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… Psychopharmacotherapy in children placed in group homes and residential centres in Canada: Psychopathological … portrait of children receiving psychotropic medications and educators' perception of treatment Journal article … 1 … … … Psychopharmacotherapy in children placed in group homes and residential centres in Canada: Psychopathological … This article aims to show the psychopathology portrait of Canadian children placed in foster care (foster group homes and rehabilitation centres) receiving psychotropic medications, and to clarify their overall level of functioning. It also focuses on educators' knowledge and perceptions of psychopharmacotherapy. A group of medicated children (n = 71) was compared to a group of non-medicated…

In June 2014, the Representative for Children and Youth issued a report entitled Finding Forever Families: A Review of the Provincial Adoption System. The report showed that, at any given time, more than 1,000 British Columbia children and youth in the care of the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) were waiting to be adopted. During the release of the report, a joint event…

… makes you stronger: Survivalist self-reliance as resilience and risk among young adults aging out of foster care Journal … makes you stronger: Survivalist self-reliance as resilience and risk among young adults aging out of foster care … This interpretive study explores the experiences of 44 Midwestern young adults in the process of aging out of foster care. This paper highlights the degree to which they endorse self-reliance as they reflect on past experiences, offer advice to foster youth, and identify barriers to achieving their own life goals. Findings suggest that this identity must be understood in multiple contexts…

Over 24,000 youth "aged out" of the nation's foster care system in FY 2005. While independent living programs and other services are available to foster youth, and almost all states allow dependency courts to retain jurisdiction of foster youth beyond age 18, outcomes for former foster youth are disturbing. This paper describes a program to address these challenges by providing extended foster…

… Using sibling data to understand the impact of family group decision-making on child … Journal article … 1 … en … Using sibling data to understand the impact of family group decision-making on child … Few studies have examined the impact of family group decision-making (FGDM) on child welfare outcomes. Studies in this area have often suffered from small sample sizes and lack of adequate comparison groups. Since FGDM is administered at the family level, sibling data provides an ideal way to compensate for small sample sizes and low enrollment rates in research evaluating FGDM. This study…

… Childhood experiences, growing up “in care,” and trust: A quantitative analysis Journal article … 1 … en … Childhood experiences, growing up “in care,” and trust: A quantitative analysis … Different childhood experiences, including those that involve abuse, violence, and being removed from the home and placed in government care can have lingering effects that last into adulthood. In particular, they can affect the ability to form relationships and trust later in life. This study uses 2014 Canadian General Social Survey data to test whether a history of abuse, violence, and being in…

… Adolescent Attachment in Adoptive Families with Homosexual and Straight Parents Journal article … 1 … en … An Empirical … Adolescent Attachment in Adoptive Families with Homosexual and Straight Parents … Data were collected on 154 adoptive families with gay/lesbian and straight adoptive parents (154 parent respondents and 210 adolescent respondents). This study was principally interested in factors affecting adolescent attachment including parent sexual orientation, adolescent and parent life satisfaction, and parent level of relationship satisfaction with their adopted child as well as other key…

… of Out-of-Home Placement in Substantiated Maltreatment Investigations Information Sheet # 92 Published in 2012 … The Ontario Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect, 2008 (OIS-2008) is the fourth provincial study … to examine the incidence of reported child maltreatment and the characteristics of children and families …

… Child physical abuse with and without other forms of maltreatment: Dysfunctionality … Journal article … 1 … en … Child physical abuse with and without other forms of maltreatment: Dysfunctionality … The aim of this study was to compare cases of physical abuse reported to Quebec child protective services (CPS) according to whether the abuse occurred alone or co-occurred with other forms of maltreatment. The data were taken from the Quebec Incidence Study (QIS), which examined 4,929 reports investigated by Quebec CPS in the fall of 1998. Of the 514 children who were physically abused, 269 were…

… The role of parental stress, mother’s childhood abuse and perceived consequences of violence in predicting attitudes and attribution in favor of corporal punishment Journal … en … The role of parental stress, mother’s childhood abuse and perceived consequences of violence in predicting … We investigate maternal attitudes toward corporal punishment and the attribution of blame to the child on the basis of data gathered from a population survey of a representative sample of mothers and mother figures. A total of 3,148 women living at least half of the time with a child participated in a telephone survey. The independent variables included in the multivariate model predicting…