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Title of Document: INTERNALIZING AND EXTERNALIZING BEHAVIORS OF ADOLESCENTS IN KINSHIP AND FOSTER CARE: FINDINGS FROM THE NATIONAL SURVEY OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT WELL-BEING Sarah Kaye, Ph.D. Family Studies, 2007 Directed By: Sandra Hofferth, Ph.D. Professor Department of Family Studies The mission of the United States child welfare system is to promote safety, permanency and well-being for chil...

Introduction There were 27 quality studies on looked after children as determined by the project categorisation. Studies included children who were placed with non-related foster parents as well as those in kinship care; these are currently the placements of choice in Anglophone jurisdictions (Ainsworth and Thoburn 2014). Surveys have compared children’s material resources in different forms of...

Children and adolescents who enter foster care often do so with complicated and serious medical, mental health, developmental, oral health, and psychosocial problems rooted in their history of childhood trauma. Ideally, health care for this population is provided in a pediatric medical home by physicians who are familiar with the sequelae of childhood trauma and adversity. As youth with special...

Children and adolescents who enter foster care often do so with complicated and serious medical, mental health, developmental, oral health, and psychosocial problems rooted in their history of childhood trauma. Ideally, health care for this population is provided in a pediatric medical home by physicians who are familiar with the sequelae of childhood trauma and adversity. As youth with special...

In this paper, Robbie Gilligan sets out to highlight questions about the role and experiences of men as foster carers in fostering couples.1 The sparse literature relevant to the topic is reviewed; some of the therapeutic and practical reasons for the significance of the man’s role in foster care are considered; findings from a small exploratory study of male foster carers and their role are pr...

For children and youth making a mental health crisis visit, we investigated ethnic disparities in whether the children and youth were currently in treatment or whether this crisis visit was an entry or reentry point into mental health treatment. We gathered Medicaid claims for mental health services provided to 20,110 public-sector clients ages 17 and younger and divided them into foster care a...