Preventing Child Behavior Problems and Substance Use: The Pathways Home Foster Care Reunification Intervention

Preventing Child Behavior Problems

Preventing Behavior Problems and Health-risking Behaviors in Girls in Foster Care.

Transition into middle school presents complex challenges, including exposure to a larger peer group, increased expectations for time management and self-monitoring, renegotiation of rules with parents, and pubertal changes. For children in foster care, this transition is complicated by their maltreatment histories, living situation changes, and difficulty explaining their background to peers a...

The Reunification of Very Young Children from Foster Care

FamilY reunification is a central strategy for family preservation. Although child welfare services have arguably relied too heavily on family reunification to preserve families-and should more often prevent any separation of parent and child with in-home services-the incidence of children with a first entry into foster care has recently reached levels equivalent to those a decade earlier (Goer...

Substance use and abuse among older youth in foster care.

The purpose of this study was to explore prevalence and predictors of current and lifetime substance use, substance abuse disorder, and polysubstance use among older youth in foster care. Interviews were conducted with 406 17-year old youth (90% of those eligible) in one state's foster care system between December 2001 and June 2003. Forty-five percent of foster care youth reported using alcoho...

Relationship Between Child Behavior Problems, Parental Stress, Child Abuse Potential, and Substance Use Among Mothers in the Child Welfare System