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Issue 2-2013

Cover article

This issue is devoted to the 7th International Foster Care Research Network Meetingheld in Padova, Italy, on September 9-11, 2013, in collaboration with Fondazione Zancan, International Association for Outcome-based Evaluation and Research on Family and Children's Services (_iaOBER_fcs), and Fondazione Paideia.

Foster care: specific issues and experiences

Content

Outcomes and life courses of children taken into care

authors: Heidi Pohjanpalo

Fostering adolescents: how to recover the relationship with the mother thanks to another woman’s help

authors: Gemma Beretta and Germana Cavallini

What school means to young people in foster care in Sweden

authors: Lena Hedin

The challenges for family foster care of children in the Province of Bolzano: trend analysis 2005-2012

authors: Sabine Krismer

Motivation for foster care

authors: Skrallan De Maeyer, Johan Vanderfaeillie, Femke Vanschoonlandt, Marijke Robberechts and Frank Van Holen

Tie caring in the context of fostering

authors: Marianna Giordano and Chiara Capasso

Efficacy of a Flemish foster parent intervention for foster children aged 3 to 12 with externalizing problems

authors: Femke Vanschoonlandt, Johan Vanderfaeillie, Frank Van Holen, Skrällan De Maeyer and Marijke Robberechts

Experiment on a bilingual cross cultural approach in a foster care situation: an access to childhood’s memories (segregated systems) of maternal grandfather’s foster care family

authors: Fabrizio Gori

Disinterest of child protection for kinship care in the north of France

authors: Bernadette Tillard and Lille University

Constructing grounded theory focused on youth’s rights in residential care

authors: Eunice Magalhães and Maria Manuela Calheiros

Participatory planning: Involvement as an outcome

authors: Massimiliano Ferrua

Vulnerable young people in Israel: Their stories about transition to adulthood

authors: Anat Zeira

Overview of programs aiming to increase the involvement of birth parents in foster care

authors: Marijke Robberechts, Johan Vanderfaeillie, Frank Van Holen, Skrällan De Maeyer and Femke Vanschoonlandt

Preventing child placement through the help between families. The experience of family helpers in the program P.I.P.P.I.

authors: Marco Ius, Sara Serbati, Diego Di Masi, Ombretta Zanon, Adriana Ciampa, Raffaele Tangorra and Paola Milani

Family relationships in a sample of non relative foster families from Madrid: The representation of the family «confines» and the place of the birth family

authors: María Teresa Díaz Tártalo

Foster care in Portugal. Evidence of the present, challenges for the future

authors: Paulo Delgado, João Carvalho and Vânia S. Pinto

Foster care as outcome strategy of deinstitutionalization process in Croatia

authors: Antonija Zizak, Ivana Jedud Boric and Ivana Maurovic

Changes in the nature and sequence of placements experienced by children in care in England and Wales 1980-2010

authors: Roger Bullock

Issue 1-2013

Cover article

This issue is devoted to the 7th International Foster Care Research Network Meeting held in Padova, Italy, on September 9-11, 2013, in collaboration with Fondazione Zancan, International Association for Outcome-based Evaluation and Research on Family and Children's Services (_iaOBER_fcs), and Fondazione Paideia.

Foster care: issues and strategies

Content

Entrusting or Caring: care pathways in Italy

authors: Cinzia Canali and Tiziano Vecchiato

Evaluation of the circle therapeutic foster care program in Victoria, Australia: Outcomes and implications

authors: Patricia McNamara, Margarita Frederico, Maureen Long, Lynne McPherson, Richard Rose and Kathy Gilbert

Permanence in long-term foster care: family relationships and professional systems

authors: Gillian Schofield

Meeting the needs of foster children with (complex) trauma and their foster families: A recent initiative in the Netherlands

authors: Hans Grietens

How does a new training program Pride for foster families work in Lithuania?

authors: Dalija Snieškienė

A family for a family: The Italian experience

authors: Giorgia Salvadori and Fabrizio Serra

Reunification, process of transformation, multiperspectivity, retro- & prospective

authors: Klaus Wolf, Daniela Reimer and Dirk Schäfer

The development of problem behaviour in foster children: A Flemish longitudinal research

authors: Johan Vanderfaeillie, Frank Van Holen, Femke Vanschoonlandt, Skrallan De Maeyer and Marijke Robberechts

Making the right decision: A comparison between professionals approaches

authors: Cinzia Canali, Roberto Maurizio and Nina Biehal

Contact Family: A preventive supporting intervention or a kind of placement for children and teenagers?

authors: Lotta Berg Eklundh

Cross-national comparison of caseworkers’ attitudes towards child welfare issues and their impact in risk assessments and decisions to place a child out-of-home

authors: Mónica López, A. Carien Koopmans and Erik J. Knorth, Cilia Witteman, Rami Benbenishty, Bilhah Davidson-Arad, Jorge F. del Valle, Trevor Spratt, David Hayes and John Devaney

Head, Heart, Hands programme: Introducing social pedagogy into UK foster care

authors: Lisa Holmes and Raina Sheridan

Protecting overseas children in informal care arrangements: A UK-based model for social work practice

authors: Angela Wilson and Karen Wells

Evaluating a group support program for kinship foster families: evidence on how to enhance resilience

authors: Nuria Fuentes-Peláez, Pere Amorós, Mª Angels Balsells, Mª Cruz Molina, Crescencia Pastor and Ainoa Mateos

Increasing the benefits of foster carer peer support

authors: Nikki Luke and Judy Sebba

Evolution of foster care in Portugal: Perspectives of foster children and carers

authors: João Carvalho, Paulo Delgado and Vânia S. Pinto

Issue 2

Cover article

This issue is devoted to the Conference Care Matters: Transforming Lives – Improving Outcomes Conference, incorporating the 8^th International Looking After Children Conference (7-9 July 2008, Keble College, Oxford UK)

Content

Leaving state residential Care in Bucharest: what supports and hinders the transition

authors: Roxana Anghel

Aftercare in a Norwegian context

authors: Elisabeth Backe-Hansen

Formative and Summative Evaluation of a Program to Facilitate Transition from Care in Israel

authors: Rami Benbenishty, Anat Zeira, and Alexandra Magnus

Improving transitions to adulthood of young people leaving care in Romania

authors: Gabriela Dima, Dr. Caroline Skehill

Transition to adulthood for young Swedish care leavers

authors: Ingrid Höjer and Yvonne Sjöblom

Transitioning out of residential care in Jordan: pathways and outcomes. Emerging findings and recommendations from a doctoral research study in progress

authors: Rawan W. Ibrahim. Supervisors: Dr. Jonathan Dickens, Prof. David Howe

Pregnant pathways

authors: Bruce Leslie

Identity exploration in emerging adulthood: how does it apply to at-risk youths?

authors: Julie Marcotte

State care as a pathway to homelessness: implications for the transition to adulthood

authors: Paula Mayock and Nicola Carr

A structural analysis of young people leaving state care in Victoria, Australia

authors: Philip Mendes and Badal Moslehuddin

Transition to adulthood: the Equip program

authors: Véronique Noël, Martin Goyette, Marie-Noële Royer and Geneviève Chénier

How do the child welfare services in Norway work with young people leaving care?

authors: Inger Oterholm

Building a future together: issues and outcomes for transition aged youth

authors: Carrie Reid and Peter Dudding

"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger": the self-reliant identity as resilience and risk among young adults aging out of foster care

authors: Gina Miranda Samuels

New transitions to employment – a biographical approach to forms of cooperation between rearing support services and employment promotion agents

authors: Wolfgang Schröer, . Stefan Köngeter, Maren Zeller

Islington Career Start: how Islington’s employment scheme has improved the transitions to adulthood for looked after young people and care leavers

authors: Nikki Smith

The transition to adulthood for young people leaving public care: international comparisons and perspectives

authors: Mike Stein and Emily R. Munro

Exit from care - developing a perspective

authors: Jan Storø

Issue 1

Cover article

This issue is devoted to the Conference Care Matters: Transforming Lives - Improving Outcomes Conference, incorporating the 8^th International Looking After Children Conference (7-9 July 2008, Keble College, Oxford UK)

Planning & Review, Intervention and Outcomes for all Children in Need

Content

Relational assessment and case planning

authors: Gerard Bellefeuille

Adolescent Multi Agency Support Service - Islington Children and Families, Children’s Services

authors: Kim Lawson, Nina Stevens, Garry Richardson

Implementation of the Integrated Children’s System in Sweden: a successful strategy

authors: Kjerstin Bergman

Family project: a demonstration project of family therapy for neglectful families

authors: Michèle Brousseau, Madeleine Beaudry and Marie-Claude Simard

Issues, challenges, and operationalization of the use of the Assessment Framework in the Quebec context: the example of the IACDW initiative

authors: Claire Chamberland and Danielle Lessard

A picture of the outcomes for children in care in Victoria: using the Looking After Children records for knowledge building and service improvement

authors: Ruth Champion and Sarah Wise

Involving young people in decision making: the impact of the Integrated Children’s System

authors: Hedy Cleaver and Wendy Rose

SERAR system (assessment and recording system in residential child care): assessing outcomes and monitoring data for children in residential care in Spain

authors: Jorge F. del Valle, Amaia Bravo and Iriana Santos

Supervisory role in the successful implementation of Looking After Children

authors: Lynn Desjardins, Sharon Evans, Doreen Haveman

Effectiveness conditions in residential care for children and adolescents: results from an Italian study

authors: Francesca Emiliani, Laura Palareti, Chiara Berti

The National Care Planning Project: a multi-disciplinary approach to care planning and research for children in care

authors: Agnes Feely, Rosa Lewis, Caroline Roe

Evaluation of the effectiveness of the new Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBS)

authors: Alan France and Emily R. Munro

Child welfare transformation at Brant: examining child performance outcomes

authors: Andrew Koster, Catherine Gabel, Margaret Barr, Rhonda Hallberg

Using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire to aid in the early identification of looked after children’s mental health needs in Ontario, Canada

authors: Robyn A. Marquis, Marie-Pierre Paquet and Robert J. Flynn

The Cost Calculator for Children’s Services: extension for all children in need - mapping children in need services

authors: Samantha McDermid

The Integrated Children's System and disabled children: parents’ and practitioners’ initial experiences and evaluations

authors: Wendy Mitchell and Patricia Sloper

Intelligent information systems: a tool for improving practice

authors: Terry Moore and Mike Gatehouse

Family drug and alcohol court: parental substance misuse – the problems

authors: Anthony Nagle

Shards of the old looking glass: restoring the significance of identity constructions in promoting positive outcomes for looked after children

authors: Isabella McMurray

Service user experience of case managed interventions

authors: Susan Tregeagle

Asset-building and the Ontario Looking After Children Project: fostering resilient outcomes in children and youth in out-of-home care

authors: Cynthia Vincent, Shaye Moffat, Marie-Pierre Paquet and Robert J. Flynn

From assessment to analysis

authors: Steve Walker and Jane Scott

The effect of the Looking After Children approach on the development of children in foster care: preliminary data from four Quebec youth centres

authors: Marie-Andrée Poirier, Marie-Claude Simard, Véronique Noël, Isabelle Boisvert3

Issue 4

Cover article

This is issue is devoted to the Conference Care Matters: Transforming Lives - Improving Outcomes Conference, incorporating the 8^th International Looking After Children Conference (7-9 July 2008, Keble College, Oxford UK)

Addressing Education and Mental Health Needs

Content

Care and education of difficult adolescents: research conclusions and policy implications

authors: David Berridge. Presented by Cherilyn Dance

Emotional and behavioural problems and outcomes for adolescents on the edge of care

authors: Nina Biehal

Developing an arts strategy for looked after children and young people in County Durham

authors: Meg Boustead

Design and recruitment phase of a randomized controlled trial to improve the educational outcomes of young people in out-of-home care

authors: Robert J. Flynn, Marie-Pierre Paquet, and Robyn Marquis

Very young children in need or at risk of significant harm: issues affecting parenting capacity

authors: Rebecca Brown, Emily R. Munro and Harriet Ward

Reaching higher for young people looked after– the ‘Stepping Stones’ programme of Aimhigher, Leeds

authors: Ken Campbell

Use of neurobiological measures in research involving foster children

authors: Philip A. Fisher

‘How to Go Higher’ - the value of a training and support programme promoting Higher Education to staff working with young people in care and care leavers

authors: Glyn Hibberd

Comparing costs of multidimensional treatment foster care with those of other placements

authors: Lisa Holmes and David Westlake

Yippee - retaining young people from care in post compulsory education: a five country study

authors: Sonia Jackson and Claire Cameron

Extension of the Cost Calculator for Children’s Services to include cost calculations for health and mental health: implementation in Cheshire County Council’s Children’s Services

authors: Anna Jones

Emergent literacy and childhood literacy-promoting activities for children in the Ontario child welfare system

authors: Shaye Moffat and Cynthia C. Vincent

Residential care and substance misuse: exploring the relationship

authors: Michael Murphy and Sarah Ingram

Maltreated children’s mental health: a global approach for designing specific programs at the Centre Jeunesse de Québec – Institut Universitaire (“CJQ-IU”)

authors: Danielle Nadeau

Risks, needs, strengths, and outcomes in child protection: what we know about the children we serve

authors: Michael O’Brien

The outcomes of the “Way Ahead” project in Leicestershire

authors: Angela O’Sullivan and Jane Millward

What can the UCAS ‘tick box’ tell us about the progression of applicants who have been in care?

authors: Joanna Papageorgiou

Reading with children: enhancing outcomes, being ‘special’ and personal meanings

authors: Janet Seden

Patterns of illness and health service use in families where children go into public care

authors: Doug Simkiss

The Leicester City Council experience: looked after children’s participation and achievement in education

authors: Andy Smith

Issue 3

Cover article

This is issue is devoted to the Conference Care Matters: Transforming Lives - Improving Outcomes Conference, incorporating the 8^th International Looking After Children Conference (7-9 July 2008, Keble College, Oxford UK)

Identifying Issues and Improving Stability

Content

Working at the 'edges of care’? European models of support for young people and families

authors: Janet Boddy

Late outcomes for siblings reared in long-term placement in Children’s Villages

authors: Annick-Camille Dumaret, M. Constantin-Kuntz, P. Donati, and M, Crost

Enhancing placement stability via a continuum of care approach: reflections from the Australian context

authors: Deirdre Cheers and Stephen Mondy

European policy and practice initiatives to improve outcomes for children in care

authors: Paul Durning

Outcomes and stability in placements with kin compared with stranger foster care

authors: Elaine Farmer

The challenge of growing up in care: a longitudinal study of outcomes

authors: Elizabeth Fernandez

Resilience in Aboriginal children and adolescents in out-of-home care: a test of an initial explanatory model

authors: Katharine M. Filbert and Robert J. Flynn

Ontario Practice Model

authors: Patricia Gamble

Adoption as an alternative to long-term fostering

authors: Turid Vogt Grinde

Sharing the care? Birth parents’ perception of foster care placements

authors: Ingrid Höjer

Tracking Footprints - improving out-of-home care services through research: Former SOS children reflect on their experiences

authors: Claudia Mödlagl

Better futures? Experience and outcomes of children and young people in residential care

authors: Andrew Kendrick

The relationship between foster parent training and outcomes of looked after children in Canada

authors: Jordanna J. Nash and Robert J. Flynn

Mapping the impact of children’s advocacy services

authors: Andrew Pithouse

Stability and wellbeing in care: what makes the difference?

authors: Ian Sinclair

Children's needs, types and costs of placements and their stability: comparisons using the Cost Calculator for Children's Services

authors: Jean Soper and Lisa Holmes

What are the training needs of foster carers who look after unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people?

authors: Hannah Stott

Better outcomes for children - is that an unquestioning goal? Some news from the Russian family placements battlefield

authors: Maria Ternovskaya

Issues in kinship care: assessment and support in Dutch kinship foster care

authors: Anneke J.G. Vinke

Developments in adoption and foster care practice in the Netherlands

authors: Anneke J.G. Vinke

Preparation and transition planning for unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people: a review of existing evidence in England

authors: Jim Wade

Issue 2

Cover article

Experiences with children  and families in difficulties

 

Content

Goal attainment in youth care in the Netherlands. Effectiveness of needs led care

authors: Marion Welling

Try again, Sam

authors: Silvana Fantini, Sandro Scanavino

Casket Project (Progetto Scrigno): the treasure of the origins, the richness of the present, the well-integrated identity development

authors: Maura Zandonai, Nicoletta Poli, Sabina Grigolli

An approach for the link between social levels and child maltreat-ment by social network analysis

authors: Gillonne Desquesnes

Octagon-Octaplay: play group challenge 1963-1981 and child care training and play 1981-1991

authors: Rosemary Pickering, Betty Rathbone

The protection of children and families experiencing difficulties with a view to services’ cooperation: intervention strategies and evalua-tion of the process: The experience of the Aulss 17 – Este

authors: Luisa Betto, Maria Luisa Scampoli, Gian Piero Turchi, Angelo Mussoni

Offering a life project to children: an approach that is increasingly anchored in the practices of youth protection in Quebec

authors: Esther Montambault, Denis Trudelle, Jean-Luc Gosselin

Bringing safety and joy into a child’s life

authors: Liisa Heino, Päivi Salomaa

The impact of trauma on children in protection and care: an ap-proach to understanding trauma through the use of assessment and outcome measures

authors: Carly Black, Margarita Frederico, Annette Jackson, Trish McCluskey

Effectiveness of group therapy for sexually abused female adoles-cents: Follow-up six months after treatment

authors: Marc Tourigny, Leechen Farkas

Social inclusion of adoptive children and adolescents at school

authors: Alessandra Moro, Federica Elmetti, Michela Franchetti, Alessia Zanetti

Assessments in Child Welfare Service: Experiences from a model in-spired by empowerment and network thinking

authors: Dag Skilbred, Anette Christine Iversen and Toril Havik

The psycho-social treatment of the maltreated children: a follow-up study

authors: Antonio Maria Corato, Paola Baglioni

Implementing randomized experiments: an evaluation of multisys-temic therapy in The Netherlands

authors: Willeke Manders, Maja Dekovic, Jessica Asscher

Program design and evaluation for at-risk children and youth: pre-venting developmental impairment

authors: Maria Manuela Calheiros

Short-term effects of parental risk contexts in infants’ development

authors: Leonor Rodrigues, Maria Manuela Calheiros, Salomé V. Santos

A new service for early development promotion in an emergency care setting

authors: Salomé V. Santos

New practices for youth's residential care: promoting autonomy de-velopment

authors: Ana Martins

Implementation and development processes of a new service for long-term institutionalized youth

authors: Carla Moleiro

The risk of continuity of institutional culture: the case of the residen-tial care for children

authors: Federico Zullo, Paola Bastianoni

The Looking After Children approach in four child protection centres in Quebec: the effects on the evolution of children in care

authors: Marie-Claude Simard, Marie-Andrée Poirier, Véronique Noël

Differential evaluation of residential programmes for children

authors: Angela Torbay Betancor, Eduardo Martín Cabrera

Personal, school and social adjustment of children in residential care

authors: Maria Dolores García Hernández, Eduardo Martín Cabrera

Quality 4 Children

authors: Samantha Tedesco, Werner Hilweg, Christian Posch, Franco Colizzi

Social support network and adjustment of children in residential child care

authors: Eduardo Martin

Organizational ethnography of a residential service for out-of-home children

authors: Marzia Saglietti

The Veneto project to accompanying and support adoptive families: Padua’s experience

authors: Marta Macchi, Ilaria Parrinello, Barbara Segatto, Simonetta Valentini

The Webster Stratton Incredible Years (IY) Basic Parenting Pro-gramme: Parental satisfaction in a community group of Portuguese parents

authors: Maria João Seabra Santos, Maria Filomena Fonseca Gaspar

Intensive home visiting programme for multiproblem families. Back-ground and implementation of effectiveness study

authors: Denise Bodden, Maja Dekovic, Cathy van Tuijl

Differences and similarities between the experiences of mothers and fathers of a child with a disability: the point of view of parents

authors: Diane Pelchat, Car Lacharité, Germain Dulac, Valérie Bourgeois-Guérin

Crisis intervention for families: The search for effective elements

authors: Channa Al, Geert Jan Stams, Peter van der Laan

Biological parent implication as a factor of foster child social devel-opment

authors: Séverine Euillet, Olivia Troupel-Cremel, Amandine Baude, Chantal Zaouche Gaudron

Longitudinal impacts of a multimodal intervention program ad-dressed to ADHD children and their parental stress

authors: Line Massé, Martine Verreault, Claudia Verret, Phillipe Lageix, Marie-Claude Guay

Stories of Success and Failure among immigrant adolescents at risk: Developing a family/community based model of intervention

authors: Ludmila Rubinstein, Julia Mirsky, Vered Slonim-Nevo

Impacts of environmental factors on cognitive development of immi-grant children from developing countries

authors: Anne J. Choquette, Danielle Blanchard, Marie-Claude Guay

Homo-cultural fostering, natural boundary of the protection of for-eign children

authors: Anna Maria Giarola

Issue 1

Cover article

This issue is devoted to the international conference on outcome based evaluation on child and family services held in Padova (Italy) in 2008.

Problems such as child maltreatment, abuse, delinquent behaviour, social exclusion, problematic behaviours, deprivation and many others should be addressed. In the real world, on these topics, there are more problems than solutions, even if many people and different organizations have been dealing with researches on these themes for many years. For the conference, we chose to focus on the point of view of the children and parents in difficulty, living everyday in the conditions listed above. How could we do this? We considered these network an occasion for exchanging visions.

