Do drug treatment services predict reunification outcomes of mothers and their children in child welfare
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Mothers who were treated in programs providing a "high" level of family-related or education/employment services were approximately twice as likely to reunify with their children as those who weretreated in programs with "low" levels of these services.About:
This article is published in Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment.The article was published on 2009-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 121 citations till now.read more
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Interventions to address parenting and parental substance abuse: conceptual and methodological considerations.
Emily N. Neger,Ronald J. Prinz +1 more
TL;DR: This review focuses on 21 outcome studies that tested dual treatment of substance abuse and parenting and found that results were generally positive with respect to reduction of parental substance use and improvement of parenting.
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Factors associated with reunification: A longitudinal analysis of long-term foster care
TL;DR: Examination of how child welfare worker engagement with families and parent receipt of needed services shaped the outcomes for children in long-term foster care showed reunification to be likeliest for neglected children who had caseworkers deeply involved with their families.
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Integrated Substance Abuse and Child Welfare Services for Women: A Progress Review.
TL;DR: A review of empirical literature reveals improvements in service utilization and outcomes for women when substance abuse and child welfare services are integrated, and strategies developed provide useful guidelines for developing components of effective, evidence-based programs for substance-involved women in the child welfare system.
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Maternal substance use and child protection: a rapid evidence assessment of factors associated with loss of child care
TL;DR: Factors identified in this review provide the evidence to inform a prevention agenda and afford services the opportunity to design interventions that meet the needs of those mothers who are more likely to lose care of their children.
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Maternal substance abuse and disrupted parenting: Distinguishing mothers who keep their children from those who do not
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the complicated interplay of how maternal risk and protective characteristics and service elements are associated with reunification. And they discuss implications of their findings for child welfare policy and practices.
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