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Have child maltreatment and child placement rates declined?

Pelton, Leroy H. - In: Children and Youth Services Review 35 (2013) 11, pp. 1816-1822

It is argued that the actual incidence of child maltreatment remains elusive and is, in fact, indeterminate. Factors that might be reflected in variations in child maltreatment rates, other than child harm or endangerment at least partially attributable to caretakers, are explored. But since...

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Foster care in India: An exploratory survey of the community perceptions and prospects for implementation of foster care in a developing nation: A study in Udaipur, Rajasthan, Indi...

Forber-Pratt, Ian Anand; Loo, Stephanie; Price, Sara; … - In: Children and Youth Services Review 35 (2013) 4, pp. 694-706

This study was conducted in order to assess the prospects for implementing foster care as an alternative to the dominant system of institutional care available to orphaned and abandoned children in India. 653 families in urban Udaipur participated in a mixed-methods based assessment of...

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Justice, speed and thoroughness in child protection court proceedings: Messages from England

Dickens, Jonathan; Beckett, Chris; Bailey, Sue - In: Children and Youth Services Review 46 (2014) C, pp. 103-111

This paper reports and assesses the outcomes of a pilot programme in London to reduce the duration of child protection court proceedings. The initiative, known as the ‘Tri-borough Care Proceedings Pilot’, was intended to reduce the usual duration to 26weeks, ahead of national moves in that...

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Profile of children placed in out-of-home care: Association with permanency outcomes

Yampolskaya, Svetlana; Sharrock, Patty; Armstrong, Mary I. - In: Children and Youth Services Review 36 (2014) C, pp. 195-200

timely adoption, had the longest length of stay in out-of-home care, and were least likely to experience timely reunification …

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Juvenile court pathways to legal permanence for children in substitute care

Zinn, Andrew; Cusick, Gretchen - In: Children and Youth Services Review 36 (2014) C, pp. 90-100

considerably across legal milestone transitions; for some transitions (e.g., TPR to adoption finalization), calendar …

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Timing of exits to legal permanency from out-of-home care: The importance of systems and implications for assessing institutional accountability

Courtney, Mark E.; Hook, Jennifer L. - In: Children and Youth Services Review 34 (2012) 12, pp. 2263-2272

Achieving legal permanency (i.e., family reunification, adoption, or legal guardianship) for children placed in out …

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Is there a (transracial) adoption achievement gap?

Raleigh, Elizabeth; Kao, Grace - In: Children and Youth Services Review 35 (2013) 1, pp. 142-150

In one of the first longitudinal population-based studies examining adopted children's educational achievement, we analyze whether there is a test-score gap between children in adoptive families and children in biological families. Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, we find...

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The Brief Assessment Checklists (BAC-C, BAC-A): Mental health screening measures for school-aged children and adolescents in foster, kinship, residential and adoptive care

Tarren-Sweeney, Michael - In: Children and Youth Services Review 35 (2013) 5, pp. 771-779

to be used as brief casework monitoring tools by foster care and adoption agencies, and for treatment monitoring in CAMHS …

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Behavior problems, foster home integration, and evidence-based behavioral interventions: What predicts adoption of foster children?

Leathers, Sonya J.; Spielfogel, Jill E.; Gleeson, James P. - In: Children and Youth Services Review 34 (2012) 5, pp. 891-899

Adoption is particularly important for foster children with special mental health needs who are unable to return home …, as adoption increases parental support often critically needed by youth with mental health issues. Unfortunately … adoption when a child has behavior problems. Previous research suggests that foster parent behavioral training could …

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Making sense of adoption: Integration and differentiation from the perspective of adopted children in middle childhood

Neil, Elsbeth - In: Children and Youth Services Review 34 (2012) 2, pp. 409-416

perspectives of adopted children in middle childhood. Forty three English domestic adoptees who had been placed for adoption under … not yet exploring the meaning of adoption, another quarter of children found these issues unproblematic, and half of the …. Over half of children reported experiencing uncomfortable questioning or teasing from other children about their adoption …

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