 

Content

Key elements of effective practice in supporting parents in vulnerable families: what the international evidence tells us

authors: Deborah Ghate

Valuing Young Parents – Collaborative practice in working with teenage parents in outer Western Sydney in an early intervention and prevention model

authors: Karen van Woudenberg, Louisa McKay

A way of conducting groups of parents: which work? An overview of practices in France and Italy

authors: Anne-Marie Doucet-Dahlgren, Veronique Francis, Chiara Sità, Livia Cadei

Community-based child abuse prevention: Outcomes associated with a differential response program in California

authors: Amy Conley, Jill Duerr Berrick

Engaging birth parents in child welfare services: promising practices and policy opportunities

authors: Susan P. Kemp, Maureen O. Marcenko, William Vesneski

Family stress and behavioural problems in kinship and non-kinship foster care. Report of a Flemish study

authors: Frank Van Holen, Johan Vanderfaeillie, Charlotte Haarsma

Whole family approaches: responding to and engaging with complex social lives

authors: Harriet Clarke, Nathan Hughes, Kate Morris

Family group conferences and the improvement of family centred decision making

authors: Peter Marsh

Parent management training of foster parents: development, user evaluation and RCT

authors: Reidar Jakobsen

Cross national implementation of the Homebuilders® Model: Experiences, challenges and outcomes

authors: Shelley Leavitt, Charlotte Booth

Comparing costs in evaluating services for severely troubled children and youth in care

authors: Lisa Holmes, Harriet Ward

Traumatised children’s view of their social world: the application of the Social Network Map for children who have experienced abuse and neglect

authors: Annette Jackson, Margarita Frederico, Carly Black, Jane Harrison, Trish McCluskey

Evaluation of child parent treatment centres in Israel

authors: Dori Rivkin

Do ethnic minorities get second best solutions? A comparison of children in care in 2005

authors: Mette Lausten, Tine Egelund

Te Aho Takitoru – An indigenous social work framework

authors: Takiri Cotterill, Frank Rosandich, Joanne Rosandich

Anonymous placement of young victims of violence

authors: Herbert E. Colla, Tanja Corleis, Simon Garbers, Birgit Hein, Anja Jansen, Lea Miczuga

Ritual and physical exercising in the treatment of traumatized bereaved children in the context of political violence

authors: Vered Slonim-Nevo, Itzhak Lander

Supporting legal decision-making in the best interest of the child in Refugee and Asylum law: A model combining psychological and judicial considerations

authors: Margrite Kalverboer, Elianne Zijlstra, Erik J. Knorth

Club Amigas: an effective response to the needs of adolescent latinas

authors: Sandra G. Turner, Carol P. Kaplan and Chaya Piotrkowski

Acculturation and school achievement of refugee children: a case study

authors: Betty Goguikian Ratcliff

Evidence based practice: the new idol?

authors: Hubert M. Pijnenburg, Jan Willem Veerman

Background. Almost 25% of the Swiss population have a foreign origin; 85% of these migrant populations have an European origin (Former-Yougoslavia, Portugal, Turkey, Italy, Spain), even though the proportion of non-western populations has grown during the

authors: Lena Robinson

Issues on present and future of kinship foster care

authors: Carme Monserrat Boada

Evaluating Family Support Service

authors: Øivin Christiansen, Bente Moldestad

Strategies for improving the quality and effectiveness of services for troubled children and their families: experiences of youth care in Amsterdam

authors: Ellen Schulze, Theo Schut

Strategies for improving the quality and effectiveness of services for troubled children and their families: experiences of youth care in Drenthe

authors: Mariska van der Steege, Carolien Konijn

A creative systematic implementation of “the practice based” theory within the youth care services of the Flemish community

authors: Johan Peeters, Stefaan Van Mulders, Bart Verstraete

Getting it right for every child - a national approach to enhancing services to vulnerable children and youth in the context of improving outcomes for all children in Scotland

authors: Jane Aldgate, Wendy Rose

Research informed practice? Making a difference?

authors: Margaret McKenzie

Care and education of difficult adolescents: research conclusions and policy implications

authors: David Berridge

Italian and Australian evaluation experience: Building evidence through effective collaboration

authors: Patricia McNamara, Elisabetta Neve

Reflection on professional helping quality

authors: Trijntje Roggen

Research design, effectiveness and evidence

authors: Cinzia Canali, Anna Chiara Frigo, Tiziano Vecchiato

Gifts between family support workers and families: an unacknowledged topic

authors: Bernadette Tillard

Experienced practitioner views of good practice and optimal services for challenging youth

authors: Lloyd Owen

Myths and realities in working with children affected by autism spectrum disorders in residential care

authors: Irene Stevens

The use of action based research to initiate the development of culture change in service delivery to families in crisis and those requiring early intervention

authors: Merle Davies

Patterns of services for maltreated children: an eight year follow-up of english children suffering significant harm

authors: Marian Brandon, June Thoburn

Particularities of building institutional services for Hiv/Aids suffering children in South-Easthern Asia

authors: Ondrej Botek, Nada Kovalčíková

Aboriginal children’s wellbeing and the role of culture: outcomes of an Australian research project into measurements and assessment tools for Aboriginal and Islander children

authors: Jane Harrison, Annette Jackson, Margarita Frederico, Peter Lewis, Sue Anne Hunter

Development and experimentation of a programme, Family Project, for neglectful families: Lessons from research and practice

authors: Michèle Brousseau, Madeleine Beaudry, Marie Simard

Proving culture as resilience works: creating the evidence base

authors: Muriel Bamblett, Peter Lewis

An ecosystemic psychodynamic intervention for children with mild psychosocial problems and academic difficulties: prospects and limits of the evaluation process

authors: Elias E. Kourkoutas

Residential treatment, perceptions and experiences of young people admitted to a remedial treatment centre for young people with mild intellectual disabilities

authors: Xavier M.H. Moonen

Effectiveness of an intervention program focusing on the adoption of abused or neglected children: An outcome study

authors: Genevieve Pagé, Michel Carignan, Marie-Andrée Poirier, Sylvie Normandeau

Institutional routines as social training: Strategies in therapeutic residential care to normalize and re-integrate vulnerable children

authors: Tine Egelund, Turf Böcker Jakobsen

How to foster resilience: learning from outcomes of survivors life stories to foster development and growth of children out of home

authors: Marco Ius, Paola Milani

Children in care: severe troubles or resilience potentials?

