid the many negative outcomes associated with having lived in out-of-home placements and develop into mature and independent adults.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationships of child behavioural and emotional problems, parenting self-efficacy and the foster carer-child relationship, to foster carers well-being, satisfaction with fostering and intention to continue providing out-of-home care.

TL;DR: In this paper, personal and organizational factors contributing to CW employee's intentions to remain employed in child welfare were studied as an alternative to more traditional studies of employee burnout and turnover.

TL;DR: This article examined the potential role of children's development accounts (CDAs) as a way to reduce the aspirations and expectations gap among at risk children using Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) data.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present findings from an interpretive study of 29 young adults who transitioned from foster care into adulthood without legal permanence, highlighting three strategies used to manage familial impermanence: (1) creating a self-defined permanence; (2) rejecting adoption; and (3) building permanence after foster care.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the role of parents' economic resources in children's educational attainment with special attention to assets, finding that parents' liquid assets have significantly positive associations with years of schooling, high school graduation, and college attendance, but not on college graduation.

TL;DR: In this paper, a survey of 44 young adults who were removed from their biological parents as children responded to survey questions about the internal and external resources that helped them to "beat the odds" and complete a post-secondary educational program or achieve at least junior standing in a four-year institution.

TL;DR: This review found mixed results but SFBT did show promise as a useful approach in working with at-risk students in a school setting, specifically helping students reduce the intensity of their negative feelings, manage their conduct problems, and externalizing behavioral problems.

TL;DR: This article used the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescents Health (Add Health) data to test the hypothesis of intergenerational transmission of child abuse (ITCA) using a nationally representative community sample of young parents.

TL;DR: The authors argue for an earlier identification of and intervention with children who are experiencing multiple adversity, such as those living with parents misusing substances and exposed to intimate partner violence.

TL;DR: The effects of child welfare services and program models on reducing foster care re-entry and the implications of the findings for child welfare practice and future research are described.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a developmental-epidemiological model to explore the prevalence and nature of children's exposure to and involvement in domestic violence crimes investigated by law enforcement across a population.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the possible impact of new information and communication technology systems on social work practice with children and families and identify key challenges for both practice and knowledge which need to be considered in the future.

TL;DR: Data from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-being are used to report population prevalence estimates of the child and family characteristics, incidence of maltreatment, parent and family risk factors, and community and neighborhood characteristics of children of immigrants involved in child maltreatment investigations.

TL;DR: The authors used Tobit analyses to test the statistical relationship between multiple factors (demographics, human capital, and independent living services) and yearly income for former foster youth at age 21 years.

TL;DR: Event history analysis showed that children whose reasons for initial placement in foster included caretakers with both alcohol and drug involvement were much more likely to reenter care following reunification than any of the other three groups, but drug or alcohol involvement as the initial reason for removal was also associated with higher risk of reentry.

TL;DR: In this paper, the outcomes of long term foster care from an eight-year longitudinal study of foster care placements were reported, and intervention strategies to promote resilient outcomes and facilitate children's care experience were discussed outlining implications for evidence based best practice and directions for outcome-based research with children in foster care.

TL;DR: This article examined a variety of individual and organizational factors that differentiate leavers from stayers in child welfare using a prospective design and data from the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS).

TL;DR: This article examined to what extent parents and teacher/school's social capital and resource capital predict academic achievement in early childhood and found that parent's resource capital is a better predictor of children's academic achievement than parents' social capital.

TL;DR: The authors examined the extent of this racial/ethnic divide through an alternative and new metric of childhood neighborhood poverty and found that black children are up to 14 times more likely to live in a high childhood poverty neighborhood when compared to their white counterparts, and for black children living below the poverty line, the majority will experience the double disadvantage of residing in a poor minority childhood neighborhood as well.

TL;DR: This article investigated the impact of neighborhood conditions (e.g., maltreatment rates, child care burden, poverty) and individual factors on parents' potential for abuse, and found that the relationship between substantiated maltreatment in a given community and the potential to abuse was significant.