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Description and evaluation of a trial program aimed at reunifying adolescents in statutory long-term out-of-home care with their birth families: The adolescent reunification program
In: Children and youth services review: an international multidisciplinary review of the welfare of young people, Band 119, S. 105570
ISSN: 0190-7409
The profile and progress of neglected and abused children in long-term foster care
In: Child abuse & neglect: the international journal ; official journal of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, Band 33, Heft 7, S. 421-428
ISSN: 1873-7757
Placement Stability and the Psychosocial Well-Being of Children in Foster Care
In: Research on social work practice, Band 13, Heft 4, S. 415-431
ISSN: 1552-7581
This article assesses one of the key assumptions underlying the philosophy of permanency planning—that placement instability adversely affects the psychosocial development of children in foster care. Method: The placement movements and psychosocial well-being of foster care were assessed over an 8-month period. Results: Most of the children who remained in care throughout the period could be assigned to one of three groups: 1 (stable throughout), 2 (unstable throughout), 3 (initially unstable, then stable) Results for these 120 children were generally consistent with a linear trend toward improvement in Groups 1 and 2, whereas Group 3 children displayed improvement only while their placements were unstable. Conclusions: Although results for Group 3 permit more than one interpretation, results for Group 2 suggest that placement instability up to at least the 8-month point is not necessarily damaging to the child.
The First Four Months in a New Foster Placement: Psychosocial Adjustment, Parental Contact and Placement Disruption
In: Journal of sociology & social welfare, Band 30, Heft 2
ISSN: 1949-7652
The Plight of Disruptive Children in Out-of-Home Care
In: Children's services: social policy, research, and practice ; journal of the Division of Child, Youth, and Family Services of the American Psychological Association, Band 5, Heft 3, S. 201-212
ISSN: 1532-6918
The micro-economics of foster care in South Australia
In: Children Australia, Band 27, Heft 2, S. 29-34
ISSN: 2049-7776
The South Australian foster care system is plagued by problems of both supply and demand. Decreases in the availability of residential care and suitably trained foster carers has led to a shortage of placements to meet current demand. At the same time, increased selectivity in the intake of children into care has led to an over-concentration of more challenging children who either cannot be placed in foster care, or are being placed with the support of significantly higher loadings or payments. In this paper, it is argued that these problems can be understood conceptually using basic micro-economic principles, namely: demand-supply curve analysis, separation of market segments, and supply elasticity. It is argued that the supply of placements has become increasingly price-inelastic due to the nature of demand (the type of child), and that increasing short-term payment rates only serves to magnify the problem by artificially maintaining unsuitable care arrangements. Alternative solutions, such as the introduction of training and professional foster carers, are discussed.
Predictors of Irrational Thinking in Regular Slot Machine Gamblers
In: The journal of psychology: interdisciplinary and applied, Band 134, Heft 2, S. 117-128
ISSN: 1940-1019
Autism in relation to gaming disorder and internet addiction: A systematic review
In: Computers in human behavior, Band 162, S. 108443
ISSN: 0747-5632
The child protection and juvenile justice nexus in Australia: A longitudinal examination of the relationship between maltreatment and offending
In: Child abuse & neglect: the international journal ; official journal of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, Band 64, S. 32-46
ISSN: 1873-7757
Child maltreatment and criminal convictions in youth: The role of gender, ethnicity and placement experiences in an Australian population
In: Children and youth services review: an international multidisciplinary review of the welfare of young people, Band 73, S. 57-65
ISSN: 0190-7409
Foster Fathers and Carework: Engaging Alternate Models of Parenting
In: Fathering: a journal of theory, research, and practice about men as fathers, Band 8, Heft 1, S. 24-36
ISSN: 1933-026X
Children Entering Out-of-home Care in South Australia: Baseline Analyses for a 3-year Longitudinal Study
In: Children and youth services review: an international multidisciplinary review of the welfare of young people, Band 24, Heft 12, S. 917-932
ISSN: 0190-7409
The Role of Parental Contact in Substitute Care
In: Journal of social service research, Band 28, Heft 3, S. 19-39
ISSN: 1540-7314
Placement disruption and dislocation in South Australian substitute care
In: Children Australia, Band 25, Heft 2, S. 16-20
ISSN: 2049-7776
The purpose of this study was to examine the degree of disruption experienced by 235 children aged 4–17 years placed into substitute care in South Australia during 1998–1999. Key measures of disruption included: the frequency of placement changes, the number of children forced to change school, the geographical distance from birth families, and the amount of planned contact between children and families during the placement. Parental contact was reduced when children were victims of abuse, but more likely when children were placed because of parental incapacity. Changes in school were more likely when children were older or were placed a long way from their families. Geographical dislocation was, as expected, more likely to be a feature of rural placements, although there were no rural-metropolitan differences in the nature and frequency of family contact. The implications of these findings for future research are discussed.