authors: Anne-Dorthe Hestbaek, Mette Lausten

Listening to children: a journey through their well being, problems and needs

authors: Roberto Maurizio, Giorgia Salvadori

Young people leaving public care in the United Kingdom: experiences, outcomes and interventions

authors: Jim Wade

Working with the operators to cure deprived adolescents. The relations network clinical setting as an effectual therapeutical means working in complex psycho-social environments

authors: Francesca Codignola, Lucina Bergamaschi, Clorinda Da Pian, Teres

A psycho-educational treatment project for ill-treated and/or abused adolescents

authors: Angela Gesuè, Marilena Balatti, Orietta Bardi, Laura Carrà

The knowledge of educators’ intra-psychic dynamics like protective factors in educative intervention about children who are/live in residential care

authors: Alessandro Taurino, Paola Bastianoni, Licia Barrocu

The efficacy evaluation and cost-benefit analysis of the intervention towards troubled youth and its families: OIKOS Service

authors: Gian Piero Turchi, Angelo Mussoni, Elisa Michielin, Luisa Betto, Andrea Perno, Mara Rachela Scampoli

The educational support for parents of disabled students in a social integration: the experience of MIDA (a model for social integration of disabled students in a business organization)

authors: Roberta Caldin, Maria Rosa Cavalluzzo

Context. The integrated project between professional education and higher education was born to give greater support to disabled students enrolled in schools. This project also developed competencies for working and social integration of the involved peop

authors: Gianna Berligerio, Mario Chimenti, Carlo Hanau, Daniela Mariani Cerati, Nicola Panocchia

Paideia’s recreational activities: Evaluating informal experiences in bringing families together

authors: Fabrizio Serra, Federica Liscio

Counseling as support for families with deaf children

authors: Mariselda Tessarolo

Disabled people: levels of care/citizenship and types of care

authors: Ingrid Berto

Bottom-up Integration: a partnership between the Juvenile Offenders Unit of Offertasociale Community and the Regional Center for Juvenile Justice of the Ministry of Justice

authors: Elena Giudice

To link together personalization and efficacy working in justice

authors: Marilena Sinigaglia, Monia De Paoli

“Essere al mondo, mettere al mondo: una rete cha accoglie”: a network project to support families that are experiencing the parental status

authors: Maria Ferrante, Cristina Marchesini, Barbara Fava

Personalized plans considering both the needs of the person and the family. Results from a research with 15 families with children, and with multiple-problems

authors: Gianmaria Gioga, Monica Pivetti

Access regulation to human services. Recommendations on method and contents

authors: Elena Innocenti

Issue 3

Cover article

This issue is devoted to the international conference on outcome based evaluation on child and family services held in Padova (Italy) in 2008.

Seeking effective strategies

Problems such as child maltreatment, abuse, delinquent behaviour, social exclusion, problematic behaviours, deprivation and many others should be addressed. In the real world, on these topics, there are more problems than solutions, even if many people and different organizations have been dealing with researches on these themes for many years. For the conference, we chose to focus on the point of view of the children and parents in difficulty, living everyday in the conditions listed above. How could we do this? We considered these network an occasion for exchanging visions. 

 

Content

Family social work in the residential setting of the Otto Gerhard Heldring Stichting: is it relevant?

authors: Jelle Drost, Jana Knot-Dickscheit

Outcomes for youth in residential care vs. intensive in-home therapy: a propensity score analysis

authors: Richard P. Barth, Johanna Greeson, Shenyang Guo, Sarah Hurley, Jocelyn Sisson

Meeting the needs of children without parental care: a contemporary international policy analysis

authors: Jennifer C. Davidson

Emotional maltreatment in young Canadians: results of the second incidence study of reported child abuse and neglect (CIS-2)

authors: Claire Chamberland, Barbara Fallon, Tara Black, Nico Trocmé and Martin Chabot

Troubled and troublesome children: a challenge for professionals

authors: Helen Agathonos-Georgopoulou, Vivi Tsibouka, Angeliki Skoubourdi

Permanence in foster care: meanings and systems for planning and support

authors: Gillian Schofield

Foster care practice in Spain: an outcomes assessment approach

authors: Jorge F. del Valle, Mónica López, Amaia Bravo

Why foster care placements breakdown? A study into the factors influencing foster care placement breakdown in Flanders

authors: Johan Vanderfaeillie, Frank Van Holen, Sofie Coussens

Child-Parent contact in foster care situations

authors: Peter M. van den Bergh, Tonny (A.M.) Weterings

Secure residential treatment for juveniles with severe behavioural problems: what about its outcomes?

authors: Annemiek T. Harder, Erik J. Knorth, Margrite E. Kalverboer, Tjalling Zandberg

Effectiveness conditions in out-of-home placement of children and adolescents

authors: Laura Palareti, Chiara Berti, Francesca Emiliani

Outcomes for youth in residential care

authors: Robert M. Goerge, Andrew Zinn

Characteristics of severely troubled children, adolescents, and their families

authors: Tine Egelund, Mette Lausten

A case-control study of a representative sample of young adults who received child welfare services in Quebec during adolescence

authors: Eric Yergeau, Robert Pauzé and Jean Toupin

The transition to adulthood for young people leaving public care: developing an international research group and the challenges of comparative work

authors: Mike Stein, Emily Munro

Participation of children and young people living in institutional care

authors: Hélène Milova

Israeli youth in foster care: who are they and what do they need?

authors: Anat Zeira

Changing the tune from cannibal corpse, obituary and deicide: emotionally focused therapy with metal heads and their families

authors: Itzhak Lander

Health Promotion in Primary School: an experimental project in Veneto Region

authors: Elizabeth Mary Tamang Alessandro Mantovani, Martina Di Pieri, Rosanna Canova

