Discusses postresidential school placement and its importance to the aftercare adjustment of adolescents. Focuses especially on types of support needed for the educational success of the former client. (CM)

Discusses the use of an adaptation of the Mowrer device for the treatment of enuretic children, that is, children who involuntarily and unconsciously pass urine in bed while asleep after an arbitrary age limit of 4 years. (Author/RK)

Discusses the special problems that arise in a children's institution when the death of a staff member occurs and describes the events of one such case. (MS)

Three-year follow-up interviews of White primiparous mothers less than 25 years old at the time of the first live birth showed that the key factors affecting mothers' adjustment were psychiatric impairment, lack of available resources, and mothers' permissiveness in discipline. (CM)

Reports on the first segment of a longitudinal study of the effects of transracial and transcultural transplantation of Korean children into American foster families. (CM)

Reviews discrepancies in the research on the learning and development of homeless children. Describes a child care program at a homeless shelter that enrolls both homeless and nonhomeless children; and presents case studies of two successfully adjusted homeless children. Discusses homeless children's resiliency and the need to assess their…

Discusses four reasons for maintaining contact between the natural parents and their placed children and presents advantages this contact has for the placed child. (SDH)

Presents conceptual problems facing the research worker in a residential center. Shows that determining effectiveness of residential treatment must be preceded by making basic decisions on precisely what the goals are, and in what time frame and dimensions--symptoms or adaptability achievement--will be measured. (SS)

Discusses the rigorous testing by students which must be undergone by new social workers at an alternative school for adolescents. Describes one social worker's successful handling of students' distrust of new persons and fear of rejection. (SAK)

The impact of closed and open adoption for the older adopted child and the adoptive and biological parents is examined in order to provide knowledge that may be useful in choosing the type of adoptive placement that best meets the needs of particular children and families. (Author/RH)

Notes that life books are well-established tools for helping foster children cope with past events and future plans. Describes a here-and-now process for compiling life books that concerns the child's present life and is more accessible for the child and social worker than traditional life books. Provides case examples to demonstrate the model's…

This study examined postadoption experiences of parents who adopted children in state custody 18-24 months prior to interview. Parents rated the adjustment year as being more smooth than stressful. They saw how the child contributed to their lives, but were less positive about available social supports, and were dissatisfied with the speed of…

Physiological changes reflecting psychological or emotional stress may be evidenced particularly strongly during the first 2 or 3 years of a child's life if the normal dialogue" with the mother does not take place. (Editor)

Rebuilding the capacity to form meaningful human relationships is often the essential task in the treatment of disturbed foster children. (Editor)

Presents the emotional factors related to the learning disabilities of children with minimal brain dysfunction and offers suggestions to aid the day care worker in counseling the parents of such children. (Author/SDH)