Adolescenceâ€" beginning with the onset of puberty and ending in the mid-20sâ€" is a
critical period of development during which key areas of the brain mature and develop …

Children in care lag behind their peers on a number of outcome measures, including
education. Interventions have been developed to help them close the gap with their peers …

Background This systematic review aims to summarize latent classes of polysubstance use
in adolescents (10–19 years), and to describe predictors of polysubstance use. Methods A …

Objective Foster children often experience compromising situations such as neglect,
physical abuse, or sexual abuse before out-of-home placement. This article aims to give a …

Suicide in children and young people is a major public health concern. However, it is
unknown whether individuals who have been in the care of the child welfare system are at …

Most adolescents are placed in residential youth care (RYC) because of severe
psychosocial strains and child maltreatment, which represent risk factors for developing …

This meta-analysis aims at comparing mental health problems of children in foster care to
those living with their biological parents while taking in consideration different protective and …

Objective. We compared the prevalence rates of mental health and physical health problems
between adults with histories of childhood foster care and those without. Methods. We used …

Youth who age out of foster care are at risk of poor outcomes and risky behaviors in young
adulthood. Yet, little is known about what child welfare workers can do to decrease these …

Children in care have complex symptomatology that is not well represented in present
classification systems. There is a need for research into the characteristics and meaning of …