Background Residential youth care (RYC) institutions aim to provide care and stability for
vulnerable adolescents with several previous and present challenges, such as disrupted …

Social support may be of particular importance for vulnerable adolescents' development and
health and can help them to cope with stressful life events. However, knowledge of …

Purpose Children and adolescents living in youth welfare institutions often have a below
average quality of life (QoL), for reasons that include developmental difficulties, history of …

Background Child welfare services are aimed at providing care and protection, fostering well-
being and prosocial behaviour. Thus, Quality of Life (QoL) should be an important outcome …

Purpose Many adolescents living in residential youth care (RYC) institutions perceive their
quality of life (QoL) to be low. Enhancing QoL is thus important, but little is known about the …

Adolescents in contact with the child welfare services (CWS) are at increased risk of
experiencing negative life events (NLE) and mental health problems compared to the …

Background Childhood maltreatment is an important risk factor for mental and physical
health problems. Adolescents living in residential youth care (RYC) have experienced a …

Background Social support is commonly examined as a protective factor for children with a
history of child maltreatment, and it has been measured by self-report via the Social Support …

Childhood maltreatment is known to be associated with a broad variety of psychopathology
and deteriorated well-being in adolescent populations. In the present nationwide study, we …

Purpose Few studies have investigated possible predictors of positive outcomes for youths
in foster care. The aim of this prospective follow-up study was to examine quality of life (QoL) …