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Listening to Children in Care: A Review of Methodological and Theoretical Approaches to Understanding Looked after Children's Perspectives
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Holland, Sally – Children & Society, 2009
This article reviews 44 refereed journal articles published between 2003 and 2008. All of the articles attempt to directly uncover the experiences or perspectives of young people cared for by the state in foster, residential or kinship care homes. The review reveals that this field is developing a rich body of evidence derived from a broad range…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Residential Care, Children, Childhood Attitudes
A Survey of Problematic Sexualized Behaviors of Children in the New York City Child Welfare System: Estimates of Problem, Impact on Services, and Need for Training.
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Baker, Amy J. L.; Schneiderman, Mel; Parker Rob – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2001
New York City Administration for Children's Services agencies were surveyed about problematic sexualized behaviors (PSB) of children within the child welfare system. Results revealed that almost all agencies reported PSB within their foster boarding home and residential treatment centers. A majority of agencies perceived PSB to be a significant…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Child Welfare, Children, Foster Care
The Role of Licensing in Child Placement and Protection.
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Gazan, Harold S.; Flynn, John P. – Child Welfare, 1986
Explores licensing of out-of-home care as nonservice protective approach to child welfare distinguished from placement protective services. Discusses individual and role conflicts in relation to common goals of community protection of vulnerable children. Reviews administrative and organizational issues in light of assuring consistent and uniform…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Adoption, Certification, Child Welfare
Reactive Attachment Disorder in Looked-After Children
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Millward, R.; Kennedy, E.; Towlson, K.; Minnis, H. – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2006
The great majority of children living in foster or residential care have been abused and neglected. Mental health problems are common and the nature of these problems may be rooted in early attachment relationships. The carers of 82 children in care in Scotland and 125 children from local schools completed questionnaires on mental health problems…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Emotional Problems, Residential Care
Institutional Abuse: The Role of Leadership, Authority and the Environment in the Social Sciences Literature.
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Nunno, Michael A. – Early Child Development and Care, 1997
Presents an ecological model identifying four factors: the child, caregivers, facility environment; and exogenous factors contributing to child maltreatment in residential care. Facility factors include organizational culture and staffing patterns. Caregiver factors include gender, age, training, and status. Child factors include gender, age, and…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Abuse, Child Welfare, Children
Child Welfare Outcome Research in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
Maluccio, Anthony N.; Ainsworth, Frank; Thoburn, June – 2000
Ideally, there is a close interaction between research and practice in human services, and program planning is based on such interaction, particularly the findings of outcome research. This book reviews the bodies of outcome research about child welfare programs from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, particularly outcomes in…
Descriptors: Adoption, Child Welfare, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries