Background Every year a large number of children around the world are removed from their
homes because they are maltreated. Child welfare agencies are responsible for placing …

Family foster care deeply influences the needs of children and how these are satisfied. To
increase our knowledge of foster children's needs and how these are conceptualized, this …

Over the last decade or longer, the number of children in kinship care has increased
dramatically. There is evidence that kinship foster families have fewer resources and receive …

Objective To assess the prevalence of mental health problems in children in foster care, their
families' use of services and the associated costs. Methods Information on mental health …

During the past 25 years, North Americans have dramatically increased their awareness of
the extent of child sexual abuse and the serious consequences of such abuse for its victims …

Formal kinship foster care is an increasingly common form of out-of-home placement, and
several important distinctions between kinship care and non-relative foster care have been …

Abstract In 2008, the Department of Health made a referral to the National Institute for Health
and Clinical Excellence and the Social Care Institute for Excellence to develop joint public …

This study focused on attachment of foster children by examining factors associated with
attachment relationships of children raised from birth by the same parents. The sample …

With a growing number of children living in kinship foster care, it is important to understand
how youths are faring in kinship care compared to youths in non-kinship care. In the present …

Factors associated with improvement in the behavioral-emotional functioning of sexually
abused children, from 6 to 18 years of age, were investigated. Children were classified by …