The impact of schools counselling in managing troubled youngsters: understanding complexity in schools’ approaches to managing troubled youngsters by testing methods to capture synergy and mediatory factors

authors: Chris Warren-Adamson, Joy Warren-Adamson

The Internet as resource for working with youth at risk: Attitudes of normative and dropout adolescents towards using the Internet

authors: Shlomo Romi, Orit Mannor-Muldoon

Crisis nursery service outcomes for caregivers at multiple sites in Illinois

authors: Susan Cole, Pedro Hernandez

Background. Although crisis nursery services were developed in the early 1970’s to prevent child welfare placements, assessing the effects of their services for families and children presenting with specific problems has been elusive. The limited studies

authors: Wim De Mey

The transition process from kindergarten to primary school: a path towards risk reduction and resource potentiation of school age children

authors: Mara Manetti, Barry H. Schneider, Laura Frattini, Nadia Rania, Robert Coplan

How evidence based is the assessment of Intimate Partner Violence in child protection risk assessments? A cross national comparison

authors: Mary Ann Forgey, Mary Allen, Johna Hansen

Evaluation of care pathways for 0-6 children placed in residential care

authors: Paola Milani, Vera Da Rin, Cinzia Canali, Giorgia Zara, Claudio Roncoroni, Marco Ius, Paola Baglioni

Researching history of restraining practices in children’s residential care: methodological considerations

authors: Susanna Hoikkala

Developmental adjustment in adolescents growing up in childcare institutions in Romania

authors: Gabriela Misca

Designing with care: Interior design and residential child care

authors: Andrew Kendrick, Catherine Docherty

Process and outcomes of needs-led and family-focused child and youth care: preliminary findings in a programme evaluation

authors: Janneke Metselaar, Erik J. Knorth, Peter M. Van den Bergh

Multi-dimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC) for young offenders: comparing young people referred to MTFC in England and the USA

authors: Nina Biehal

Comparing youth outcomes for group care and treatment foster care: An application of propensity score matching

authors: Bethany Lee, Ron Thompson

Current trends in the use of residential child care: the legacy of a ‘last resort’ approach

authors: Ian Milligan

Do training programs work? Evaluation of the training Coping with Social Limits

authors: Anne-Marie N. Huyghen, Tjalling Zandberg, Johan Strijker

Process-outcome research with severe troubled children and their families in Flanders: pleading for a mixed-method model

authors: Bert Van Puyenbroeck, Gerrit Loots, Hans Grietens, Wolfgang Jacquet

New developments on intensive treatment for young conducted disordered youth in The Netherlands

authors: Leonieke Boendermaker

The concept “intensive special care” for troublesome children and young people: The Finnish case

authors: TPösö Tarja, Kekoni Taru, Kitinoja Manu

Promoting increased safeguarding of children London minority ethnic faith communities

authors: David Derbyshire

From competition to cooperation: the possibilities for reconnection engendered by a positive school climate

authors: Sibylle Artz, Diana Nicholson

Children’s vulnerability, institutional dependency and reintegration: a dialectic cultural response

authors: Barnabe D’Souza

Research pilot ‘schools and (ex-) criminal youngsters’. Integration of ex-delinquent juveniles in education

authors: Daan Wienke

The impact of Juvenile Justice interventions on young offenders in Spain

authors: Amaia Bravo, Maria Jesús Sierra, Jorge F. Del Valle

The programme for Social Adoption in Naples and Campania Regione

authors: Giuseppe Cirillo, Carmela Di Maio, Dora Artiaco, Paolo Siani

A local service for children and their families: resulats of four years of activity

authors: Teresa Bertotti

Family environment and parental stress in families of children affected by organic or psychological conditions

authors: Eleonora Maino, Donatella Fara, Massimo Molteni

Interventions for children with multiple needs: severity, effectiveness and costs

authors: Maria Bezze

How is the mental health situation of children receiving assistance from child welfare service?

authors: Anette Christine Iversen, Toril Havik, Reidar Jakobsen, Kjell Morten Stormark

Actualizing synergy in a community mental health system of care through assessing leadership collaboration

authors: Anita Lightburn

Negotiating welfare and mental health systems: The experience of former adolescent milieu residents over fifteen years

authors: Patricia McNamara

Domino 2 Project: individualized education support for parenting skills

authors: Luca Sommadossi, Silvana Rossi

A path to climb: resistances and curiosity for an innovative method

authors: Teresa Ammirati, Donatella Salerni

Time for Inclusion in the multicultural Europe: looking at Youth and Family from a comparative window

authors: Barbara Giovanna Bello

The role of the attachment theory in understanding “the need of family” owned by every child and in providing the right answer to this need

authors: Elisa Pajusco

Purpose. This presentation raises from the following question: “Why disturbed attachments damage so strongly human growth so that children, when becoming adults, look for the same type of disturbed attachment and source of suffer they experienced and got

authors: Sonia Saugo, Elena Dal Ben, Stefania Carollo, Alessandra Sartore, Chiara De Marchi, Elena Ferracin, Sonia Garzaro, Antonella Lagni, Gianna Thiella, Fabrizia Polo, Paola Milani

Families and children: a strategy for social assessment

authors: Carmen Prizzon

Instrument for divided and shared planning: the experience of the Regional Centre “I Girasoli” of Padua

authors: Andrea Frosi, Maria Elisa Antonioli, Paola Gandellini

From foster care to independent living. Qualitative micro-research on outcome evaluation of children’s permanence in a family-type residential setting

authors: Gianmaria Gioga, Sara Serbati

Multiprofessional intervention versus uniprofessional one: intensive treatment alternatives for adolescents with psychic and behavioural disease

authors: Michela Gatta, Riccardo Pertile, Paolo Testa, Lara Del Col, Giovanni Ceranto, Rosaria Sorgato, Luigi Bianchin, Antonio Condini

Facing with a new abandonment risk in centres for the right of visit and relationship

authors: Paola Dallanegra, Alessandro Selva, Irene Lozar, Giancarlo Galli, Diego Bissacco

The Project “Space for the Counselling of Teenagers and their Families”

authors: Patrizia Zanibon, Denise Rigoni

The way to adoption: five years follow-up (2002-2006). Results and criticalness

authors: Alessandra Moro, Federica Elmetti, Lisa Samassa

Issue 2

Cover article

This issue is devoted to the international conference on outcome based evaluation on child and family services held in Padova (Italy) in 2008.

