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… Risk and protective factors for depression and substance use in an adolescent child welfare sample 2011 … Romano, Elisa Rouillard, Louise Children and Youth Services Review, Volume 33, Issue 11, pp. 2127-2137. Risk and … Youth living in out-of-home care exhibit risk for impairments in mental health functioning, yet despite adverse maltreatment experiences youth also exhibit resilience.  The current study examines the association of maltreatment and health indicators on the mental health functioning of youth.  Specifically, depressive symptoms and substance use were examined in a sample of 12 to 15 year…

… Promotive and risk factors as concurrent predictors of educational … 2011 Authors Flynn, Robert J. Tessier, Nicolas G. Children and Youth Services Review, 33, 2498-2503. Promotive and risk factors as … Extended care and maintenance (ECM) is a transitional living program that provides financial, instrumental, and emotional support to former youth in out-of-home care in the province of Ontario.  Youth who have been discharged from out-of-home care are often ill prepared for the transition, and are more likely than the general population to exhibit behaviours associated with poorer outcomes (…

Canada is one of several countries to have preserved the legal defense for parents to use corrective and “reasonable” force against children. In 2004, the Supreme Court of Canada amended Section 43 of the Criminal Code to specify the criteria that delineates non-abusive force as that which is administered 1) by a parent; 2) to children between the ages of 2 and 12 years; 3) to a child who is…

… Knowledge Transfer and Exchange: Disseminating Canadian Child Maltreatment … Research, Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. 51-64. Knowledge Transfer and Exchange: Disseminating Canadian Child Maltreatment … use research evidence to inform clinical, administrative, and policy-level decision-making. In an effort to strengthen … Child welfare organizations are increasingly interested in developing strategies to use research evidence to inform clinical, administrative, and policy-level decision-making. In an effort to strengthen the Canadian child welfare research base used to inform policy, practice, and programming, the Public Health Agency of Canada developed the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and…

… On the nature and scope of reported child maltreatment in high-income … for improving the evidence base 2013 Authors Jud, Andreas Fluke, John Alink, Lenneke R. A. Allan, Kate Fallon, … opportunities for improving the evidence base This review article examines the question of how high-income … This review article examines the question of how high-income countries (Belgium, Canada, Germany, The Netherlands, New Zealand, South Korea, Switzerland and the United States) are able to collect and use child welfare focused statistical data to inform policy and practice. The authors concluded that all of the countries examined have either incomplete or inaccurate data, and therefore have no…

… The Association Between Childhood Maltreatment and Gambling Problems in a Community Sample of Adult Men and Women 2010 Authors Hodgins, David C. Schopflocher, Don … the results estimates of the provincial population. After reviewing the literature, the authors examined a variety of … The purpose of this study was to examine the association between childhood maltreatment and gambling disorders, using data from an ongoing longitudinal study of gambling (the Leisure Lifecycle and Lifestyle Project). The study used random digit dialing to recruit participants from the province of Alberta, Canada. The authors examined the responses of 1,145 adult participants who completed the…

… Grandparents' and Social Workers' Experiences with the Child Welfare … 2007 Authors Gladstone, James W. Brown, Ralph A. Child and Youth Services Review, Volume 29, Issue 11, pp. 1439-1453 Grandparents' and … The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the circumstances under which grandparents and child welfare workers have contact with each other, as well as factors that are associated with positive working relationships between them. Data were gathered from 63 grandparents who had a grandchild receiving service from a child welfare agency, as well as from 21 child welfare workers, all of…

… Mental health and educational screening evaluations increase the … care, but only for a minority … 1 … en … Mental health and educational screening evaluations increase the … Youth in out-of-home care are at high risk for mental health and educational problems. Yet, many do not receive services and the lack of universal screening complicates the detection of problems, leaving many youths with undiagnosed needs. This study aimed to establish whether mental health and educational screening recommendations were associated with service provision for pre-adolescents in out…

… Understanding contextual effects on externalizing behaviors in children in out-of-home care: Influence of workers and foster families 2011 Authors Cheung, Connie Goodman, … George Jenkins, Jennifer M. Children and Youth Services Review, Volume 33, Issue 10, pp. 2050-2060. Understanding … Children residing in out-of-home care may be more vulnerable to exhibiting higher levels of externalizing behaviour (e.g., destruction of property, harm towards others) than children living with their biological parents. Extant literature illustrates that child specific features and foster parent characteristics have been found to have an effect on the externalizing behaviour of children in out-…

This review was undertaken by Drs. Duerden (Neurologist & Senior Research Associate, Sick Children’s Hospital) and Fallon (Associate Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto). The collaboration for the review was important to address the medical and social science used by the authors in order to understand the neurological impact of childhood maltreatment in…