Findings from research  and practice

Problems such as child maltreatment, abuse, delinquent behaviour, social exclusion, problematic behaviours, deprivation and many others should be addressed. In the real world, on these topics, there are more problems than solutions, even if many people and different organizations have been dealing with researches on these themes for many years. For the conference, we chose to focus on the point of view of the children and parents in difficulty, living everyday in the conditions listed above. How could we do this? We considered these network an occasion for exchanging visions. 

 

Content

Finding a path to the evidence: A research strategy for a therapeutic program

authors: Margarita Frederico, Annette Jackson, Carly Black

High-conflict parental divorce: children’s experiences

authors: Per Arne Rǿd

Adapting, manualizing and evaluating an evidence based CBT Group of intervention for youth with depressive symptoms for delivery in school-based settings

authors: Mary C. Ruffolo, Daniel Fischer, Sarah Fraley, Kristy Postlewaite, Shannon Hill, Dave Neal

Evaluation of the outcomes of secure accommodation in Scotland

authors: Andrew Kendrick, Moira Walker, Aileen Barclay and Lynne Hunter

Barrier to treatment in Shenzhen, China: a qualitative study on the experiences of Chinese families facing eating disorders

authors: Joyce L.C. Ma, Xu Wen Yan, Chen Xiangyi

Outcomes assessment in residential care: a long term evaluation

authors: Jorge F. Del Valle, Amaia Bravo

Parenting support within Child and Family. Evolution towards more evidence-based services

authors: Benedikte Van den Bruel

The reluctant role of the Federal Government in Child Welfare in the United States

authors: John Sciamanna

Reforming Child Protection Systems: policy considerations from an Australian perspective

authors: Robyn Miller, Chris Asquini

Contextual practice in residential care: the Cano projects

authors: Hans Grietens

Working with the family-context of young people in residential care

authors: Esther M.W. Geurts, Erik J. Knorth, Marc J. Noom

Changing directions for challenging children and their families

authors: Wendy Rose, Jane Aldgate

Family reunification of adolescents placed in foster care: intervention and research perspectives

authors: Marie-Claude Simard

Longitudinal research in parenting stress and behavioural problems in foster care

authors: Johan Vanderfaeillie, Frank Van Holen, Lenny Trogh

Agreement between foster child and foster parent in the severity of problem behaviour

authors: Johan Strijker, Simon Oijen

The US adoption and foster care analysis and reporting system and cross-national research on foster care

authors: Robin Spath

First results from the translation, implementation and researching of the Webster-Stratton incredible years (iy) basic parenting programme in Portugal

authors: Maria Filomena Gaspar, Maria João Seabra-Santos

Background. In Portugal the awareness of the potential of the delivery of parenting programmes as a promotion, prevention and intervention strategy to improve children well-being is growing, both at governmental and local services levels. The use of paren

authors: Kristien Lacluyse, Hans Grietens, Walter Hellinckx

Long-term effectiveness of the parenting support program Home-Start

authors: Anna H. Rutgers, Peter J. Hoffenaar, Jessica J. Asscher, Maja Deković and Jo M. A. Hermanns

Working with parents of troubled and troublesome young people at risk of care

authors: Nina Biehal

Mapping the impact of children’s advocacy services

authors: Andrew Pithouse

Foster care and sense of belonging: the voices of the children of the foster families

authors: Barbara Ongari

How do children fare in care: a longitudinal study of outcomes

authors: Elizabeth Fernandez

Pluridisabled child and his/her family in care. Autobiographical accounts of families about quality of social and health services and participated construction of an early care model

authors: Roberta Caldin, Paola Milani, Simone Visentin

Issue 1

Cover article

This issue is devoted to the international conference on outcome based evaluation on child and family services held in Padova (Italy) in 2008.

EXPLORING THE LANDSCAPE OF  'EVIDENCE-BASED' INTERVENTIONS

Problems such as child maltreatment, abuse, delinquent behaviour, social exclusion, problematic behaviours, deprivation and many others should be addressed. In the real world, on these topics, there are more problems than solutions, even if many people and different organizations have been dealing with researches on these themes for many years. For the conference, we chose to focus on the point of view of the children and parents in difficulty, living everyday in the conditions listed above. How could we do this? We considered these network an occasion for exchanging visions. 

 

 

 

Content

Exploring the landscape of ‘evidence-based’ interventions for ‘deep-end’ children and their families: how do we know ‘what works’ and how do we make more of it available?

authors: James K. Whittaker

Services for difficult children and youth: innovations and evaluations

authors: Augusto Palmonari

Emotional well-being and mental health of looked after children in the UK

authors: Colette McAuley

Discerning European perspectives on evidence-based interventions for vulnerable children and their families

authors: Hans Grietens

Mental health disorders of youth in foster care and foster care alumni in the United States

authors: Peter J. Pecora

Is there a future for residential youth care and treatment? Messages from research

authors: Erik J. Knorth

Globalization and child welfare: lessons from a cross-national study of children in out-of-home care

authors: June Thoburn

Moving from a general to a personalised model for the evaluation of outcomes: Perspectives from international research

authors: Tiziano Vecchiato